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Job summary

Main area
Lower Limb
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday - no unsociable hours)
Job ref
229-IC-7733265
Employer
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Ledbury
Town
Ledbury
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 pa pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
10/02/2026 09:00

Employer heading

NHS

Lower Limb Nurse Specialist

Band 6

 

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Job overview

Are you a motivated and skilled nurse with a passion for lower limb care? We are delighted to offer an opportunity for a Band 6 Lower Limb Nurse Specialist to join our well‑established, forward‑thinking community service within Herefordshire.

This role is primarily based across Bromyard and Ledbury, working with patients in community clinics and home settings, as part of a supportive and experienced multidisciplinary team.

Our Lower Limb Service is a highly regarded and longstanding service within Herefordshire, committed to evidence‑based practice, innovation, and continuous improvement. We are proud of our patient‑centred approach and our strong professional reputation across the county.

The service actively embraces new models of care, clinical developments, and service transformation, ensuring staff are supported to work at the top of their licence and develop advanced clinical skills.

We offer -

  • A supportive and experienced clinical team
  • A stable, well‑established service with a positive culture
  • Opportunities for professional development and specialist training
  • Flexible working where possible to support work‑life balance
  • The opportunity to work in beautiful rural Herefordshire, serving close‑knit local communities

Main duties of the job

We are looking for someone who:

  • Is a registered nurse (NMC) with substantial experience in lower limb or tissue viability care
  • Has strong clinical assessment and decision‑making skills
  • Is confident working autonomously while valuing team collaboration
  • Is enthusiastic about service development and improving patient outcomes
  • Holds (or is willing to work towards) relevant specialist qualifications

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see Job description for overview of main responsibilities. This role will provide lower limb services within a designated locality but may be required to cross cover the service across Herefordshire.

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse with proven post registration experience working with patients with a variety of wounds
  • Leg Ulcer Management module at degree level
  • Leg Ulcer in-house 2 day course plus competencies
  • Mentorship Course
  • Evidence of continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
  • Tissue Viability related qualification at degree level
  • Post graduate teaching qualification or a comparable level of experience (or willingness to work toward)
  • Independent non-medical prescriber or willingness to undertake.
  • V150 Prescribing course

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Clinical Audit
  • Wound Care and Tissue Viability Practice
  • Current research, practice development in wound care and tissue viability
  • Care pathways for wound care and leg ulcer management

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of leadership and management skills
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of change management.
  • Experience and knowledge of audit systems and research

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Alison Barker
Job title
Tissue Viability Lead Nurse
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07773 335193
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