Employer: Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type: NHS
Site: Ysbyty Cwm Rhondda
Town: Llwynypia
Salary: £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/02/2025 23:59
Senior Nurse, Ysbyty Cwm Rhondda
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. 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
As a Senior Nurse for our Community Hospital, you will provide professional leadership for the nursing teams within this area. You should possess significant relevant clinical experience at Band 7 or above and demonstrate a good understanding of Community Hospitals. You will need to demonstrate strong clinical and professional leadership within the Primary Care & Communities Care Group, being a visible and supportive role model.
In order to be effective in the role you will need to demonstrate an excellent understanding of patient flow, management process, Putting Things Right and Safeguarding. You must be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills and have the ability to work with autonomy to provide highly specialised professional advice to colleagues to ensure high standards of direct care delivery. This includes interpreting and implementing national policy and supporting systems for professional revalidation and performance management of ward managers that are accountable for quality, safe care.
As a key member of the Senior Nursing team, you will work closely with the Lead Nurse and Head of Nursing to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe and cost-effective patient-centered care. To succeed in this role, you will need to inspire and motivate through good communication skills. You must be willing to embrace a broad range of new challenges, possess the knowledge, and drive to create and deliver the best pathway for our patients.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will:
1. Be responsible for the professional leadership, management, and governance of Community hospitals within Cwm Taf Morgannwg.
2. Provide leadership, direction and development of registered Nursing and allied healthcare professional staff, to include professional support for the discharge Liaison Team.
3. Support the Senior Nursing Team and Service Manager to ensure the highest standard of nursing care is provided, monitored, and evaluated within the areas of responsibility.
4. Interpret national and health board policies and procedures and advise on the implementation of these for their area of responsibility.
5. Support processes and audits to monitor the quality of care, clinical practices, incidents/claims, and professional registration.
6. Undertake investigations of clinical incidents, complaints and professional issues following University Health Board Policy and acting upon findings/recommendations.
7. Be part of a Senior Manager/Midwifery on-call rota, and will be expected to be part of an on-call roster, covering an identified shift in line with the current agreed on-call process.
8. Ensure that their teams continually deliver improvements to patient services aligned to the principles of Values Based Healthcare, ensuring a culture of continuous improvement is embedded throughout their area with improvement plans in place.
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 our 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.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Current NMC registration
* Master’s Level or possess skills, knowledge and/or training and experience to its equivalency.
Experience
* Substantial post-registration experience including clinical leadership, and team management and have a reputation for professional innovation and excellence.
* Experience working within health and social service systems, both at local and strategic levels.
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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