Staff Nurse - ICU

Job summary
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.

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: 05 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 5
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year pa pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 229-SUR-8327971
Job locations: Hereford, Stonebow Road, Hereford, HR1 2ER, United Kingdom

Person Specification
Experience

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

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

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

Education & Qualifications

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

Personal Attributes

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

Other Factors

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

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 contact details
Contact: Tracy Hamer (Manager), View email address on meeveem.com, View phone number on meeveem.com

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