Neonatal Transitional Care Ward Manager


Company:	University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Salary:	£49,387 - £56,515 pro rata pa
Hours:	Part-time
Location:	Derby, DE22 3NE
Job type:	Contract
Posting date:	23 Jul 2026
Closing date:	22 Aug 2026

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Summary

A Vacancy at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust.

We are seeking an experienced Neonatal Nurse to join our team as a Neonatal Transitional Care Ward Manager (Cross Site) on a 12-month secondment, within Neonatal Services at University Hospitals of Derby and Burton.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced neonatal nurse to provide operational and clinical leadership for Transitional Care services across both Derby and Burton sites.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality, family-centred care, supporting mothers and babies to remain together whenever clinically appropriate.

As Ward Manager, you will lead and develop the Transitional Care workforce, oversee service delivery across both sites, and drive quality improvement initiatives to ensure safe, effective and evidence-based care. This role offers an excellent opportunity to influence service development and contribute to the ongoing enhancement of neonatal and postnatal pathways across UHDB.

The successful applicant will be professionally responsible for the leadership and management of Neonatal Transitional Care across UHDB, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, family-centred care for mothers and babies.

The role includes oversight of day-to-day ward operations, workforce management, clinical governance, and staff development, while supporting pathways that enable babies requiring additional neonatal care to remain with their mothers whenever clinically appropriate.

The post holder will also lead service development and quality improvement initiatives, working collaboratively with maternity, neonatal and multidisciplinary colleagues across both sites to enhance patient experience and outcomes.

Applicants must hold current NMC registration, a recognised neonatal qualification in speciality, and significant post-registration neonatal experience at Band 6 or 7 level, with evidence of recent clinical leadership and management responsibility.

Closing date of applications: 06th August 2026

Interview date: 20th August 2026

As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together

Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.

In return we will offer:

• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development

• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.

• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes

Key Facts:

• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.

• We are the 4thbusiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.

• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.

• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.

• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.

• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.

• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.

• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.

If you are considering applying for an internal secondment, pleaseensureyou have discussed this with your line manager and obtained their supportpriorto submitting your application.

Please be aware that there isno guaranteethat you will be released from your substantive post, so you should seek approvalbeforeapplying as you are applying or aSecondment.

If you have any questions or require further guidance, please contact the Recruitment Team.

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UHDB is committed to fair and transparent recruitment. We welcome authentic applications that reflect your own skills, experience and motivations for the role. While we understand that candidates may use AI tools for grammar, formatting or accessibility purposes, applications that appear to be substantially AI‑generated may be subject to additional review. If this applies to your submission, we will let you know and may ask for clarification. Please ensure your application accurately represents your experience and is written in your own words.

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This advert closes on Thursday 6 Aug 2026

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