Specialist Practitioner District Nurse Student (INTERNAL)
The closing date is 02 August 2026

Job summary
Wye Valley NHS Trust is offering an exciting opportunity for Registered Nurses currently working within the District Nurse service with a passion to develop their career.

We are inviting applications for sponsorship leading to a PG Dip and NMC recordable Specialist Practitioner Award (District Nursing). You must be able to demonstrate considerable experience in nursing, up to date extended clinical skills relevant to the service, leadership qualities, demonstrate delivery of evidence based practice and be passionate about your chosen field as well as share our Trusts commitments and values.

The programme involves taught modules at Birmingham City University and a clinical placement within the trust. The combination of clinical and academic content will enable you to deliver knowledge, clinical skills and leadership to support high quality, evidence based practice. You will focus on advanced history taking, physical examination and V300 independent and supplementary prescribing. You will also develop a robust understanding of complex case management and learn to use evidence to underpin outstanding delivery of care.

As a District Nurse, you will be passionate about leading a team of community nurses and support workers to deliver holistic nursing care to people in their won homes as part of an integrated locality team working with our MDT partners.

Main duties of the job

• To work in a clinical nursing capacity within a community setting, primarily within a person's home.
• To assess, identify and record an individual's nursing needs and their ability to undertake Activities of Daily living in the home environment.
• To complete risk assessments/screening prior to implementing assessment and /or intervention.
• Undertake specialist nursing assessments to minimise clinical and non-clinical risk in the workplace and take appropriate action in line with local guidelines
• To support an ethos of health promotion and self-management for all patients and empower users and families to participate in the management of their illness or disability.
• To be responsible for ensuring appropriate assessment of care needs, and the development, implementation and evaluation of specialised programmes of care are undertaken
• To be able to evaluate the clinical effectiveness of your intervention and adjust clinical practice accordingly, in line with Organisation's Clinical Governance guidelines.
• Support teams to provide information to patients, their families and carers both formal and informal, so that they can self-manage their condition where possible and make informed choices about their care plan, current and future care needs, Prepare the patient and their family/carer for changes in the patient's condition and support choice for end of life care.

About us
Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals 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 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its 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.

Details
Date posted: 17 July 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 6
Salary: £39,959 to £48,117 a year, per annum
Contract: Secondment
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 229-IC-8138365
Job locations: Various, Various, HR2 9RP, United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities
To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view the Job description and person specification attached to this vacancy in the supporting documents.

Person Specification
Education and qualifications
Essential

• RN1
• Active NMC registration
• Evidence of continued professional development via post graduate course
• PS/PA competency
• Broad range of clinical nursing skills e.g venepuncture, syringe driver, catheter, compression therapy etc

Experience
Essential

• Minimum 2 years community nursing experience
• Good knowledge of management of long term conditions

Interview
Essential

• 2 years community nursing experience
• Proven ability to study at MSc level 7 post grad

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address: Various, Various, HR2 9RP, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Matron - District Nursing
Glen Harris
glenda.harris@wvt.nhs.uk
07966595605