Job summary
As a small island service, the Jersey Neonatal Unit offers a uniquely active and rewarding clinical environment. With an 8-bed capacity and around 80 admissions per year, the unit provides an outstanding opportunity to develop and refine your skills across the full spectrum of neonatal care through structured rotation, building confidence and versatility within a cohesive, supportive team.

Take your neonatal expertise to the next level and lead with purpose in delivering exceptional care to newborns and their families. Make a difference from day one and step into a role where your expertise, compassion, and leadership will truly matter.

This is your opportunity to join our dedicated team at Health & Care Jersey Services and step into a role where you will be at the front of neonatal care supporting babies with a wide range of conditions, guiding families through emotional journeys, and coordinating a multidisciplinary team to ensure the highest standards of safety and support. Our Neonatal Coordinator team of senior neonatal Nurses/Midwives/ODPs/Paramedics makes a lasting difference in the lives of newborns and their families.

Main duties of the job
You will be proud to lead by example, mentoring colleagues and advocating for the most vulnerable patients. Make your scope of impact both wide and deeply meaningful, ensuring clinical excellence, safeguarding, service development, and even neonatal transfers to UK tertiary centres, for which you will receive full training and support.

Be part of a team that thrives on collaboration, compassion, and continuous learning. You will work alongside paediatricians, consultants, social workers, and emergency transfer teams, all united by a shared commitment to delivering the highest standard of family care.

If you are ready to bring your skills, heart, and leadership to a role that truly matters this is your opportunity to be part of something extraordinary.

About us
Across the Jersey Public Service, the scope of our work means our people enjoy a wide range of opportunitiesworking with recognised experts across teams, learning new skills, and developing their careers. We actively seek to recruit people from different backgrounds with diverse perspectives, creating a richer, more varied environment where youre exposed to new ideas, new ways of thinking, and new opportunities to build an exciting and rewarding career.

To maintain the highest standards of public service, we have a rigorous screening process, to ensure candidates align with our values, skills, and professional requirements. This helps us create a trusted, capable workforce that can deliver excellence and safeguard our community.

For regulated activity roles (working with children and adults at risk of harm), an enhanced level of screening will be conducted to include enhanced DBS checks.

Extraordinary, every day.

Job responsibilities
Job Description
The full Job Description for this role is linked to this advertisement. Please see the attached link.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• Proven post registration experience in Neonatal Practice
• Experience of taking the lead with babies with complex needs.

Desirable

• Evidence of leadership, evidence of effective staff coordination, and running a ward/department.

Qualifications
Essential

• NMC registered - Nursing and / or Midwifery degree / equivalent
• Neonatal life support
• Neonatal speciality qualification
• Safeguarding L3 qualification

Desirable

• Clinical skills qualifications e.g. BFI, cannulation & venepuncture
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Leadership course

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).