Job summary
- Main area
- Neonatal
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 208-6257DB-26-1
- Employer
- Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Grimsby/Scunthorpe base to be agreed
- Town
- Grimsby
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Neonatal Ward Clinical Sister
Band 7
Job overview
A very exciting opportunity has arisen for experienced registered neonatal nurses to join our substantial and supportive team. Our Grimsby & Scunthorpe Neonatal Units are creating a team of Band 7 Clinical Sister’s to provide expert leadership and coordination skills required to maintain our units.
Humber Health Partnership has well established neonatal units within the Yorkshire and Humber Neonatal Network. This opportunity relates to Neonatal Service of the two neonatal units in Grimsby and Scunthorpe. Grimsby comprises of 3 Intensive Care, 1 High Dependency, 8 Special Care and 4 Transitional Care. Scunthorpe comprises of 2 Intensive Care, 2 High Dependency, 6 Special Care and 4 Transitional Care. Both units provide a high quality service to the network and beyond.
Positions available at both Scunthorpe and Grimsby sites, The successful applicants will be expected to ideally work a good mix of day and night shifts.
Face-to-face interviews to be carried out.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for highly motivated and dynamic Neonatal Nurses who can provide clinical expertise in the delivery of specialist care to neonates and their families.
We aim for clinical excellence and are looking for enthusiastic, highly motivated applicants with experience within neonatal speciality and must hold a mentorship qualification.
We would expect that any applicants would share our values of being honest, respectful and compassionate. The successful applicants will play a vital role within the team in both staff and service development. You will be expected to co-ordinate care on a daily basis and deputise for the senior sister in her absence. Participation in audits, benchmarking and undertaking some managerial responsibilities will also be a vital part to this role. You will need to demonstrate excellent communication skills and be able to provide a supportive culture for teamwork and learning.
Working for our organisation
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website at https://join.humberhealthpartnership.nhs.uk/
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“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.
Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.
Person specification
Education & Qualification
Essential criteria
- • Registered Nurse - Child or Adult Branch or registered Midwife
- • Qualification in Speciality – Neonatology 405 or equivalent
- • Mentorship preparation programme or equivalent e.g. 997 / 998, or on live register of mentors
- • Evidence of professional self-development
- • Degree or equivalent level of education or equivalent experience.
- • Competent in the use on standard IT packages and the aptitude to learn how to use new IT systems,
Desirable criteria
- • Evidence of further study/knowledge at master’s level or equivalent.
- • Recognised leadership qualification or equivalent experience
- • Evidence of commitment to continuous learning and application in practice.
- • Newborn Life Support Instructor
Application Completion
Essential criteria
- ALL sections of application form FULLY completed
Knowledge, Training & Experience
Essential criteria
- • Understanding of Information Governance and Confidentiality
- • Safeguarding children’s training level 3.
- • Newborn Life Support course certification
- • Ability to support and lead the team in complex and challenging clinical situations
- • Use leadership skills to direct the team in the provision of safe care, informed by clinical information and evidence
- • Minimum of 2 years Qualified in Speciality and shift co-ordination experience
- • Experience in managing a team and individuals to achieve positive outcomes
- • Experience of working in an MDT and across organisational and professional boundaries
- • Excellent/exceptional interpersonal and communication skills (Emotional intelligence)
- • Use evidence-based knowledge to critique the technical skills of all team members and manage gaps that could impact safe service delivery
- • Exercise professional judgement and clinical credibility gained from a range of experience obtained within the intensive care environment.
- • Evaluate their knowledge of policies, procedures and processes which influence decision-making and impact safe service delivery
- • Work collaboratively with the team and line manager to ensure that policies and strategies support service users, their families, and staff when making decisions
- • Critically apply learning from national reports to your area of practice, including benchmarking activities
Desirable criteria
- • Awareness of budgeting / resource management.
- • Experience of involvement in Quality Improvement.
- • Experience of involvement in policy development.
- • Coaching and counselling skills
- • Comprehensive knowledge of the NHS national/local targets and priorities
- • Recruitment and Selection, Appraisal and other relevant HR/People management training
- • Management Development Training
- • Facilitate time for reflection and learning to encourage and support others to make realistic self-assessments of their knowledge and skills, so that the right person is in the right place at the right time to deliver safe and effective care
Communication and Interpersonal Skills
Essential criteria
- • Ability to understand the impact of your behaviours as a leader on the experience and wellbeing of colleagues
- • To possess a critical awareness of your personal impact on staff
- • Advocate and promote a culture which rewards positive behaviour.
- • Ability to create a culture where psychological safety and quality improvement is achieved and maintained in a well led service
- • Foster collaboration to enable the team to engage in decision-making
- • Promote a psychologically safe environment where team members are encouraged to raise concerns and share learning.
- • Identify and act when behaviour does not align with, or undermines the principles of equality, diversity and civility.
- • Apply conflict resolution skills to de-escalate and resolve challenging conversations
- • Critically evaluate own role in creating and mitigating conflict
- • Lead compassionately to find solutions to resolve distress for staff and service users.
- • Formulate your own personal development plan reflecting feedback from others
- • Prioritise confident, communication skills as a leader during an emergency, while maintaining a calm approach
- • Clearly articulate to the MDT their roles in an emergency
- • Be approachable, trustworthy, and professional to foster effective and kind communication with the team and service users
- • Use hot debriefs to create opportunities for immediate learning from emergencies.
Desirable criteria
- • Appraise and implement the principles of human factors when leading the MDT.
- • Understand the key principles of human factors and their impact on service delivery.
Special Attributes and other
Essential criteria
- • Excellent time management and organisation skills
- • Role model the values of the organisation to reflect kindness, trustworthiness, and approachability.
- • Proactively seek out opportunities to improve own knowledge and skills to remain effective in the role of clinical sister.
- • Use audit to measure, appraise and interpret data on service users’ experiences and feedback
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Taylor
- Job title
- Grimsby Neonatal Ward Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03033 304780
- Additional information
Sarah Soulby
Scunthorpe Neonatal Ward Manager
03033 302314
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