Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
About
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is the operational name of Aneurin Bevan University Local Health Board. The Health Board was established on the 1st October 2009 and covers the areas of Blaenau Gwent, Caerphilly, Monmouthshire, Newport, Torfaen and South Powys.
As an Employer, we are adaptable, agile and flexible and can offer variations to working practices in line with our Agile Hybrid Framework and Home Working Policy. The Health Board employs over 13,000 staff, two thirds of whom are involved in direct patient care. There are more than 250 consultants in a total of over 1000 hospital and general practice doctors, 6,000 nurses, midwives, allied professionals and community workers. The Health Board is led by the Chairman, non-executive directors, the Chief Executive and other executive directors. The Board is supported by the Senior Management Team.
Key details
Location
Site: Caldicot Health Centre
Address: Cae Mawr Road
Town: Caldicot
Postcode: NP26 4EW
Major / Minor Region: Newport
Contract type & working pattern
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Salary
Salary: £30,420 - £37,030 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 5)
Specialty
Main area: School Nursing
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh; any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are shortlisted for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post; therefore please check your account regularly.
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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board supports flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job Overview
We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Band 5 Registered Nurse to join our School Nursing Team within the Monmouthshire Borough.
This post is a permanent position, 22.5 hours per week, all year round to be based at Caldicot Health Centre.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Registered Nurse to join our forward-thinking and dynamic School Nursing Team.
Our School Nursing service has an ethos of compassion and innovation with staff well-being, collaborative working, and positive outcomes for children and young people at the heart of our services.
This role is to support the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse) to meet A School Nursing Framework for Wales and to ensure the delivery of the Healthy Child (Wales) Programme, including the Child Measurement Programme, Vision Screening Programme, and school-age immunisations schedules within the allocated borough and Gwent-wide as required.
You will need to have well-developed communication skills, be able to work as part of a team and independently. Partnership working, both with parents and other agencies, is highlighted as key to providing high-quality services to children.
Experience of working with children, or within immunisations/community experience is desirable. It is an advantage if the successful candidate has gained experience within a similar role; however, full training will be given. The successful candidates must be flexible to the needs of the service and able to meet the geographical needs of the role.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh applicants are equally welcome to apply for this post.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow, and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary, and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications, and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work-life balance, provide occupational health support, and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high-quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK/RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting the UK Government website. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.
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. Welsh language skills are desirable.
Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
* Ability to deliver presentations to groups.
* Ability to work well as part of a team.
* Ability to communicate effectively to engage with children and young people.
* Good organisational skills.
* Good oral, written, and IT skills.
* An understanding of the childhood immunisation programmes.
* Sound knowledge of changes within the NHS.
* Teaching Skills.
Desirable criteria
* Ability to speak Welsh.
* Understanding of inter-agency working.
* An understanding of the principles of public health.
Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience at Band 5 level.
* Evidence of working in the community.
* Evidence of working with school-age children and/or experience of delivering routine immunisations.
* Interest in Health Promotion.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Registered Nurse with one of the following Qualifications: RNA, RNC, RGN, RSCN, Child Branch.
* Evidence of development of professional practice / Specialist Professional Qualification.
Further details / informal visits contact
Name: Claire Hiscocks
Job title: Public Health Nursing Manager
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 07969503372
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