Neonatal ICU Nurses >
Description.
Provide specialist, high-acuity nursing care for critically ill and premature newborns in Neonatal Intensive Care Units, delivering ventilatory support, complex monitoring, and family-centred care within advanced neonatal services.
Key Requirements.
Experience.
NMC-registered Children’s Nurse (or Adult Nurse with neonatal critical care experience) with a minimum of 2 years’ NICU experience.
Skilled in managing ventilated and high-dependency infants, including CPAP, HFNC, invasive ventilation, and continuous intensive monitoring.
Experience supporting complex neonatal conditions, stabilisation, emergency response, and transitional care.
Confident working within MDT neonatal teams (neonatal consultants, ANNPs, AHPs).
Qualifications.
NMC registration as a Children’s Nurse, or Adult Nurse with proven neonatal critical-care competence.
Neonatal QIS (Qualified in Specialty) — required by most NICUs and expected under Framework standards.
Neonatal Life Support (NLS) — mandatory for all NICU placements.
Safeguarding Children Level 3.
Compliance and Vetting.
Enhanced DBS.
Full identity and right-to-work verification.
Two recent clinical references.
Up-to-date NHS Statutory & Mandatory Training.
Immunisation compliance.
NMC PIN and registration check.
Qualification and employment history verification.
Competency confirmation for neonatal intensive care practice (including ventilation support and emergency neonatal care).