Staff Nurse - Maternity

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The closing date is 22 February 2026

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.

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.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW) is one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, bringing together a combined workforce of over 13,000 staff and over 100 different clinical services across 10 different sites, serving a core population of more than 500,000 people across South West England. UHBW has been rated by the CQC as 'Good' overall and our staff are proud to deliver excellent care to the people of Bristol, Weston and beyond.

As a forward-thinking multi-award winning Trust and a digital exemplar committed to improving patient care, our world-leading research and innovations are having a positive local and global impact. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

UHBW is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them.

Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

For a more detailed job description, main responsibilities, and person specification, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

• Experience of caring for sick patients in a variety of settings - this could be as a student
• Previous experience of speciality

• Current NMC Registration
• Training Qualification or equivalent experience

• Good basic level of English language demonstrated through effective written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to solve problems and use initiative
• Ability to develop own clinical skills and a willingness to participate in continuing professional development
• Competency in medication administration including IV drug administration
• Basic IT skills (e.g. Microsoft packages)
• Ability to take the lead, initiate and ensure appropriate action in response to the deteriorating patient.
• Interpersonal skills - Calm - Supportive - Motivated - Professional
• Willingness to develop teaching skills
• Able to prioritise and meet deadlines
• Able to manage difficult situations
• Awareness of audit & research
• Self-motivated
• A team player
• Recognition of own limits
• General good health, Able to work on feet for long periods. Aware that the role can be stressful and emotional at times
• Supportive
• Respectful

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.

University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust (UHBW)