Staff Nurse - Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

We are excited to invite a compassionate and dedicated Staff Nurse to join our dynamic Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) team in March 2025. This is a great opportunity to make a meaningful impact in neonatal nursing, working within one of the most respected NICUs in the South West.

Why Join Us?

Our NICU is a Level 3 Tertiary Centre, one of only three in the South West neonatal network, where we provide expert care for babies with complex needs, including respiratory, surgical, neurological, and cardiac conditions, as well as pre-term and full-term infants. We are deeply committed to delivering outstanding family-centred care, ensuring the best outcomes for our babies and their families.

Our Mission:

We strive to create an environment that promotes teamwork, learning, and research, upholding a culture of openness, honesty, and mutual respect. We work closely with families, recognising the importance of empowering parents to take an active role in their baby’s care, providing tailored support, information, and guidance. Respecting the dignity and privacy of every family we care for is at the heart of everything we do.

Main duties of the job

• Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate prescribed treatment and care for patients and their families 
• Communicate effectively and maintain confidentiality with patient’s carers and the multi disciplinary team 
• Act as a professional role model setting standards of practice
• Promote clinical effectiveness and opportunities for teaching junior colleagues and students
• Promote and maintain a safe environment for patients. 
• Administer medicines in accordance with Trust policy. 
• Develop clinical skills and participate in continuous professional development 
• Provide accurate timely contemporary records of care and treatment in line with Trust record keeping policy and NMC

At this time, we are unable to support nurses or midwives who require OSCE to register with the NMC UK. Unfortunately, such applications will not be considered

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Join us and you will benefit from: 

• 8-12 weeks supernumerary period dependent on experience 
• Indepth induction programme. 
• Excellent training and development opportunities. We run the QIS (Qualified in Specialty) course in Bristol in partnership with University of West of England. 
• Newborn Individualized Developmental Care and Assessment Program (NIDCAP) trained nurses who are part of the Family and Infant Neurodevelopmental Education (FINE) faculty, providing FINE training to the multi-disciplinary team. 
• Support from our in-house Education team and SIM training
• Phillips ICCA system for all monitoring, prescribing and documentation. 

We support flexible and part-time working. 

St Michaels Hospital is located in the heart of vibrant Bristol – a beautiful city bursting with character and providing many opportunities to achieve a true work-life balance. 

For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• RSCN Part 8/RN (Child branch, part 15) or RN qualification
• Current NMC Registration

Desirable criteria

• Post Basic Certificate or related study in Neonatal Critical Care
• 1st Degree in Nursing or health related subject or working towards

Skills

Essential criteria

• Demonstrate competence in clinical skills relevant to the clinical area
• Good interpersonal and communication skills, able to communicate effectively with patients, carers and MDT
• Computer skills
• Competence in calculations for safe administration of medicines/fluids
• Ability to initiate and ensure appropriate action in response to the deteriorating patient
• Clinical decision making ability
• Ability to work with minimum supervision
• Act in a professional manner
• Self motivated
• A team player
• Recognition of own limits

Desirable criteria

• Teaching/supervisory skills

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Broad knowledge and experience of clinical nursing practice within a hospital environment
• Interest in the clinical area

Desirable criteria

• Neonatal experience
• Experience of teaching

What We Offer:

You’ll be joining a highly skilled and experienced multidisciplinary team (MDT), comprising nurses, nursery nurses, medics, consultants, and allied healthcare professionals. Our team is united by a shared philosophy: working together with families to provide high-quality, individualised care in a supportive environment.

We are dedicated to ongoing professional development, offering a wide range of opportunities, including university-accredited courses and in-house training for specialist roles.