# Lead Nurse- Neonatology

**Company**: Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: £75,328 to £86,114 a year pa Inclusive
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Are you an experienced and inspiring nurse leader ready to shape the future of neonatal care? We are seeking a Band 8b Lead Nurse to lead our neonatal services across two sites: the Level 2 unit at St Mary's Hospital (SMH) and the Level 3 unit at Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea Hospital (QCCH).

This is a unique opportunity to make a lasting difference to babies, families and teams while delivering safe, high-quality and family-centred care.

We are looking for a credible, compassionate leader with substantial leadership experience. Neonatal expertise is welcomed, but experience gained in high-dependency or other acute clinical settings may also be highly transferable.

You will join a supportive, ambitious and high-performing Directorate where your ideas, expertise and leadership will have real influence. With responsibility across two distinct neonatal units, you will enjoy a varied and rewarding portfolio, work alongside committed multidisciplinary teams and help shape improvements for babies, families and staff. This role will suit a collaborative leader who is energised by challenge, values innovation and wants to make a visible difference.

**Main duties of the job**

- Provide a visible, credible and authoritative nursing leadership presence across both sites

- Champion responsive, compassionate and consistently high-quality neonatal care aligned with national and Trust priorities

- Shape service development, quality improvement and workforce planning across the neonatal pathway

- Create an inclusive culture that supports staff engagement, wellbeing, retention and professional development

- Provide strong oversight of clinical governance, service performance, financial management and operational efficiency

- Work in partnership with the senior triumvirate to deliver strategic priorities and Trust-wide nursing and midwifery ambitions

- Lead neonatal governance and support the effective delivery of the Patient Safety Incident Response Framework (PSIRF)

**Benefits**

- Career development, flexible working and wellbeing

- Staff recognition scheme

- Optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities

**About us** At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

## Skills

### Required
- neonatal care
- leadership
- management
- quality improvement
- clinical governance

### Nice to have
- Master's degree in a relevant subject area
- Management course/qualification
- Patient Safety Incident Response Framework

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