Registered Nursing Associate - Hereford, United Kingdom - Wye Valley NHS Trust
Description
Are you a Registered Nursing Associate? Looking to venture into the community setting? If so, then the City Locality have a new and exciting opportunity for you.
The City Locality is currently recruiting a band 4 Registered Nursing Associate to join our supportive and dedicated team, based within the City of Hereford.
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.
The district nursing service operates between the hours of 8am-10pm and the post holder will be required to work shifts between 8am-8pm, including weekends.
Whilst undertaking an holistic nursing assessment, we aim to encourage patients to remain as independent as possible, in order to prevent hospital admissions.
Due to the nature of this role, the ability to meet the travel requirements of the post are essential.Main duties of this role include, but are not limited to;
- Medication Administration
- Wound Care
- Insulin administration
- Catheterisation & Catheter Management
- Pressure Area Care
- Venepuncture
- Removal of clips/sutures
- Leg ulcer management
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 wed 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.
To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view 'supporting documents' linked to this vacancy.
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