Job summary
- Main area
- Community Children's Nurse
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-NMR284-0624
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community Children's Nursing Team
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £28,834 - £35,099 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
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Community Children's 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
The Post Holder will provide nursing care, working in partnership to provide a high quality sustainable service for children and their carers within the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Community.
- To provide advice within the Community setting, working closely with the multi-disciplinary team.
- To work as part of the children’s community nursing team in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating the holistic nursing and health care needs of children and young people with a range of conditions from acute illness to complex, life limiting/life threatening.
- This nursing care and support is provided in a flexible manner to be responsive to the needs of the child and family, with a plan to provide a 7 day a week, 24 hour service covering the Cwm Taf Morgannwg Health Community.
To implement the Children and Young People’s continuing care framework, maximising accessibility of community based services and minimising the necessity for hospital admissions, by ensuring liaison and coordination of services to support young people’s individual needs and choices.
Main duties of the job
- To work as a member of the CCNT, to deliver responsive and flexible community based nursing care and support to children and young people with health care needs in a diverse range of settings.
- To develop skills to function as an autonomous and competent practitioner in the assessment and delivery of high standards of care and treatment, acting as a key worker for families, reporting to the Team Leader.
- To work in collaboration and partnership with other agencies who deliver services to children and young people in care facilities and educational settings, working within agreed protocols.
To provide advice and education of a high quality which is child and family centred, and is based on assessed need which promotes social inclusion.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; 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
- Current NMC
Experience
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (Child or Learning Disability)
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
- Gareth Turtle
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07776475454
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