Job overview

To promote multi-disciplinary patient centred care and take responsibility for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating patient care, primarily. In the absence of senior members take charge of the ward/department on a frequent basis

Main duties of the job

1.1 Support the Ward/Departmental Manager and their deputy in the execution of their role.
1.2 Demonstrate effective verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
1.3 Work as an associate nurse/deputy team leader taking on the role of named primary nurse and team leader in the absence of a more senior nurse.
1.4 Demonstrate basic leadership skills and participate in the education and supervision of all staff and students.
1.5 Demonstrate an awareness of national and local professional issues.
1.6 Demonstrate a valid input to the professional team at Ward/Department level.
1.7 To undertake family centered care when dealing with the patients and their families.
 1.8 To provide information and assistance with child protection issues along with attending case conference, child concern conferences.
1.9 Ensure that all documentation relating to patents are filled in both

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.