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Job overview

Are you an enthusiastic, motivated nurse looking to join a small innovative team? An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Colorectal/Stoma
Care Nursing Dept at Wye Valley NHS Trust for a full time Band 6 nurse to join our friendly and supportive team for a 12 month secondment or fixed term contract.

At Wye Valley NHS Trust the Colorectal/Stoma Care Nursing Team provide holistic support to patients and their families and carers on their
Colorectal pathway. As part of the Multi-disciplinary team the successful post holder will be instrumental in helping to develop new pathways as
part of an evolving Service in order to meet the needs of our patients both in the acute and community settings. We are involved in all aspects of
prevention, diagnosis, treatment and management of patients with colorectal disorders.

The post holder will be a Registered Nurse with at least 3 years post Registration experience and ideally have recent experience in a surgical
speciality. The post holder should be highly motivated and demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills. They will be required to work autonomously and as part of a team and will need to be flexible and resilient, demonstrating sensitivity to others in sometimes distressing situations. The successful candidate will have opportunity to enhance their professional development within an experienced and professional team.

Main duties of the job

As a Colorectal/Stoma Care Nurse you will be expected to:
• Provide specialist Colorectal/Stoma care advice and support to patients, their families and carers and other healthcare providers
throughout the patients care pathway. This will take place in both an in-patient and out-patient setting.
• Work as a core member of the Multidisciplinary Colorectal Team at the Wye Valley Trust contributing to meetings, audits and care
pathways as required.
• Be an active participant in already established Nurse Led pathways and will be offered additional training in order to support this
element of the role.
• Work in collaboration with Primary care to provide a community based stoma nurse service facilitating the integration of this service
within the WVT Colorectal/Stoma Care work plan.
• Participate in the education and training of patients, family and carers and other health care providers within the speciality.
• Make use of audit and research data to evaluate the service and ensure that best evidence based care is provided.
• Be actively involved in health promotion and prevention strategies and adhere to Wye Valley Trust policies and procedures.

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.