Staff Nurse - Maternity

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 for you to join our Maternity Recovery Team as a Recovery Nurse. The post consists of two 12.5 hour shifts per week (07.00 - 19.30 Monday - Friday). No bank holidays!

The team consists of 2 Registered Nurses who will work independently to cover a 5-day service. Therefore it is essential that you can be flexible with your work days.

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.

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.