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Job summary

Main area
Elective Care
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent: Rotational post days/ nights
Hours
23 hours per week (part time)
Job ref
229-SUR-7442574
Employer
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Hereford
Town
Hereford
Salary
£31,049 - £37,796 pa pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
14/09/2025 08:00

Employer heading

NHS

Staff Nurse - ICU

Band 5

 

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Job overview

Are you ready for an exciting challenge?

We are actively looking for Staff Nurses at band 5 to come and work within Wye Valley NHS Trust in Herefordshire. This is an exciting time to be working here.

Main duties of the job

Wye Valley NHS Trust is the first of its kind in England as an Integrated Care Organisation that combines acute and community care. The key principles of the organisation are to improve the health and well being of the people we serve in Herefordshire and the surrounding areas. As the first integrated provider of acute, community and social care in England, we aim to build new relationships between our staff, patients, service users and their carers, and with the wider community.

We are a clinical and practitioner-led organisation owned by our local community and staff. There are plenty of opportunities to work in a variety of settings and opportunities to rotate through community and an acute hospital environment.

We currently have vacancies in: ICU - permanent and fixed term contracts available

Proven acute ward experience is required.

We offer a critical care induction and critical care competency framework linked to the critical care networks.

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.

 

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view ‘supporting documents’ linked to this vacancy.

 

Person specification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Proven skills within relevant clinical area(s)
  • Extensive proven acute ward experience

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Leadership
  • Time Management of self & others
  • Problem solving
  • Ability to influence at management & team level
  • Good knowledge of Government initiatives or equivalent
  • Evidence of NMC pin and revalidation
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of Change Management

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • First / Second Level Registration or equivalent
  • Evidence of having undertaken a period of Preceptorship

Personal Attributes

Essential criteria
  • Flexible & Adaptable
  • Team Player
  • Ability to work well under pressure
  • Effective and sensitive handling of difficult information and situations.

Other Factors

Essential criteria
  • Able to meet Moving & Handling requirements of job with any aids or adaptions that may be required
  • Able to meet travel requirements of job

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employercorporate covenantNHS Rainbow badge

Applicant requirements

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
Tracy Hamer
Job title
Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01432 372931
Additional information

If you are looking for a challenge and want to make a difference then contact Lead Nurse Tracy Hamer on 01432 372931 for further information.

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