Neonatal Matron

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a Neonatal Matron to join our amazing team at ESNEFT.

This is an opportunity to join the senior nursing team in a new cross site role.

The role will allow for the development of the senior team and to support the Neonatal Teams continue to provide excellent standards of care across both of our sites at Colchester and Ipswich Hospitals.

The fundamental role of the Neonatal Matron will be to ensure that high quality, safe delivery of care continues to every baby every day.

**You will work to three main objectives**:

- To provide professional leadership to the multidisciplinary team.
- Providing a visible, accessible and authoritative presence in wards for patients and their families.
- Ensuring regional and national standards within the neonatal units are aligned and best practise within ESNEFT.

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital & community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester & Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do & removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.