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Job overview

The Ledbury District Nursing team are currently recruiting for a band 5 Community Nurse to join our supportive and dedicated team, based at Ledbury . This will be for 22 hrs per week.

We are a supportive and hard-working team, providing care and support to patients in their own homes. Whilst we see the majority of our patients at home, we are also able to see patients in a clinic-based setting, at Ledbury Hospital. This is for patients that are non-housebound, but require the expertise of the district nursing team.

We work closely with a wide range of multi-disciplinary teams, including GP's, Palliative Care Nurses, Therapy Teams, and Advanced Clinical Practitioners.

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 and are able to complete patient documentation and paperwork in real-time. All staff are expected to record their work electronically on EMIS, our electronic patient record system which links into the GP services to allow a seamless service provision. Training and on-going support will be given to support staff with EMIS and other electronic systems they will need to use.

After induction, the post holder will be required to work a mixture of shifts from 8am to 8pm - there are no night shifts.

You will be expected to use your own vehicle for travel, however you will be reimbursed for expenses occurred.

Main duties of the job

The focus of District Nursing is to support patients towards self-management, enabling them to continue to live as full and productive a life as possible, through education, equipment and or lifestyle changes. We also have the privilege of supporting people and their families at the end of their lives, working in close liaison with the Hospice Teams and Specialist Palliative Care Nurses.

Providing a high standard of care to patients in their own home or clinic environment, this will include a number of clinical competencies:

• End of life care - syringe driver and symptom management.

• CVAD management

• Catheters - male, female and suprapubic

• Complex wound care

• Drain management

• Compression/Dopplers

• Bladder Scanning

• Holistic assessment of needs

• Skin Integrity

• Nephrostomy care

There will be training provided via the Integrated Care Academy for the successful candidate.

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.