Job Description

As the Neonatal Matron you must take overall responsibility in the management and leadership of the Neonatal Department. As a registered, accountable and autonomous nurse you must act in the best interests of your patients at all times and take personal responsibility for your actions and decisions. You will be responsible for patient assessment, diagnosis, planning of care, giving and supervising safe and compassionate care, and evaluating the effectiveness of care in the neonatal unit.



Provide expert advice on all matters relating to neonatal care.

Work with the lead Band 7 Nurses to ensure a consistent approach to neonatal nursing across all areas of responsibility, through collaborative working and the development of shared procedures and guidelines, supervising the audit of practice development and the implementation of action plans.

Work with the Lead Nurse to ensure that continuous quality improvement programmes are in place, working collaboratively with the Directorate of Nursing in the delivery clinical benchmarks.

Ensure that nursing practices comply with Trust policy, procedures and guidelines.

Act as an advocate for critically ill neonates and their families as appropriate; particularly when informed discussion may lead to choices being made concerning treatment options.

Collaborate with other health, education and social agencies to facilitate the best outcome for the neonate and their family.

Ensure effective discharge planning for all patients within areas of responsibility, through timely planning by multi-disciplinary team members and appropriate use of community services.

Work with the Band 7 Infant feeding lead to ensure ongoing compliance to Unicef Baby Friendly standards and support any future development of this service.



Provide professional role modelling to lead and inspire the professional development of neonatal care.



Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.



We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have aroundt 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.



We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We believe working here is rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday inclusive of bank holidays (pro rata) and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.



Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything: easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting www.experiencesalisbury.co.uk .



Please see the attached job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities