Neonatal Staff Nurse - Special Care Baby Unit
The closing date is 18 November 2025
Job summary
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 are working toward implementing UNICEF BFI neonatal standards and have achieved stage 1, working toward stage 2. We are a Bronze accredited unit for the BLISS Baby Charter and are in the process of working toward Silver.
We are looking to recruit a Neonatal Nurse who has completed a Neonatal Speciality Module (QIS) or willing to work towards, with recent experience of working as a registered nurse in an NNU, LNU or SCBU.
If you are a Registered Nurse or Midwife with previous neonatal experience, then this could be the opportunity you have been looking for. We are dedicated to developing all of our staff and will provide you with an opportunity to develop within a supported environment
***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 within a multi-disciplinary team to deliver best quality care, assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating individual programmes of care. You will also work closely with our neonatal outreach team to establish and facilitate early discharge planning to the community.
You will have a desire and a commitment to deliver excellent 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.
About us
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.
Details
Date posted
04 November 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 5
Salary
£31,049 to £37,796 a year pro rata, pa
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
229-SUR-7585384
Job locations
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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