Care Home Clinical Practitioner
Wye Valley NHS Trust
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Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge?
Do you have a background in Tissue Viability?
Are you passionate about delivering a high standard of education and training to ensure Nursing Home patients & Care Home residents receive the gold standard care, including wound care and where appropriate, avoiding hospital admission?
Then this could be the role for you - we are looking for enthusiastic Band 6 Nurse to join our well established and successful team to engage with care home managers to develop and sustain competence of care home staff to facilitate person centred care in order to improve quality and, where required, to utilise clinical skills to educate and support staff in care homes.
If this sounds like the opportunity you have been looking for then we would love to hear from you.
The Care Home Clinical Practitioners work within the Integrated Care Division, WVT and in close partnership working with Herefordshire Council Quality Assurance Team to ensure the successful delivery of clinical support and advice to Residential and Nursing Homes across Herefordshire and to provide direct care delivery training and support to care homes.
Main duties of the job
The Care Home Clinical Practitioners duties include providing specialist clinical advice and direct clinical care where required to support care home teams and individual care home staff on a range of quality improvements and ensuring that any interventions implemented are in line with best practice.
The role will link with WVT Tissue Viability, Herefordshire Council, PCNs and care homes to provide the gold standard education and support in wound care
About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT and the George Eliot Hospital 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 3,000 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.
Date posted
23 May 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£35,392 to £42,618 a year pa, pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
229-IC-5300471
Job locations
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Hereford
HR1 2ER
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)