Job summary

The Urology service has links with neighbouring specialist cancer teams including University Hospitals Birmingham and the Wye Valley NHS Trust as part of the Urology Area Network. The Worcestershire Urology Specialist MDT is normally attended by 2-3 Oncologists, 2 Consultant Radiologists, a Pathologist, and all of the key members of the Urology clinical team. Videoconferencing with sub-specialist MDTs in adjacent Centre is also available. Urology services in the West Midlands are currently undergoing a comprehensive review with proposals around Clinical Alliances between providers under consideration. It is an exciting time to join the Urology department within Worcestershire, as we progress through the Trusts Clinical Services strategy. The trust will soon be replacing existing theatre infrastructure with a new 4 operating department complex housing ultraclean-laparoscopic enabled and robotic suites. Novel surgical techniques for treatment of BPH are to be implemented in addition to enhanced community Urology services, delivered in collaboration with our system partners. The ongoing reconfiguration of Surgical Services will deliver co-location of elective pelvis specialties Hospital: Urology,at the Alexandra Urogynaecology, Colorectal Surgery & Gynaecology. The high degree of service interdependency and collaboration between these specialties delivers an opportunity to realise our vision of delivering a Centre of Excellence for Urology & Pelvic surgery.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will offer high quality day to day care to Urology and General Surgery patients at Alexandra Hospital Redditch, and deliver a first class clinical service to include activities equivalent to Middle Grade/Registrar level. They will offer high quality day to day care of patients and deliver a first class clinical service to include outpatient/diagnostic clinics, day case theatre procedures, elective theatre activity, inpatient care as required. There may be exciting opportunities to support the initiation of our Robotic Surgery program through tableside assistance with training as required. The post holder(s) will be required to participate in an on call commitment. The post holder(s) will have a continuing responsibility for the care of the patients in their charge. This will include responsibility for undertaking the administrative duties associated with the care of patients and wider administration for the department. The Trust may consider evening working (e.g. three session theatre days) as scheduled activity and may also wish to reach agreement with the individual about the possibility of future scheduling of routine work on a Saturday with other colleagues in the Urology Department. The post holder will undertake professional supervision and management of the junior medical staff.

About us

Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.

The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester

Our workforce is more than 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. Our values, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.

Being open and honest

Ensuring people feel cared for

Showing respect to everyone

We are committed to developing a culture of continuous improvement by embedding the principles of our Improvement System.

We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.

DBS Checks and Costs

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Job summary

We currently have 1 full time post available.

To perform laboratory reception duties including: checking sample quality, ensuring that appropriate samples are received for the tests requested, assigning laboratory numbers to samples and entering requests into the laboratory computer system. In addition the post includes answering telephone and personal enquiries, filing, sending out printed reports and issuing stocks to service users, obtaining blood from patients, daily maintenance tasks, some laboratory testing and running the pre-analytics analyser.

The post holder will be need to be available to support the 24/7 service as required.

Main duties of the job

• Receiving, sorting, numbering and pre-analytical preparation of potentially infectious clinical specimens.
• Ensuring that the correct samples are received and the correct test codes are accurately assigned.
• To answer and make enquiries to/from wards, departments and GP surgeries. Communicate effectively and professionally with other laboratory staff, hospital staff and other service users,
• To maintain confidentiality at all times. This will involve dealing with confidential and sensitive patient information.
• To perform receptionist duties dealing with patients, visitors and other hospital staff.
• To perform simple analytical processes under the supervision of qualified staff, including near patient testing.
• Participate in the effective running of the department, including performing tasks required by the line manager and appropriate to grade, ensuring that the quality of work performed is of the highest standard and that work is performed in a timely manner.
• Ensure that all tasks are performed in accordance with current policies, all relevant regulatory requirements and with due regard to underpinning scientific principles. To ensure that laboratory quality procedures are followed.
• To assist in the safe disposal of used specimens and waste products.

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.

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and highly skilled clinician to join the Single Point of Access (SPA) team as a Band 6 Therapy Clinical Decision Maker. The post holder will provide clinical assessment, triage, decision-making and leadership for referrals with identified therapy needs, working within a complex and fast-paced service. The role will be 2 days, 8-6 (Monday to Friday), based at the Community Response Hub.

The Single Point of Access provides a centralised route into community services, ensuring patients are assessed and directed to the most appropriate service based on their individual needs. The Therapy Clinical Decision maker will play a key role in delivering safe, responsive and effective clinical triage, supporting timely access to community-based care, to prevent avoidable deterioration, hospital attendance and admission.

This is a telephone-based clinical role, requiring the post holder to undertake comprehensive clinical triage and assessment remotely. The post holder will use clinical reasoning and professional judgement to identify clinical risk, determine urgency and make autonomous decisions regarding the most appropriate pathway of care.

This opportunity would suit an experienced registered clinician with strong assessment and decision-making skills who is confident managing clinical risk remotely and is motivated to contribute to the development of an integrated, responsive and patient-centred Single Point of Access service.

Main duties of the job

Undertake comprehensive, predominantly telephone-based clinical triage and assessment of patients identified as having therapy needs, with a wide range of acute, complex and changing health and care needs.

Complete triage and/or screening of urgent and more routine therapy referrals, filtering referrals for UCR and Neighbourhood team, identifying the most appropriate onward service.

Work alongside a Senior Triage Clinician, HUB GP being part of a MDT clinical decision-making team. Using clinical reasoning, professional judgement and evidence-based practice to determine clinical urgency, level of risk and the most appropriate course of action.

Recognise signs of acute deterioration, red flags and safeguarding concerns, taking immediate and appropriate action as required.

Work collaboratively across organisational and professional boundaries, liaising with community teams, primary care, ambulance services, acute providers, social care and other system partners to identify and coordinate the most appropriate pathway of care.

Contribute to the development, implementation and review of clinical pathways, triage frameworks, protocols, standard operating procedures and service guidance.

Participate in clinical audit, quality improvement, service evaluation and other clinical governance activities, using findings to support improvements in the quality, safety and effectiveness of the SPA service

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.

Job summary

We encourage early application as we reserve the right to close this post once sufficient candidates have applied.

Hereford City District Nursing Team

Have you always wondered what community nursing entails? Would you like a new challenge or have you had experience on the community and wish to pursue it as a career, then this is an opportunity for you. Due to the promotion of the current post holder we have a part time Band 5 community staff nurse vacancy within City District Nursing Team. As a Community Nurse you will become highly skilled in many different areas using many extended clinical skills and where no two days are the same.

The team supports patients registered with the 2 Primary Care Networks which are co-located in the City of Herefordshire. It is a large team with a caseload of around 850 patients, this allows a higher level of support for staff new to the community, allowing supervision for competency achievement.

Our base is at Belmont and we share a large office with neighbourhood team therapists which enables excellent levels of communication regarding shared patient care and concerns.

Main duties of the job

Most of our work is with housebound patients but, we also run a District Nurse Clinic for non-housebound patients who need the very specific skills of a District Nurse to support their treatment.

The focus of District Nursing is to support patients towards self-management, enabling them to continue to live as full and productive a life as possible, through education, equipment and or lifestyle changes. We also have the privilege of supporting people and their families at the end of their lives, working in close liaison with the Hospice Teams and Specialist Palliative Care Nurses.

As community teams we enjoy working with many other health and social care professionals, Care Homes and Care Agencies. All staff are expected to record their work electronically on EMIS, our electronic patient record system which links into the GP services to allow a seamless service provision. Training and on-going support will be given to support staff with EMIS and other electronic systems they will need to use.

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.

Job summary

Hereford City District Nursing Team

Due to the current post holder being successful in obtaining a place of the DN Specialist Practitioner Course at Birmingham University we are able to offer a fixed term Band 5 community nurse post.

Have you always wondered what community nursing entails? Would you like a new challenge or have you had experience on the community and wish to pursue it as a career, then this is an opportunity for you. Due to the promotion of the current post holder we have a full time Band 5 community staff nurse vacancy within City District Nursing Team. As a Community Nurse you will become highly skilled in many different areas using many extended clinical skills and where no two days are the same.

The team supports patients registered with the 2 Primary Care Networks which are co-located in the City of Herefordshire. It is a large team with a caseload of around 850 patients, this allows a higher level of support for staff new to the community, allowing supervision for competency achievement.

Our base is at Belmont and we share a large office with neighbourhood team therapists which enables excellent levels of communication regarding shared patient care and concerns.

Main duties of the job

Most of our work is with housebound patients but, we also run a District Nurse Clinic for non-housebound patients who need the very specific skills of a District Nurse to support their treatment.

The focus of District Nursing is to support patients towards self-management, enabling them to continue to live as full and productive a life as possible, through education, equipment and or lifestyle changes. We also have the privilege of supporting people and their families at the end of their lives, working in close liaison with the Hospice Teams and Specialist Palliative Care Nurses.

As community teams we enjoy working with many other health and social care professionals, Care Homes and Care Agencies. All staff are expected to record their work electronically on EMIS, our electronic patient record system which links into the GP services to allow a seamless service provision. Training and on-going support will be given to support staff with EMIS and other electronic systems they will need to use.

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.

Job summary

We encourage early application as we reserve the right to close this post once sufficient candidates have applied.

Hereford City District Nursing Team

Due to maternity leave we are able to offer a fixed term Band 5 community nurse post.

Have you always wondered what community nursing entails? Would you like a new challenge or have you had experience on the community and wish to pursue it as a career, then this is an opportunity for you. Due to the promotion of the current post holder we have a full time Band 5 community staff nurse vacancy within City District Nursing Team. As a Community Nurse you will become highly skilled in many different areas using many extended clinical skills and where no two days are the same.

The team supports patients registered with the 2 Primary Care Networks which are co-located in the City of Herefordshire. It is a large team with a caseload of around 850 patients, this allows a higher level of support for staff new to the community, allowing supervision for competency achievement.

Our base is at Belmont and we share a large office with neighbourhood team therapists which enables excellent levels of communication regarding shared patient care and concerns.

Main duties of the job

Most of our work is with housebound patients but, we also run a District Nurse Clinic for non-housebound patients who need the very specific skills of a District Nurse to support their treatment.

The focus of District Nursing is to support patients towards self-management, enabling them to continue to live as full and productive a life as possible, through education, equipment and or lifestyle changes. We also have the privilege of supporting people and their families at the end of their lives, working in close liaison with the Hospice Teams and Specialist Palliative Care Nurses.

As community teams we enjoy working with many other health and social care professionals, Care Homes and Care Agencies. All staff are expected to record their work electronically on EMIS, our electronic patient record system which links into the GP services to allow a seamless service provision. Training and on-going support will be given to support staff with EMIS and other electronic systems they will need to use.

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.