Job Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, innovative, and forward-thinking nurse or midwife with previous Band 6 experience in a clinical neonatal setting to join our team as the Family Integrated Care (FiCare) Lead for our Local Neonatal Unit (LNU).
The postholder will play a pivotal role in embedding and advancing the Family Integrated Care philosophy throughout the neonatal service, ensuring that families are fully supported and actively involved in the care of their babies. Working collaboratively with the wider multidisciplinary team, the FiCare Lead will promote a culture of partnership between healthcare professionals and families, enhancing both the family experience and clinical outcomes within the Local Neonatal Unit.
The successful candidate will work closely with Allied Health Professional (AHP) teams, nursing and medical education teams, clinical psychology services, chaplaincy teams, and infant feeding specialists to develop, deliver, and evaluate FiCare education and training programmes. They will champion best practice, support service development initiatives, and act as a key resource for staff and families across the neonatal service.
This is an excellent opportunity for a motivated individual with strong leadership, communication, and teaching skills who is passionate about improving neonatal care through meaningful family involvement and collaborative working.
Main duties of the job
- The postholder will fulfil a key role within the unit and will ensure that Family Integrated Care ethos is embedded within the service.
- They will play a key role in optimising the clinical environment using a Family Integrated Care (FiCare) framework such as BAPM Framework for Practice, providing resources for staff, parents, and their families.
- They will collaborate with Allied health professions (AHP) teams, nurse education teams, clinical psychology leads, bereavement/chaplaincy teams and infant feeding liaison on Ficare education, teaching, and training.
- The post holder will show leadership in the management of consistency of practice, high standards of care, innovative practice with a focus on family care, patient safety and as a subject matter expert for staff and parents throughout the family journey.
- To ensure that nursing practice is contemporary a regular clinical shift should be undertaken to keep up to date with current research and evidence-based practice and an ongoing awareness of the parent journey.
- To collaborate and work in partnership to promote, support and assess a Ficare culture across all aspects of neonatal care.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For further information regarding the detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the attached job description and person specification documents.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NMC Registration with experience in the care of babies, children and young people or Midwifery
- Neonatal qualification in speciality
- Significant experience at working at Band 6 within a neonatal unit
Desirable criteria
- Leadership course or experience
- Teaching qualification/Experience
- Mental Health/Coaching/Counselling qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated experience in promoting FiCare Practice
- Experience of developing and delivering training.
- Leadership/Management experience.
- Quality improvement project/Audit experience
Desirable criteria
- Recent experience of working in relevant specialty
- Experience of clinical audit/promoting quality issues within healthcare.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Basic keyboard skills.
- Basic use of IT packages eg. word, excel, power point, outlook
- Excellent IT skills.
Desirable criteria
- Presentation skills, written and verbal.
- Report writing skills.
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) is proud of its strong reputation, record of achievement and ambition for the future. We serve a population of over 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and South Buckinghamshire, and remain committed to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.
Our new organisational strategy – FHFT 2030 – sets out our ambition to be the best place to receive care and the best place to work in the NHS. Underpinned by our Trust values – Committed to Excellence, Working Together, Facing the Future, and being a modern, compassionate, Healthcare Organisation – we are creating a culture where our people can thrive and patients always come first.
We continue to invest heavily in our services and facilities. This includes the development of a new hospital at Frimley Park, major expansion of diagnostics and inpatient capacity, and the continued transformation of services across our sites. We have already delivered a brand-new £100m state-of-the-art Heatherwood Hospital, a £49m Emergency Assessment Centre at Wexham Park, and a £10m upgrade to maternity services.
We are also committed to sustainability and the NHS Net Zero ambition. Our new hospital and estate developments are being designed to be environmentally responsible, energy efficient, and future-proofed, featuring on-site renewables energy and intelligent energy systems. Through our green plan, we are embedding sustainable practices across all areas of care and operations, ensuring we reduce our environmental impact while improving population health and wellbeing. Our staff are key to helps us deliver on our ambition and to ensure sustainability is a core component of care delivery and our operations.
Alongside estates’ investments, we are embedding a strong focus on digital innovation and quality improvement. Our electronic patient record (Epic), launched in 2024, is already enabling safer, more connected, and more effective care for patients, while giving staff the tools they need to do their best work. Our electronic patient record also supports safe and effective digitised care pathways, savings time and carbon, whilst delivering excellent quality of care.
Everything we do is guided by our values, shaping how we care for patients, support colleagues, and build a sustainable future for healthcare together.
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