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Job summary

Main area
Nursing - Maternity
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent: May consider part time hours
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Long shifts 12.5 hours. Monday - Friday. No bank holidays.)
Job ref
387-WC7211-HN-A
Employer
University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
St Michael Hospital
Town
Bristol
Salary
£29,970 - £36,483 pa pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
28/07/2025 23:59

Employer heading

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust logo

Staff Nurse - Maternity

Band 5

As an organisation we recognise the value of a healthy work-life balance. When applying, speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate flexible working, so your work life fits around your home life.

We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as they are under-represented within the Trust.

Click on this link to find out about our values https://www.uhbw.nhs.uk/p/about-us/our-trust-values

Job overview

Are you looking for the exciting opportunity to join our innovative, friendly and supportive team here at UHBW? Are you ready to continue your development & knowledge and gather a breadth of experience and learn new skills in this exciting venture caring for women and their babies in the antenatal and postnatal period?

We have an opportunity you you to join our Maternity Recovery Team as a Recovery Nurse. The post consists of three 12.5 hour shifts per week (Monday - Friday). No bank holidays included!

Main duties of the job

If you think you have what it takes then don’t hesitate in applying as we would love to welcome you to our team! Are you:

· Able to develop your clinical skills and participate in continuing your professional development?

· Motivated, hardworking and great at communicating enabling the ability to work well in our multidisciplinary team?

· Confident at reading drug charts and providing the appropriate medication at the right time and route for a number of patients in your care?

· Able to confidently perform observations – identifying normal parameters, and escalating appropriately when outside of this?

· Sufficient in wound care, identifying any deviation from normal and escalating appropriately?

· Confident and timely in documentation?

There will also be the fantastic opportunity of training in breastfeeding support, glycaemic control in the neonate, contraception advice, discharge advice and supporting the team in emergency situations. 

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as ‘Good’ overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond. As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Knowledge and Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of caring for sick patients in a variety of settings – this could be as a student
Desirable criteria
  • Previous experience of speciality

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Current NMC Registration
  • RGN.1st Level or relevant qualification
Desirable criteria
  • Training Qualification or equivalent experience
  • Relevant post registration course

Skills and Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Good basic level of English language demonstrated through effective written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to solve problems and use initiative
  • Ability to develop own clinical skills and a willingness to participate in continuing professional development
  • Competency in medication administration including IV drug administration
  • Basic IT skills (e.g. Microsoft packages)
  • Ability to take the lead, initiate and ensure appropriate action in response to the deteriorating patient.
  • Interpersonal skills – Calm - Supportive - Motivated – Professional
  • Willingness to develop teaching skills
  • Able to prioritise and meet deadlines
  • Able to manage difficult situations
  • Awareness of audit & research
  • Self-motivated
  • A team player
  • Recognition of own limits
  • General good health, Able to work on feet for long periods. Aware that the role can be stressful and emotional at times

Aptitudes

Essential criteria
  • Supportive
  • Collaborative
  • Innovative
  • Respectful

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDDisability Confident - two yearsVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveCare quality commission - GoodMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerNHS Pastoral CareStep into healthMenopause Workplace PledgeDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - GoldPride In Veterans

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Midwifery Recruitment
Job title
Midwifery Recruitment
Email address
[email protected]
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