Job summary
- Main area
- Falls and Bone Health
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Secondment: 9 months (until end March 2025)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 040-NMR532-0724
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr
- Town
- hengoed
- Salary
- £35,922 - £43,257 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Falls and Bone Health Specialist Nurse
Band 6
We encourage applications from those who consider themselves to have a disability and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
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
This is an exciting opportunity for 1 enthusiastic falls and bone health nurse to join the expanding team in Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr. This position is until March 2025 to meet the needs of the service
The role will involve autonomously examine, treat and support patients who have sustained falls or are living with the impact of falls, particularly fragility fractures
Promote evidence-based practice and act as an accountable role model
Be responsible for the provision of effective, efficient and appropriate high quality nursing care for patients who have experienced falls in the community or in the hospital setting. To manage fragility fracture (explaining diagnoses, sharing treatment options and monitoring compliance to treatment and its side effects)
The post holder will see patients within hospital and community settings and act at all times in accordance with the NMC Professional Code of Conduct and ABUHB policies. Provide responsive, flexible and patient centered services in line with NICE guidelines for the management of Falls and Bone Health.
Main duties of the job
Undertake comprehensive nursing assessments for patients with falls and osteoporosis, which may include physical examinations and comprehensive patient histories and accessing previous radiological investigations, GP letters and clinic letters.
Post holder will be supported by consultant for both face to face and virtual clinics.
Post holder will be trained as needed to deliver specialist bone health treatment in the community and expected to deliver ‘care closer to home’ and link with GP surgeries.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
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
- RGN
- Degree or working towards
- Experience at Band 5 level or above
Desirable criteria
- Community Nursing Qualification / Experience
- Clinical Patient Assessment
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of managing own workload
- Experience in teaching and providing professional support to nurses and other colleagues
Desirable criteria
- Health promotion/education or rehabilitation experience
- Experience of Palliative care setting
Aptitude and abilities
Essential criteria
- Clinical competence in Falls and Bone health Strategy
- Knowledge and understanding of the specialty
- Teaching and presenting skills
- Willingness to participate in research, conferences and publications
Desirable criteria
- Physical assessment course - Degree module
- Supplementary prescribing module
- Completion of non-medical referral for diagnostic imaging course
- Knowledge/ experience of research and audit
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Dr Inder Singh
- Job title
- Consultant Care of the elderly
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 802234
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