About this role
Job summary
Are you an experienced neonatal nurse looking for a new challenge? This role offers the opportunity to provide visible and accessible leadership, ensuring the highest quality patient experience while upholding NMC standards and Trust policies. You will play a key part in supporting staff morale and fostering a positive learning environment, helping neonatal teams identify and implement improvements in patient care. The post involves delivering and facilitating teaching, practice development, and professional learning for both nursing and medical staff, while offering ongoing professional guidance and support. You will champion innovation in care, contribute to the development and auditing of clinical guidelines, and work closely with the management team and neonatal nurses to ensure strong governance, training, and education processes across the unit.
Main duties of the job
As a Neonatal Practice Development Nurse, you will provide visible, supportive leadership that enhances the quality of care and strengthens staff confidence across the neonatal unit. Your role will focus on developing the clinical skills, knowledge, and competencies of nursing and medical staff through high-quality teaching, practice development, and professional learning initiatives. You will work closely with the management team to uphold excellent patient experience, support governance processes, and ensure robust training and education systems are in place. Key responsibilities include guiding staff in identifying and improving standards of care, offering expert professional advice, supporting innovation in clinical practice, and contributing to the development, implementation, and auditing of clinical guidelines. To succeed in this role, you will need strong leadership skills, advanced neonatal clinical expertise, excellent communication abilities, a commitment to education and professional development, and the ability to inspire confidence while maintaining high visibility and accessibility within the clinical environment.
About us
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
Job description Job responsibilities
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust
Person Specification
Demonstrate experience at a Neonatal band 6 role Essential
Valid NMC Registration Demonstrate experience at a Neonatal band 6 role MENTORSHIP COURSE (PRACTICE ASSESSOR / SUPERVISOR COURSE)
Desirable
Leadership&Management course EXPERIENCE IN CLINICAL TEACHING / EDUCATION
NEONATAL BAND 7 EXPERIENCE Desirable
evidence of neonatal band 7 experience
Audit/research experince Essential
Evidence of Audit/research experience
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address Neonatal Unit, Basildon
Nether Mayne, Basildon, SS16 5NL
Basildon
SS16 5NL
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.mse.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)