Community Staff Nurse - Kington, Weobley and StauntonNHS

Job summary

If we receive a large volume of applications, we reserve the right to close this vacancy early.

We are the Kington & Weobley District Nursing Team, a small, 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 part of the North & West Primary Care Network and work closely with partners across the network.

We are based in the market town of Kington nestled within the beautiful County of Herefordshire - covering both Kington and Weobley surgeries in the north-west area of the county. This rural area has many areas of outstanding beauty and is predominantly agricultural with rolling country side for miles.

We're seeking to recruit a band 5 community nurse who shares our passion for caring for people in their own homes, strives towards excellence in community nursing and who has the ability to work well within a close knit team of supportive colleagues.

Our working shifts are 08:00 to 16:00 and 12:00 to 20:00, over a 7 day period, including regular weekends. There will be an expectation to work within the North West Locality, though the base for this job is Kington.

Main duties of the job

Our aim is to provide treatment and support to patients in their own homes. Whilst undertaking a holistic nursing assessment, we aim to encourage patients to remain as independent as possible, in order to prevent hospital admissions.

Due to the nature of this role, the ability to meet the travel requirements of the post are essential.

Main duties of this role include, but are not limited to;

• Wound care including NPWT- Palliative care- Managing end of life symptoms and providing support for relatives/carers- Managing long term conditions in a community environment- CVAD and drain management- Chemotherapy disconnect- Holistic assessments- Post operative care following discharge- Wound assessments and management- Venous blood samples

Job description

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view the Job description and person specification attached to this vacancy in the supporting documents.

About us

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.

Worcestershire is our neighbouring county. The post holder will be required to travel between sites.

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.