Lead Nurse/Midwife for Neonatal Transitional Care

The overriding purpose is to support the provision of the highest quality patient care through personal actions and continuous improvement.

To work as the Lead Nurse, to lead and work alongside the ward leaders in providing high standards of holistic transitional care, ensuring that it is evidence based and compliant with best practice recommendations for transitional care services (TC.)

The Neonatal Transitional Care Lead plays a pivotal role in delivering and leading high-quality, safe, and compassionate care for newborns who require additional support at birth but do not need admission to a neonatal unit. This includes babies with needs such as temperature regulation, feeding support, treatment for jaundice or hypoglycaemia, or those exposed to maternal substance use.

The post-holder will lead the development and coordination of the transitional care service, working closely with maternity, neonatal, and community teams to ensure seamless, family-centred care that keeps mothers and babies together wherever clinically appropriate.

To inspire a shared sense of purpose

Provide clinical leadership

Support the provision of the service and service delivery

Infant feeding support

Role related risk management

Involvement in training and education

Multidisciplinary Liaison

Resource/management planning

Responsibility for patient care

Policy and service development and implementation

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re’s never been a more exciting time to join TeamQEH. We’re working on a once in a generation opportunity to build a new state-of-the-art hospital due to open in 2031/32 and we are also carrying out on one of the biggest pieces of digital transformation work we’ve ever undertaken.

Our new electronic patient record (EPR) will replace paper-based patient records from 2026 and will lead to better, safer, joined-up care at The Queen Elizabeth Hospital and beyond.

At The QEH we provide a comprehensive range of specialist, acute, obstetrics and community-based services to around 331,000 people across west and north Norfolk, North Cambs and South Lincs.

We are an ambitious organisation that upholds our values of kindness, wellness and fairness. We strive for continuous quality improvement, recently demonstrated in our 2024 CQC maternity inspection rating our services as ‘Good’, and we are proud to be a place to learn and grow through recognised learning and apprenticeships.

We recognise and reward our 4,000 staff and volunteers, priding ourselves on a community atmosphere and positive team spirit. We have approx. 530 beds across 33 wards and have newly built education and training facilities, a range of modern award-winning centres alongside a talented team of people ready to give you a warm welcome. We love working here and think you will too.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Catherine Hood Job title: Brancaster Ward Manager Em

ail address: catherine.hood@qehkl.nhs.uk Telephone number: 01553613710