JOB PURPOSE/SUMMARY Working as a neonatal nurse caring for the neonates on the unit and the Neonatal Transitional care service and their families. As a neonatal nurse you would be expected to plan the care of the neonate and deliver all aspects of care. To be trained in speciality and able to provide nasogastric tube feeding, able to perform neonatal procedures. The ability to care for high dependence, intensive care and special care babies. Communication is a vital part of neonatal care, to ensure the family are involved in all aspects of care and that the nurse can teach the parent s to enable them to actively involved in their babies care. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team, and able support the medical team in their role. The neonatal nurse is able to work in each neonatal unit, ensuring awareness of all emergency equipment for the department The neonatal nurse will have a teaching role, to junior members of the team and also to the junior medical staff.