Main area: Acute Clinical Team - Hospital avoidance / Crisis response service
Grade Band: 8a
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 110-NMR095-0225
Employer: Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Prince Charles Hospital
Town: Merthyr Tydfil
Salary: £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 11/03/2025 23:59
Senior Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Haematology
Band 8a
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil, and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill health, promoting better health, providing excellent services, and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary, and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity, and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment-related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated and dynamic Senior Advanced Nurse Practitioner to join our Haematology team in CTM UHB.
We are a small, friendly, and experienced team; we strive to deliver excellent patient care, working closely with our colleagues in the multidisciplinary team to ensure patients and their families receive care tailored to meet their individual needs.
Above all, we are looking for individuals who share and behave in accordance with CTM’s values.
We manage patients as inpatients, on our Haematology day unit, and as outpatients. The ANP will influence and lead in all these areas.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be the first ACP in the Haematology nursing team in CTM UHB. They will both clinically and managerially lead the service and support the team of consultant hematologists to manage patients.
The Senior Advanced Practitioner will act as the initial senior clinical point of escalation, supporting and advising the team with clinical problems and, when appropriate, will maintain a close relationship with the Consultant to safely manage the caseload.
The Senior Advanced Practitioner will also act as the overall manager for the clinical nurse specialists, providing line management to senior staff, supporting operational leaders in staff management, and working with the wider team of senior staff and managers throughout Haematology.
The Senior Advanced Practitioner will engage in service design projects, workshops, and network with multiple key stakeholders throughout the health service, private, and education sectors to further practice development and push the agenda for growing and developing Haematology in CTM UHB. Growing awareness of the service to ensure good service uptake and evidencing the effectiveness of the service to inform the future business plan and growth of the service.
Working for our organisation
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:
* 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 organisation but of the diverse communities that we serve.
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.
Please see the attached Job Description, Technical Document, and draft Scope of Practice to learn more about what this post entails. The draft Scope of Practice will be completed with the successful candidate upon their appointment to the post where their individual skills, abilities, and strengths can be reflected in the document.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person specification
Qualifications and Knowledge
* Professional Registration (NMC, HCPC)
* Level 7 Education (Masters) relevant to the area of practice
* Advanced Specialist Knowledge of patient pathways
* Advanced theoretical knowledge and practical experience to carry out clinical consultation and/or examination relevant to the area of practice.
* Evidence of maintaining an Advanced Practice Portfolio
* Management/Leadership qualification or possess equivalent skills and experience
Experience
* Extensive post-registration clinical experience in advanced practice within the specialty area.
* Evidence of performing at Advanced Level of Practice.
* Proven track record of working collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams.
Skills and Attributes
* Clinical skills competence for environment/setting.
* Demonstrate leadership/supervision experience.
Other
* Ability to travel in a timely manner throughout the organisation.
* Able to work hours flexibly.
* Welsh Language Skills are desirable at level 1 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh.
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 Skilled Worker visa, 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 Work in the UK. 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.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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