About the role
Job Description
NHS Band 5: £32,073 - £39,043 pro rata per annum
Hours Per Week: Full time 37.5
Contract Type: Permanent
Are you ready to take the next steps in your neonatal career?
Portsmouth Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit are excited to have vacancies for experienced neonatal nurses who are Qualified in Speciality.
Would you like to be part of a neonatal team who works tirelessly, to provide comprehensive, compassionate, individualised care and support to our babies and their families, which are then realised in the outstanding outcomes we achieve for our babies as positive outliers for NNAP (2025).
As a team, we have a clear vision for our future, to ensure we offer all staff the best opportunities within their career, and we are here to support and encourage you to develop expand your experience and knowledge of neonatal care. We would welcome applications from experienced neonatal nurses, ideally from a level 3 unit, however we would provide support and training to any QIS nurses.
We are a proud tertiary neonatal intensive care unit, currently working towards stage 3 BFI accreditation, having previously achieved Bliss Accreditation.
As a neonatal nurse in Portsmouth, you would experience caring for some of the most extreme premature babies and delivering complex and pioneering medical care, including total body cooling, HFOV, Nitric Oxide Therapy and Laser ROP.
You will also have access to extended role development in retrieval and neonatal life support, alongside rotational opportunities in Neonatal Outreach, Family Integrated Care, Infant feeding, Education and Research teams.
Please refer to the Job description for further details
Qualifications
Essential
• Current registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration qualifications
• BSc Degree in relevant field
• Evidence of recent CPD
• Post Reg. qualifications for specialty area (QIS)
Desirable
• Experience in a critical/high care environment in an acute care setting
• Computer literate, knowledge of patient administration system
• Managing resources and contributing to departmental budget
• Evidence of developing policy, guidelines and managing resources
• An awareness of research and evidence based practice relevant to clinical area
Additional Information
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
For more information, please see our People and OD Strategy 2026
Smoke Free Policy:
All of our hospitals operate a strict no smoking policy. Smoking cigarettes or tobacco products is not allowed on any of the grounds or in any of the buildings run by us. This applies to patients, staff, carers and visitors to Trust premises.
Our goal is to improve the health and wellbeing of everyone we care for and, by making sure that our NHS services are smoke-free, we benefit the health of people who use our services as well as the health of the people who work for us.