Community Nursing Sister/Charge Nurse - Hereford City Team
The closing date is 01 December 2025
Job summary
Would you describe yourself as innovative?
Do you feel that you have leadership skills that could help to deliver collaborative teamwork?
Due to the current post holder acquiring an exciting development opportunity, the City District Nursing Team is offering a 30 hour Band 6 Community / District Nurse contract
We are a big team and pride ourselves on being supportive and take opportunities in assisting with career progression.
Through excellent caseload management and dedicated administrator support for the team, we have created more time to spend with our patients and we operate in a calm and professional environment.
There are fantastic opportunities for training and maintaining your clinical competencies as well as developing your management and leadership skills.
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, enabling you to complete documentation and paperwork efficiently, in real-time.
Main duties of the job
The District Nursing Service aims to provide an excellent standard of evidence-based care with the patient always at the centre .
As a service we can also provide unplanned nursing intervention to patients in their homes and are part of an integrated service that supports patients to remain in their home environment.
You will be one of 6 Sisters / Charge Nurses in the team all hold a caseload of no more than 150 patients.
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.
Details
Date posted
13 November 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£38,682 to £46,580 a year pa pro rata, pay with enhancements for out of hours working
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
229-IC-7610124
Job locations
Vaughan Building
Ruckhall Lane, Belmont
Hereford
HR2 9RP
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Vaughan Building
Ruckhall Lane, Belmont
Hereford
HR2 9RP
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
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