Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Prescot, L35 5DRView on map(opens Google Maps in a new tab)
Salary
£57,528 to £64,750
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Not specified
Closing date
25 October 2026
6 days leftJob description
Women's and Children's Division Paediatrics Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner Band 8a Full Time / 1.0 WTE An exciting opportunity has arisen for an...
This role also offers the opportunity to work across an integrated pathway of care. Our 4-bed Transitional Care Service helps babies remain with their mothers on the postnatal wards, avoiding unnecessary separation wherever possible. Our Children's Hospital at Home Team supports babies and families in the community, including those requiring home oxygen or ongoing care. Close collaboration with midwifery colleagues ensures that babies on the postnatal wards receive safe, responsive and high-quality care.As a key member of the multidisciplinary team, you will have the opportunity to influence practice, develop and deliver education, lead unit-based initiatives and make a visible contribution to service improvement, research and innovation.This is an exciting time to join the service. Our vision is to expand the current workforce and develop a seven-day ANNP rota. You will receive protected time to develop and demonstrate all four pillars of advanced practice, enabling you to grow professionally while helping to shape a modern, sustainable neonatal service.A comprehensive induction and supportive mentoring programme will be provided, giving you the confidence and foundation to thrive in the role.
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
o Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
o Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
o National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Qualifications
Essential
- RSCN/RN Child
- Evidence of life-long learning
- Degree in Advanced Clinical Nursing, Preferably Paediatric or Neonatal Advanced Clinical Practice
- APLS / PLS / NLS certified
- Independent Nurse Prescriber
- Level 3 safeguarding children training
- Masters Degree in advanced Clinical Nursing Practice
Desirable: - Teaching qualification or equivalent experience; - Management qualification; - APLS / NLS instructor; - RN (adult); - Critical care qualification
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
- Significant years recent relevant experience in acute/community paediatrics or Neonates (Annex 21)
- Able to recognise and implement appropriate management to a critically ill child / neonate
- Demonstrate ability to lead and develop nursing practice and promote excellence in clinical practice
- Evidence of multidisciplinary / multi-agency working
- Evidence of change management experience
- Safeguarding Children experience and sound working knowledge of and ability to implement the Safeguarding and Child in Need agenda.
- Ability to develop fully staff potential through facilitating training, development and education initiatives.
- Working knowledge of all components of clinical governance, including risk management, audit, research, clinical standards, policies, protocols, education, training and human resources
- Clinical credibility and expert specialist knowledge of children's and neonatal nursing
- Working knowledge of current national and local legislation/guidance / NSFs / policies in health, professional nursing issues and children's services agenda
- Advanced knowledge and skills to initiate and evaluate research based practice
- Ability to influence and work together with multidisciplinary / multi-agency teams at a strategic / senior operational level
- Ability to lead and develop nursing practice and promote excellence in clinical practice
Desirable: - Children's ITU or HDU experience for APNP; - Audit experience
Skills
Essential
- Demonstrate ability to practise advanced clinical skills
- Clinical assessment, planning and management skills, able to case manage, including ordering and interpreting investigations and prescribing (if completed NMP)
- Effective communication skills
Our Values
Essential: - We are Kind; - We are Open; - We are Inclusive
How to apply
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Provenance
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First seen
9 October 2026
Last checked
9 October 2026
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