Job overview

***INTERNAL APPLICANTS WITH Neonatal Specific Qualification and Neonatal experience working on the special care baby unit ONLY TO APPLY***

Development Opportunity - Neonatal Nurse/Junior Sister

We are currently offering an exciting internal opportunity for Band 5 Neonatal Nurse with a speciality qualification to  develop your career through a competency based development programme to become a Band 6 Junior Sister/Enhanced Neonatal Nurse.     

This competency based assessment programme will be completed over 6 months, and will include support to develop your clinical skills and your leadership and managements skills.   As part of the programme you will be expected to complete your venepuncture, cannulation and ECG training (if you have not already completed this) to enhance your clinical knowledge and skills.   

You will be supported and  by the Band 7 Senior Nurse and Practice Educator to develop your leadership skills,  through formal and informal learning to develop the knowledge and skills to manage staff sickness and absence, personal development reviews,  and shift management, including leading and co-ordinating the shift with the support of a 'buddy system' for the duration of the programme.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for people with a passion for neonatal care who want to develop their existing knowledge and skills to become a team leader, helping us to achieve great things.

As a band 6 nurse on the special care baby unit, after completion of the programme you will be responsible for taking charge of co-ordinating the shifts, supporting  junior staff and students, being responsible for managing capacity and acuity ,  working closely with the wider MDT.

The competency based programme will include

• Completion of internal leadership and management study days.
• Completion of internal venepuncture, cannulation and ECG monitoring
• Leadership and Self-Awareness Development
• Team Working and enhanced communication skills
• Delivering effective feedback
• Managing conflict
• Delegation skills.

You will also be given the opportunity to lead a small team to manage a small project, focusing on an area within neonatal care that you are passionate about, providing an opportunity for both personal and professional development.

Working for our organisation

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.

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.