Job overview

We are the Leominster District Nursing Team, within the North West Locality, 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 and wellbeing and to support our patients to remain living at home. We pride ourselves in being hard-working, supportive, friendly and flexible. 

We’re seeking to recruit a Community or District Nursing Sister (band 6). You will  share our passion for caring for people in their own homes and has the ability to support the leadership and management whilst striving for excellence in community nursing. You will be pivotal in a collaborative environment that promotes innovative approaches to patient care and a mentor to new staff to help shape the future of nursing within the community. 

As part of this role, you will be involved in triage and referrals.  This involves managing referrals appropriately, and delegating urgent visits for staff within the North West Locality.

We’re keen to recruit a colleague with the right values and behaviours who can help us deliver our Trust priorities of Compassion, Accountability, Respect and Excellence. 

Main duties of the job

As a community nursing sister you will be responsible for managing an identified caseload of patients delivering a wide range of nursing interventions for patients with complex healthcare needs.  In addition you will support junior team members with more complex nursing interventions on the team’s shared caseload.

You will work closely with you designated GP practice, attend multidisciplinary  meetings and work in partnership with our health and social  care colleagues to provide optimal care plans for our patients.

We are a busy service and caseloads are reflective of this. This requires you to have good organisational skills, an ability to work independently and flexibility to support the needs of the service. You will be able to demonstrate excellent nursing skills, ability to motivate others and work well was part of a team.

You will be required to work weekends, bank holidays and cover late shifts (until 8 pm) as part of a rota. 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.

If you have the right values for the Wye Valley Trust you will be supported by a programme of continuous training and development. 

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.