Community Clinical Practice Assessor

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Integrated Care Division and become part of the education and development team. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with the Matron – Education & Development, Quality Matron, Community Hospital and District Nurse staff to deliver effective, high quality, safe, specialised patient centred care. The post holder will support the continuing education, training and professional development for the community staff to promote the acquisition of new skills and knowledge.

The post holder will work within the Community Academy education programme to ensure that the new and existing staff acquire and maintain the professional standards and competencies when caring for patients in the community setting.

• Demonstrate clinical expertise and credibility in practice and keep clinical skills current to undertake Syringe drivers, catheters, negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT), Indwelling pleural catheter (Drains) care, central venous access device (CVAD) care, and venepuncture.
• Undertake all clinical nursing procedures and maintain clinical skills while demonstrating clinical leadership and acting as a role model for all grades of community staff.
• Contribute to the Community Academy and clinical skills environment to foster, implement, evaluate effective practice, and disseminate complex information through various approaches.
• Implement evidence-based patient care within the clinical area.
• Work a minimum of 75% of the time in the clinical area supporting staff to meet identified learning needs and assessing competencies.
• Ensure accurate and comprehensive nursing records are maintained using EMIS/ MAXIMS/ EPMA and appropriate documentation.
• Encourage and foster a culture that supports learning from adverse or untoward events and provide relevant training and support.
• Assess, review, and give constructive feedback about clinical skills and competencies of staff.
• Undertake all nursing procedures in accordance with Wye Valley Trust policies, guidelines, and procedures.

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.

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.

For more information about the role and responsibilities, please see the attached job description and person specification.