Job overview

**Internal Applicants only**

Are you a nurse with extensive community experience looking for an opportunity to make a positive difference to the lives of your patients? Do you have the ability to support the leadership and management of a great team to provide high quality care in the community setting? If so, we have an exciting new opportunity for you to join a well-established and dynamic team in the beautiful rural Herefordshire.

The post holder work closely with multidisciplinary teams and will work with our partnership health and social colleagues to provide optimal care plans for our complex patients.

You will be required to work weekends and bank holidays as part of a rota and cover late shifts until 8pm. The role involves visiting patients at home in some rural settings and you therefore must be able to drive and have access to a car. There are opportunities for lease cars.

Main duties of the job

As a Community Nursing sister you will hold an individual caseload delivering a wide range of nursing interventions. In addition you will support team members with more complex nursing interventions on the team’s shared caseload.

You will provide clinical supervision for those within the team and utilise your leadership skills to enhance and develop knowledge and skills of staff.

We are a busy service and caseloads are reflective of this. This requires you to have good organisational skills, an ability to work independently and flexibility to support the needs of the service. You will be able to demonstrate excellent nursing skills, ability to motivate others and work well was part of a team.

Duties include but are not limited to:

Allocation of visits

Maintaining the clinical competency matrix for staff

Reviewing referrals and schedules to ensure appropriate visits

Skill Mix on a day to day basis

Leading handovers

Undertaking clinical skills when required whether in wound clinic or Home visits.

We are passionate about what we do and we care for each other. We want to hear from you if you enjoy:

• Excellent communication; spoken and written
• Good time management and prioritisation skills
• Experience of day to day management and supervision of staff
• Leadership capability
• A strong team working ethic
• A passion to deliver excellence within Community Nursing
• ICT skills including electronic noting and work allocation. Experience of using Community Emis.

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.