Staff Nurse - Special Care Baby Unit

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Job Summary

We are looking for Band 5 staff nurse to join our small special care baby unit, designated Level 1+ providing high quality evidence based care for premature and sick infants born 30 weeks gestation and above.

The unit has 12 cots in total, 1 x intensive care cot for stabilisation and transfer to Level 3 Unit, 2 High Dependency cots, 6 special care cots and 3 transitional care beds for mother and baby located on the special care baby unit. Our vision is to work in partnership with the families to promote family integrated care delivering high quality care to the babies and their families.

We are working toward implementing UNICEF BFI neonatal standards, we have achieved Bronze Accreditation and are working towards our Silver award for the BLISS baby charter.

Are you a Registered Children’s Nurse or Midwife or a student nurse with a desire to work within neonatal care then this could be the opportunity you have been looking for. We are looking to recruit a Band 5 nurse either with or without neonatal experience as we are dedicated to developing all our staff and will provide you with an opportunity to undertake additional post graduate study including a foundation module in neonatal care and a degree in Neonatal Critical Care to fulfil the requirements of this post.

Main duties of the job

As a Band 5 staff nurse, you will be responsible for the care of the pre-term and term babies and their families across the neonatal service including families in our transitional care beds. You will work within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver best quality care, assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating individual programmes of care. You must have a commitment to delivering family centred care in partnership with the families, and as a member of our small friendly professional team you will be flexible, reliable and motivated to succeed.

About Us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

Worcestershire is our neighbouring county. The post holder will be required to travel between sites.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Job Description Job Responsibilities

For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.

Qualifications

Person Specification Education & Qualifications Essential

• Nursing or Midwifery Degree (RN, RCN or RM)
• Practice Assessor/Supervisor
  
  

Desirable

• Neonatal Speciality Qualification
• Newborn Life Support Course
  
  

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities Essential

• Knowledge of neonatal nursing
• Knowledge of safeguarding practices
• Knowledge of clinical governance and the relevance to practice.
  
  

Desirable

• Knowledge of research and development
• Knowledge of relevant policies and procedures.
  
  

Experience Essential

• Experience within relevant clinical areas
  
  

Desirable

• Experience in Neonatal or Paediatric Nursing
• Experience in adult critical care or ICU nursing
  
  

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details Employer name

Wye Valley NHS Trust

Address

Wye Valley NHS Trust - County Hospital

Union Walk,

Hereford

HR1 2ER

Employer’s website

https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)