An exciting opportunity for a Band 5 staff nurse to join our multi-professional Intermediate Frailty hospital avoidance service.
This post is based within the Acute Clinical Team in Bridgend, offering frailty crisis response and acute clinical management to patients in their own homes within the community.
We welcome applicants from dedicated, compassionate, and professional nurses who are committed to providing high standards of care and are committed to ongoing professional development.
If this post is of interest to you, we welcome informal visits and discussions around the service.
Main duties of the job
Clinical assessment and monitoring of patients, involving:
1. Undertaking patient observations and vital signs, weights, and taking venous and capillary blood testing to inform clinical decision-makers on treatments and therapies for a variety of acute clinical problems and diseases.
2. Making clinical judgments on a patient's condition and following the ACT escalation protocols to ensure appropriate clinical response from the team.
3. Collecting other investigations including non-blood biochemistry and microbiology samples, notably taking Electrocardiograms (ECGs), bladder scans, or 24-hour blood pressure monitoring.
4. Undertaking screening cognitive assessments such as Abbreviated Mental Tests, 'MOCAs', and 4AT delirium screening.
About us
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board is part of the NHS Wales family. Our Health Board provides primary, secondary, and community health and wellbeing services to around 450,000 people living in three County Boroughs: Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf.
We live by our core values and behaviours:
* We listen, learn, and improve.
* We treat everyone with respect.
* We all work together as one team.
We are a proud local employer; around 80% of our 15,000 workforce live within our region, making our staff not only the lifeblood of our organization but of the diverse communities that we serve.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for the outline of this post.
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential
* UK NMC Registered Nurse
Desirable
* Evidence of Post Registration Study
* Evidence of competence in venepuncture and cannulation
Experience
Essential
* Experience as a Registered Nurse
Desirable
* Experience working in a Multidisciplinary team setting
* Community experience
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential
* Ability to demonstrate clinical knowledge base and experience and adapt them to the community setting
* Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
* Team working skills
* Problem-solving skills
* Ability to work unsupervised
Desirable
* Ability to speak Welsh
Values
Essential
* Self-motivated
* Ability to adapt and work flexibly
* Enthusiasm and commitment
* Commitment to maximizing quality of care delivered
* Commitment to Continuous Professional Development
Other
Essential
* Ability to travel throughout UHB locality in a timely manner as this is a Community-based post.
* Able to work hours flexibly.
Employer details
Employer name
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Address
Trem y Mor
Bettws Road
Bridgend
CF32 8UN
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