Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
Neonatal Junior Sister / Charge Nurse
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Band 6 Junior Sister/Charge Nurse – Neonatal Unit
25.87 hours per week | Permanent | Based at Frimley Park Hospital
Are you an experienced Neonatal Nurse looking to take the next step in your career? We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate, motivated, and enthusiastic nurse to join our dedicated Neonatal team at Frimley Park Hospital in a senior leadership role.
Our Neonatal Unit is committed to delivering outstanding, evidence-based care with a strong focus on clinical excellence, developmental care, and family integrated care to achieve the very best outcomes for babies and their families.
We are seeking a Band 6 Junior Sister/Charge Nurse to become part of our friendly and supportive leadership team. Working alongside the Matron for Neonatal Services, Senior Sister, and fellow Junior Sisters, you will play a key role in providing visible leadership, supporting staff development, and helping to maintain the highest standards of neonatal care.
This role offers an excellent opportunity to further develop your leadership skills within a progressive and compassionate neonatal service, while making a meaningful difference to the lives of babies and their families every day.
If you are committed to high-quality neonatal care and thrive in a collaborative team environment, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
Frimley Park Neonatal Unit are seeking a Junior Sister/Charge Nurse to join our friendly leadership team. The team is led by Matron for Neonatal services and a Senior Sister. You will join a team of Junior Sisters to help provide strong leadership within the Neonatal team.
You will be expected to lead shifts, provide skilled nursing care, undertake appraisals, sickness management and other management duties. You will also work alongside the Practice Development Nurse to ensure the junior team achieve competencies and professional development.
We are actively involved in the neonatal network and participate in several working groups to standardise and improve care. We also have a close working relationship with the Neonatal Unit at Wexham Park Hospital and are aiming to align policies and procedures cross site to facilitate this.
You must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills required for this position as stated in the job description. You will be pro-active in the unit’s development, have a keen interest in the development of others, and be able to demonstrate ongoing professional development and up to date knowledge.
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Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC Registration.
- Registered RN/RN child, RM or RSCN.
- Neonatal specialist training ENB 405 or equivalent.
- Children’s safeguarding training level 2.
Desirable criteria
- NLS qualification
- Children’s safeguarding training level 3
Experience
Essential criteria
- Clinical practice in Neonatal nursing experience.
- Neonatal Toolkit experience.
Desirable criteria
- Management experience
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Computer literacy and numeracy.
- Teaching Skills.
- Clinical Audit Skills.
- Evidence of leadership skills.
- Knowledge of current issues in Neonatology.
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of specific needs of local population.
- Neonatal networks.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT)
FHFT is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.
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Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
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