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Job reference: 185595
Salary: Band 5 (£30,229 - £37,664)
Job closing date: 19/06/2024
Job Type: Nursing and Midwifery
Location: University Hospital Wishaw
Employment type: Fixed-term
Hours Per Week: 2 X 34.5
Job posted date: 05/06/2024
Employer (NHS Board): NHS Lanarkshire
Department: Neonatal Unit

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The Role

We are looking to recruit a Registered Nurse to join the Neonatal Unit at University Hospital Wishaw!

The Registered Nurse will assist the Senior Charge Midwife or Charge Midwife/Nurse in the overall delivery of high quality evidence based family centred care.

The successful candidate will be involved in providing both individualised patient care and in planning, implementing and evaluating clinical care within all areas of the neonatal unit. As well as ensuring compliance with NHS Lanarkshire’s policy and procedures, and maintaining statutory requirements in accordance with the NMC.

To post holder will provide safe, effective person centred care.

* Candidate applying must have valid UK NMC pin *


Contract type

Band 5 / Fixed Term - 12 Months / Part Time / 34.5 hours 


NHS Lanarkshire

Have you always wanted to work with NHS Lanarkshire? Then this might be the opportunity for you to join Team Lanarkshire!

Here at NHS Lanarkshire, we put the patient at the heart of everything we do. Each colleague within the organisation plays a key role in how we deliver our healthcare services.

We proudly serve a population of 655,000 across rural and urban communities in both North and South Lanarkshire. NHS Lanarkshire is comprised of Acute Services (which currently provide hospital based services over 3 main sites), Corporate & Property & Support Services, North and South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnerships which provide integrated primary healthcare and social care services to local communities and surrounding areas.


Why join NHS Lanarkshire?

Join us and you will discover a supportive environment where you will have the chance to add to your skills and further your career.

Some of NHS Lanarkshire benefits include:

  • A minimum of 27 days annual leave increasing with length of service (pro-rata for part time staff)
  • A minimum of 8 days of public holidays
  • Membership of NHS Pension Scheme, with life insurance benefits (for more information on the NHS Pension Scheme visit the Scottish Public Pension)
  • Paid sick leave increasing with length of service
  • Occupational health services
  • Employee Counselling services
  • Work-life Balance policies and procedures

NHS Lanarkshire have a range of support services on topics that can impact both on your working and personal life including occupational health, spiritual care and independent counselling. This support can be accessed using the links on this page.


What we'll need you to bring

  • Registered General Nurse/ Sick Children’s Nurse on NMC Register
  • The post holder will be required to demonstrate excellent team working skills with the ability to work using own initiative
  • Effective listening, communication and interpersonal skills
  • Ability to work with people and as part of a multidisciplinary team
  • Excellent time management skills
  • Working knowledge of basic information technology

It would be great if you also have:

  • Demonstration of professional development in neonatal /paediatric care.
  • Experience in paediatric or neonatal nursing
  • Good understanding of knowledge around current issues in neonatal nursing
  • Demonstration of an awareness of recent research and evidence based practice in neonatal care
  • Good organisational skills
  • Ability to teach and supervise others

Looking to find out more?

If you’re looking to find out a bit more, then we would love to hear from you!

Please contact Sharon Oosterbosch at Sharon.Oosterbosch@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

For enquiries regarding the application form or recruitment process, please contact Devon Westwater at Devon.Westwater@lanarkshire.scot.nhs.uk

Please remember to include the job title and reference number in your email.


Further Information

For more information on the role, please refer to the Job Description. If you’re looking for more information on the recruitment process, organisation or the services we provide, please refer to our information pack, or our recruitment webpage.

Additional Information for Applicants:

  • Posts close at midnight on the indicated date
  • For help to complete an application on Jobtrain please follow this link: https://www.careers.nhs.scot/how-to-apply/application-process/
  • Please note that our correspondence method is by e-mail, therefore please ensure you enter your email address accurately
  • Please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders) and also your Jobtrain account for updates
  • Please contact Jobtrain Candidate Support Hub - https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home for advice and support with any system issues
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  • Once you have submitted your application form you will be unable to make any amendments

In NHS Lanarkshire we are committed to recruiting a workforce that fully reflects the diverse make-up of our society. A place where every individual can thrive, develop and succeed based on skill, knowledge and talent, regardless of race, disability, gender, sexual orientation, care experienced* or any other dimension that can be used to differentiate people from one another.


We anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the advert once sufficient applications are received.  Please complete and submit your application early.


*Care experienced applicants are people who live/have lived with foster parents/kinship carers or who live/have lived in a residential children’s setting/secure unit.

Whilst this advertisement may be for a specific post(s) in a particular location, applicants who are shortlisted for interview may be considered for similar vacancies in alternative locations.

Please note for all vacancies where a driving licence is required this must be a full UK/EU/EEA licence.

NHS Lanarkshire has a legal obligation to ensure that it does not employ any worker who has not been granted the relevant permission to work in the UK.

We are required to check the entitlement to work in the UK of all prospective employees, regardless of nationality or job category. UK Visas & Immigration rules are available at www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk.

Prospective applicants are encouraged to check eligibility in advance of applying for vacancies in NHS Lanarkshire.


From 1 April 2024, the working week for NHS Agenda for Change workers in Scotland will be reduced.  Full-time hours will reduce from 37.5 to 37 hours (pro rata for part-time staff) without loss of earnings.

NHS Lanarkshire will implement this change but it may not be possible to fully transition from 1 April and there may therefore be some areas of the organisation where implementation may take longer.  If the department is currently unable to safely accommodate the reduced hours from 1st April, you may be required to work 37.5 hours per week until the department can meet the requirements without impacting patient safety - you will, of course, be remunerated accordingly. NHS Lanarkshire is committed to full implementation of the 37 hour working week across all areas as soon as it is safe to do so.


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