Job overview

We are the Leominster District Nursing Team, a dedicated team providing excellent planned and unplanned nursing care to patients in their own homes. We aim to deliver high quality care to improve health & wellbeing and to support our patients to remain living at home. We pride ourselves in being hard-working, supportive, friendly and flexible. 

We are based in the busy market town of Leominster nestled within the beautiful County of Herefordshire – covering 3 GP practices in and around  town. This rural area has many areas of outstanding beauty and Leominster has excellent transport links to Hereford and beyond.

We’re seeking to recruit a full-time Band 5 Community Nurse who shares our passion for caring for people in their own homes, and strives towards excellence in community nursing.
 
We’re keen to recruit colleagues with the right values and behaviours who can help us deliver our Trust priorities:

•    Compassion – we work closely with patients and their families to ensure care is holistic, individualised and patient focused. 
•    Accountability – we work in partnership with a wide range of multi-disciplinary teams, including GP's, Palliative Care Nurses, Therapy Teams.
•    Respect – we foster good working environments and want our staff to feel safe, supported and empowered. 
•    Excellence –  based in the community hospital we  work  with ward colleagues to support discharge.

Do you share these values? If so, read on… 

Main duties of the job

As a community nurse you will be responsible for delivering a wide range of nursing interventions such as wound care, palliative care, CVAD and drain management and catheter care.  The team has a shared caseload and you will undertake daily home visits across the patch.  You will be required to work weekends and bank holidays as part of a rota and cover late shifts until 10pm. 
 
We are a busy service and caseloads are reflective of this. This requires you to have good organisational skills and an ability to work independently. The role involves visiting patients at home in a rural setting and you therefore must be able to drive and have access to a car. There are opportunities for lease cars.
  
You should be able to evidence the ability to work confidently and autonomously and be able to demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills. 

If you have the right values for the Wye Valley Trust you will be supported by a programme of continuous training and development.  You may also be responsible for supervising other members of the team.

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.