Job overview

We are currently looking to recruit a newly qualified Band 5 staff Nurse, an ideal opportunity to join our small and friendly team at Hereford.   If you have a passion for neonates and want to follow this career pathway then this could be the opportunity you have been waiting for.
As a newly qualified SCBU staff nurse you will need to show that you have some relevant neonatal experience gained throughout your studies.   You must be confident, compassionate and show excellent clinical skills. You will actively support the ward management team to promote a positive patient experience, embedding the philosophy of family integrated care.
You must also be committed to ongoing study to complete your Neonatal Training within 2 years of commencing employment.   

Main duties of the job

To provide a high standard of individualised care to sick and premature babies and their families.   You will embed the ethos of family integrated care, partake in assessing, developing, implementing and evaluating patient care.
You will maintain your clinical skills and acquire new skills as you progress within the role.   You will maintain standards as set out within unit guidelines, you will maintain good record keeping, communicate effectively with the patients family, relatives and other colleagues within the multi disciplinary team.  

Working for our organisation

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals 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 wed want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its 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.