Neonatal Homecare Nurse | University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Neonatal Homecare Nurse to work within the Neonatal Homecare Service. This model of Neonatal Community Care is provided across the Leicester and Northamptonshire region, including Hospitals of Leicester, Kettering, and Northampton Hospitals. Posts are currently available for the Leicester, Leicestershire & Rutlands area.

The post holder will be an excellent team worker and will be responsible for ensuring the highest standards of clinical care and evidence-based practice for infants within the scope of neonatal outreach, providing specialist ongoing care for the neonate and advice, support, and education to the family in the home environment.

We are delighted to offer a 7-day service and have well-established services including Home phototherapy for jaundiced babies, Home Oxygen, and Home nasogastric tube feeding. The Neonatal Homecare Team provides a service covering 7 days a week, from 08:00-17:00 Monday to Sunday.

We are seeking a highly motivated Neonatal Nurse to join our forward-thinking, family-focused neonatal team. The successful candidate will demonstrate drive and motivation to support the expansion of such an exciting service. To be successful in this role, you will need to be a registered nurse/midwife; ideally, a post-specialist neonatal course QIS experience, current Health visitor or Paediatric community care would be considered.

The job holder will assist Neonatal Unit, transitional care-based staff with early and appropriate discharge planning in accordance with the criteria for outreach care, providing a seamless timely discharge from hospital to the home environment. Responsibilities include:

• Providing and delivering parent education programmes including Basic Life Support.
• Working without direct supervision, including the assessment of care needs, planning, organising, and implementing care at home ensuring continuous provision of integrated care.
• Providing ongoing holistic care within the community setting for vulnerable neonates and their families, ensuring equitable care across diverse communities.
• Monitoring nutrition, feeding skills, and growth, ensuring onward referral when indicated.
• Monitoring and plotting growth and identifying when intervention is required to improve growth.

Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030). We have four primary goals:

• High-quality care for all
• Being a great place to work
• Partnerships for impact
• Research and education excellence

We will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities. Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all: we are compassionate, we are proud, we are inclusive, we are one team.

This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.

About the University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust:

• Develop and facilitate others in promoting an evidence-based learning culture and practice, supporting new starters and students.
• Recognise, prioritise, and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.
• Take responsibility for the care needs of individual allocated patients, referring to the Band 6/7 when necessary for advice.
• Provide evidence of work diary, identifying planned visits in accordance with lone worker policy.
• Monitor and inform of relevant changes of care plan required to meet the health needs of our babies following assessment and discussion of any changes to their condition by appropriate escalation.
• Work as one team, providing cross-site cover as required.
• Take a proactive role in the education and training of the multidisciplinary team(s), providing ongoing supervision and support where neonates require ongoing care needs within neonatal outreach.
• Work effectively and efficiently as an Outreach team member as well as independently in the planning, assessment, implementation, and evaluation of neonatal community care.
• Report safeguarding concerns, follow safeguarding advice, and initiate action/referrals where appropriate.
• Be confident and competent within the Outreach setting as a lone worker in accordance with trust policy.
• Ensure that fully accurate, complete, and contemporaneous nursing records are written and maintained for each patient.

This advert closes on Tuesday 1 Sep 2026.