Are you looking for an opportunity to be an influential member of the leadership team for our Older Adult Mental Health wards?
This career enhancing opportunity has arisen for a Senior Nurse who wishes to further progress their nursing career and play a key role in delivering safe quality care to our patients and developing services in line with the modernisation agenda for our older adult mental health services.
The role of the Senior Nurse is fundamental to managing ward teams to ensure patients receive safe, high-quality mental health care and a co-produced and positive patient experience which is responsive to the needs of patients, families, and their carers.
This role provides visible clinical knowledge, expertise and leadership for nurses and other health professionals providing care in an inpatient setting whilst working collaboratively with community mental health services and wider partners to ensure safe, high quality and effective delivery of care across the older adult acute mental health care pathway.
Interviews to be held on 26/2/25.
Responsibilities:
1. Provide leadership and direction to all registered and unregistered nurses working in the delivery of adult acute mental health inpatient wards.
2. Direct, lead and motivate nursing staff to ensure the highest standards of professionalism, efficiency and effectiveness in service delivery.
3. Ensure the Health Board’s aims and objectives and associated targets and strategies are clearly communicated to all relevant staff so that effective contributions to implementation of operational plans can be made.
4. Direct, lead and motivate nursing and other staff to maintain effective patient flow through acute inpatient services (mental health).
5. Ensure that activity is aligned to Health Board plans and strategies.
Desirable:
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services to almost 400,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales.
The Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences. In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
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