Job summary
Employer heading
Staff Nurse
Band 5
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.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed
Job overview
We are looking for a motivated individual to join our team of nurses working within our dermatology department at the Princess of Wales hospital . If you are eager to learn, have a flexible approach to work, reliable and enthusiastic, we would like to hear from you. You should be a Registered Nurse with a commitment to continuing professional development.
You will form part of the multidisciplinary team to ensure an excellent standard of care is provided which is collaborative, evidence based and patient focused
Main duties of the job
The post holder must be a registered and possess NMC registration.
To be responsible for the assessment of care needs, the development of care plans, the implementation and evaluation of these care plans.
To carry out all relevant forms of care without direct supervision and may be required to demonstrate procedures to and supervise qualified/unqualified staff.
May be expected to take charge of a Unit in the absence of the person with continuing responsibility, but not rostered regularly in charge.
To develop professional/working relationships with colleagues and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.
To provide and receive information which requires tact or persuasive skills and develop a rapport with patients, relatives and carers.
To demonstrate an understanding of the Health Board’s Mission Statement and adapt the key principles in providing a quality service.
To supervise junior staff and be able to teach qualified and unqualified staff, including basis and or post registration duties.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
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 15000 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
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered general nurse
Desirable criteria
- Insight into Dermatology
Skills
Essential criteria
- Assessment skills
Desirable criteria
- Welsh language
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
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alison Barnard
- Job title
- Dermatology unit manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 752102
- Additional information
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