About this role
Job summary
Leominster Community Hospital provides high quality patient care within a friendly team environment to a diverse client group within the GP Led 26 bedded inpatient facility taking step down patients from the acute hospital and step up patients from the local Community.
Flexibility is essential for the post and shifts will be worked on a rotational basis over 7 days a week to include bank holidays.
Main duties of the job
We work within a multidisciplinary team providing independence and patient centred care, implementing realistic individualised goals to proactive discharge planning.
For further information or to arrange an informal visit, please contact Beverley Johns, Ward Manager/CH Sister on 01568 617338
About us
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.
Job description Job responsibilities
To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view the Job description and person specification attached to this vacancy in the supporting documents.
Person Specification
Experience Essential
Experience within relevant clinical areas
Education & Qualifications Essential
NMC registration
Skills, Knowledge & Abilities Essential
Leadership Time management of self & others Ability to influence at management and team level Good knowledge of government initiatives
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address Leominster Community Hospital
Leominster
HR6 8QR
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)