Job overview

At WVT our we are designated Level 1+ Special Care Baby Unit 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 have achieved UNICEF BFI (Stage 1) neonatal standards  and we are working towards stage 2.   We have achieved Bronze Accreditation and are now working towards Silver for the BLISS Baby Charter.   

Are you an experienced neonatal nurse with a  Qualification in Speciality (QIS) who would relish the opportunity of joining a small dedicated team to provide high quality neonatal care in a small rural district general hospital.    If you are a passionate and motivated neonatal nurse wanting to make a difference to the lives of premature and sick Newborn babies and their families then this could be the opportunity for you.

Previous applicants need not reapply

***neonatal experience is required for this post***

Main duties of the job

As a band 5 staff nurse you will be responsible for the care of pre-term and term babies and their families across the neonatal service including families in our transitional care beds. You will work alongside an experienced multi-disciplinary team to deliver high quality care, assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating individual programmes of care. 

You will 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.   

In return we offer a supportive and inclusive multidisciplinary team environment encouraging all of our staff to grow and develop.   We have a dedicated Neonatal Outreach Team who continue to provide care in the community once a family is discharged from SCBU.

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.