Job Description

We are redesigning our community services model and implementing a new Intermediate Care Team and therefore an exciting opportunity has arisen to employ Nurses to deliver an urgent community response services (provides care 8am to 9pm, 7 days a week) and will play a crucial role in providing essential support and care to individuals, with a focus on promoting independence, dignity, and well-being. This is an opportunity for someone who wishes to continue to progress their career in nursing.



The objective is to optimise safe and timely discharge from an inpatient stay for patients that need some form of continuing care or prevent admission with interventions that can be managed at home



The Senior Staff Nurse will work within the Intermediate Care (Hospital@Home) Service.



The post holder will support the Team Leader in the future development of the Intermediate Care (Hospital@Home) Service. This will also include the facilitation of integrated working with colleagues in Local Authorities and 3rd sector organisations to support individuals within their home.



The post holder will also contribute to the development and implementation of policies and procedures within their sphere of responsibility and where appropriate, will actively participate in training and education programmes, patient support groups, research, clinical audit, and service evaluation.



The post holder will be responsible for providing support to the team leader in the day-to-day management of the service. Assisting the team leader in the management and requirements of the nursing team by utilising effective management and leadership skills.

Welsh Skills Desirable:

This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn't mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn't 'fluency ', just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.



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.



You will locate the comprehensive detailed Job description and main responsibilities outlined for this post as a Senior Nurse within the Integrated Services in the attached documents.