Staff Nurse - Leominster

NHS; Leominster; On-site; GBP 29,000 - 38,000; Full time

Job summary

Wye Valley NHS Trust in Herefordshire is seeking a Community Hospital Staff Nurse to provide holistic patient care within a supportive ward environment. You will join a multidisciplinary team, contribute to safe discharge planning, and champion patient safety and dignity.

We welcome flexible, compassionate professionals committed to high-quality care and ongoing development. This role involves working across our community hospital sites, including Leominster, with opportunities to grow your

Qualifications

• Must hold UK nursing registration.
• Disclosure check required (DBS).
• Experience in relevant clinical area.

Responsibilities

• Deliver holistic, high-quality patient care.
• Work within a multidisciplinary team to support recovery and independence.
• Contribute to safe discharge planning and patient flow.
• Champion patient safety, dignity and experience.
• Support patients and families with compassion and professionalism.

Skills

Leadership

Time management

Communication

Problem solving

Change management

Education

First/Second Registered Nurse

Job description

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Job overview

Ready for your next rewarding challenge?

Join our dynamic and supportive community hospital wards, where no two days are the same and your impact is truly felt.
We have 26 beds and is located in Tranquil environment with onsite parking for staff.

Why choose our community hospitals?

Why Join Us?

• Supportive, friendly ward teams
• Strong leadership and inclusive culture
• Excellent training & development opportunities
• Focus on staff wellbeing & work-life balance

Work in a close-knit, forward-thinking team where innovation, teamwork, and patient-centred care come together - and where your contribution truly makes a difference every day.

Informal visits welcome – come and meet the team and have a tour of the facilities on offer.

If you’re passionate about delivering outstanding care and want to grow your career with us, we’d love to hear from you.

We are ready to invest in your future.

Main duties of the job

About the Role

As a Community Hospital Staff Nurse, you will:

• Deliver high-quality, holistic patient care
• Work within a multidisciplinary team to support recovery and independence
• Contribute to safe discharge planning and patient flow
• Champion patient safety, dignity and experience
• Support patients and families with compassion and professionalism

Working for our organisation

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.

Worcestershire is our neighbouring county. The post holder will be required to travel between sites.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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

Person specification

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

• Leadership
• Time management of self and others
• Ability to communicate both verbally and in writing to a wide range of people
• Problem solving
• Experience of change management

Education & Qualifications

• First/Second Registered Nurse

Personal Attributes

• Flexible and Adaptable
• Ability to work well under pressure
• Works well as part of a team

Experience

• Experience within relevant clinical area

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.