Job overview

To be responsible for promoting and implementing practice conducive to the development of high quality patient care by providing professional, clinical and managerial leadership.

To administer Medical Treatment and undertake training to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care. Be responsible for the management /leadership of the department in the absence of the senior nurse ensuring the governance of the department is maintained according to local and national Policy.

To be autonomous in practice and promote and implement practice conducive to the development of high quality patient care by providing clinical supervision to junior/trainee staff.

Main duties of the job

To provide expert nursing care to patients undergoing treatment within the department, including administration of complex IV regimens, to have advanced nursing skills for delivery and implementation of elective medical procedures/treatments. To assist in the monitoring of and delivery of care within these pathways, ensuring strong leadership and problem solving skills. 

To assist in the writing of risk assessments, standard operating procedures, maintaining staff rotas, electronic staff records and supporting the sister in staff performance.

To obtain a comprehensive history to enable Pre and post operatively care of patients undergoing outpatient procedures/surgery. To monitor the audit process in relation to the WHO checklist, and LocSIPs.

To undertake monitoring of the clinical environment in line with IPC, Health and safety, risk management, medicines management at a higher level to ensure policies and procedures are adhered too, and input data in relation to these checks, to manage the environmental, and hand hygiene audits and ensure that standards are being met. 

Working for our organisation

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.