Overview
Nursery Nurse-Postnatal Ward
The closing date is 07 November 2025
We are recruiting for a Nursery Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
You will be an effective member of the maternity multidisciplinary team working under the supervision and guidance of registered midwives/nurses and other health professionals.
You will assist registered midwives/nurses and parents to provide holistic care for neonates within the maternity services, including transitional care.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Responsibilities
* The postnatal ward consists of 27 cots. We also provide transitional care facilities as shared care between the Neonatal Unit and the ward.
* Contribute to the team as an active member, always demonstrating a flexible and cooperative approach, supporting colleagues with clinical activities.
* Work within the agreed policies and procedures of the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust.
* To assist with the admission, transfer, and discharge planning of neonates, ensuring relevant information is communicated to patients and their families, as well as the midwife in charge. This includes the checking of babies\' identity bands, wellbeing, and handover of clinical information of patient and baby.
* The successful applicant will work in a supervised role assisting the Midwifery team, providing a high standard of family centred care within the Postnatal Ward environment.
About us
At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
We run the following hospitals:
* The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
* New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
* Hertford County, Hertford
We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification information pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Must be Numerate and literate
* Good standard of education
* NNEB or equivalent training
Experience
* Experience of working with Neonates or in a healthcare setting
Skills
* Effective interpersonal skills and ability to use own initiative
* A desire to care for patients and babies
* Ability to prioritise own workload
* Ability to input and access computerised data
* Ability to concentrate on the task in hand whilst responding to unpredictable or changing needs in the clinical area.
* Ability to work on own initiative, regularly support patients and others before, during and following birth at times being exposed to distressing and occasionally highly distressing circumstances
* Basic IT Skills ECDL
Knowledge
* Understanding of own development and training needs
Other Requirements
* Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion
* Role model our Trust values every day
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Employer name
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
£25,147 to £27,596 a year per annum pro rata
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