Job Description

The key principles of Wye Valley Trust are to improve the health and well-being of the people we serve in Herefordshire and surrounding areas. We have an exciting opportunity for the right candidate to join our wonderful District Nursing Team.



The Ross-On-wye District Nursing Team are a very supportive and dedicated team, we are an incredibly engaging, positive and hard-working team, providing care and support to patients in their own homes, as well as the wound clinic which is based at Ross Community Hospital.



PLEASE NOTE - This role will be predominantly running the Ross DN Team Wound Clinic which is based in Ross Community Hospital. Wound Clinic provides care and treatment for non-housebound patients for a variety of wounds, therefore a knowledge of how to manage and treat wounds is necessary. As part of this role you will be expected to undertake catheter changes, bladder scans, CVAD management, drains, nephrostomy care, Dopplers and Compression. The trust will provide training for all of these skills, you will be fully supported to develop within the clinic role.



The Wound clinic currently runs 4 days a week between 8 and 4pm, where the demand is high the clinic also runs on some bank holidays.



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

Wound Clinic Role:

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



Wound care/Dopplers/Compression

Managing chronic wounds in the Community. CVAD and drain management Chemotherapy disconnect Holistic assessments Post operative care following discharge Catheter changes/TWOC/bladder scans. Nephrostomy Care

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.



To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view 'supporting documents' linked to this vacancy.