Job overview

Neonatal Practice Development Nurse
Fixed-term contract: 1 year | 30 hours per week

We are delighted to offer an exciting opportunity for a Neonatal Practice Development Nurse to join our dynamic Neonatal Unit at Frimley Health.

This rewarding role will place you at the heart of education and professional development within neonatal care. You will play a key role in inspiring, supporting, and developing pre- and post-registration staff, including student nurses, nursing associates, newly registered nurses undertaking preceptorship, and staff completing the QIS course.

Working collaboratively with the Paediatric and Neonatal Education Team, you will help create and sustain a high-quality learning environment, delivering innovative, neonate-specific education that supports excellence in clinical practice. This is a fantastic opportunity to shape future neonatal practitioners, influence standards of care, and make a meaningful difference to staff development across the service.

If you are passionate about neonatal education, professional development, and fostering a culture of learning, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• To work in neonates supporting pre and post registration staff in clinical practice, developing the vision of education within the department. 
• To line manager junior members of the education team as agreed with Matron Education Paediatrics and Neonates.
• To act as an active lead, linking between the clinical area and the Paediatric/Neonatal Education team. 
• To be an active lead, support pre and post registration learners in the clinical setting. 
• To ensure that the learning environment is suitable to pre-registration learners, their practice supervisors and assessors.

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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