Community Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse - Hereford City Team

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Would you describe yourself as innovative?

Do you feel that you have leadership skills that could help to deliver collaborative teamwork?

Are you a nurse who would value having quality time to spend with your patients?

If so, then the Hereford City District Nursing Team would love to hear from you!

Applications for staff currently undertaking the Specialist Qualification in District Nursing are welcomed.

The City District Nursing Team is offering a 12 month Fixed Term Band 6 Community / District Nurse contract to cover maternity leave.

We are a big team and pride ourselves on being supportive and take opportunities in assisting with career progression. We have a reputation for being innovative, always willing to trial something new and listen to (and try out!) ideas.

Through excellent caseload management and dedicated administrator support for the team, we have created more time to spend with our patients and we operate in a calm and professional environment.

There are fantastic opportunities for training and maintaining your clinical competencies as well as developing your management and leadership skills.

You will be equipped for mobile working and will be provided with a laptop and smartphone, meaning that you will have access to patient data, enabling you to complete documentation and paperwork efficiently, in real-time.

For an informal chat or visit, please contact Becky Jenkins - details below

The District Nursing Service aims to provide an excellent standard of evidence-based care with the patient always at the centre .As a service we can also provide unplanned nursing intervention to patients in their homes and are part of an integrated service that supports patients to remain in their home environment. You will be one of 6 Sisters / Charge Nurses in the team all hold a caseload of no more than 150 patients.

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.

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view ‘supporting documents’ linked to this vacancy.