Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner | Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner | Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

Employer: Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust

Location: Liverpool, L8 7SS

Pay:

Contract Type: Permanent

Hours: Full time

Disability Confident: No

Closing Date: 08/07/2026

About this job

Applications are invited for the post of an experienced Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioner for the Liverpool Neonatal Partnership at Liverpool Women’s Hospital and the Neonatal Surgical Unit at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital. They will work across both sites delivering high quality specialist care.

Applicants should have at least 2 years experience in advanced neonatal practice.

The Liverpool Neonatal Partnership is developing a single neonatal service, building a new Neonatal Surgical Intensive Care unit on the Alder Hey site due for completion in 2026. The new neonatal surgical unit will facilitate optimal family integrated care provision with parent bedrooms attached.

Clinical duties will comprise a minimum 80% your working time, with up to 20% non‑clinical time for supporting professional activities including CPD and evidence of work towards the ongoing development of the service utilizing the other three pillars of advanced practice (leadership/management, research and education). Advanced Clinical Practice incorporating expert clinical skills and autonomous decision making.

You will be required to fulfil a secondment to Connect North West Neonatal Transport service, which will help develop your skills as an ANNP. You will be competent and proficient in your area of clinical practice, independently managing clinical conditions, making autonomous decisions and seeking advice when appropriate.

You will demonstrate advanced communication skills, recognise the different roles and contributions of clinical staff, and be able to work collaboratively with the multidisciplinary care team.

You will evaluate your own practice, ensuring that you maintain clinical skills and competency in your area of practice and work to develop your role in line with the needs and objectives of the service.

You will complete yearly clinical competency assessments.

Clinical responsibilities

Have specialist knowledge of neonates gained through an ANNP training programme at master’s level and gained significant experience working as an ANNP post qualification.

Provide expert clinical care for babies on the unit at LWH, Alder Hey neonatal surgical intensive care unit.

Exhibit a strong patient and family focus in your practice; applying the principles of patient and family‑centred and family integrated care and shared decision‑making with neonates, infants, families and carers.

Act as a liaison between parents and health care professionals and gain informed consent for relevant procedures where necessary.

Attend high‑risk deliveries and take the lead for the resuscitation, stabilisation and safe transfer of babies using advanced resuscitation and life‑support techniques.

Respond to neonatal emergency situations within agreed protocols, initiate appropriate intervention and treatment.

Undertake independent prescribing and evaluate the effects of drug therapies, working within trust non‑medical prescribing policies and guidelines.

Maintain effective communication with parents/families about clinical decisions and plans of care, involving them in decision making and promoting a family‑centred approach to care.

Provide counselling and support parents whose babies are receiving intensive care.

Teach and advise parents and carers in relation to their baby’s condition.

Contribute to antenatal discussions when abnormality of pregnancy identified.

Collaborate with members of the multidisciplinary team undertaking a key role in assessment, planning, implementing and evaluating total care of the sick and well neonate in accordance with local policies and protocols.

Attend the ward round with members of the multidisciplinary team and contribute to the clinical management of individual patients utilising nursing/medical knowledge and skills to plan, implement and initiate changes where required.

This will include monitoring and evaluating the response to treatment through analysis and interpretation of diagnostic interventions.

Participate in the National Immunisation Programme and neonatal audiology and retinopathy screening/surveillance within the department.

Make and receive referrals to and from the collaborative care team.

As a senior clinical figure in our organisation, you will be a role model for advanced clinical practice across all 4 pillars of your practice: Clinical practice, Education, Operationalising the values and vision of the organisation and working towards these as a fundamental component of your role.

Liaise with senior nursing and midwifery shift coordinators on the neonatal unit and delivery suite to ensure babies receive appropriate care in the appropriate place.

Develop strong working relationships with operational support staff and give clinical guidance to benefit patient care.

Provide the highest standard of clinical and professional leadership and management to a multidisciplinary team working shift patterns which complement the other medical staff rota undertaking identified shifts/sessions accordingly.

Accept constructive challenges and look for opportunities to improve service at individual‑patient, patient‑cohort and organisational levels.

You will also have a role in engaging beyond your organisation in clinical networks where these exist.

Participate in service evaluation against quality or service specifications and/or national guidance and where appropriate, engage in peer review to inform and develop practice.

Actively demonstrate an understanding of domains of Quality, and of Quality Improvement; work continuously to improve safety and quality of care in the organisation by recognised improvement methodologies and understand how this relates to national regulation.

Engage in risk management, incident reporting, and incident investigation within your organisation and be able to share learning within and beyond your organisation through your professional networks.

Implement new practice, and of new models of care will also be part of your role, based on your clinical, organisational and strategic knowledge and exposure.

Lead in the development and implementation of policies, procedures and guidelines for the unit.

Actively participate in clinical governance and risk management, respond to complaints and incidents and ensuring learning is disseminated and integrated into practice.

Be aware of the code of professional conduct in the performance of advance nursing and be professionally accountable for own actions during the working shift.

Provide leadership and expert clinical advice and supervision to junior medical and nursing/midwifery staff, including assessment and support to staff on the post‑natal ward and delivery suite.

Encourage and guide staff to utilise resources within the department to attain and maintain high levels of medical and nursing performance.

Education, Training and Professional Development

Actively participate in an annual personal development review (PDR) covering all four pillars of practice to evidence continued competence and ongoing development.

Support the organisation in building capacity and capability of its workforce through participating in teaching and learning activities and the development of teaching materials.

Continue to develop and enhance clinical and non‑clinical professional skills through self‑directed, independent learning.

Maintain continuous professional development and keep up to date of advances in research in neonatal care.

Lead in teaching of the expanded role of the nurse.

Research, Audit and Evaluation

Actively participate and engage in audit and research activities and use an expert level of knowledge to identify gaps in research and work towards filling them.

You will use your internal and external professional networks to facilitate the development of this research and audit plan.