Acute Medical Staff Nurse
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 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
Acute Medical Staff Nurse - POW
AMU are privileged to have expanded our existing team of hard-working nurses and health care support workers, across both the Acute Medical and Acute Care of the Elderly Units. If you are dedicated, motivated and enjoy a challenge or would like to be part of a dynamic, hard working and friendly team then we urge you to apply!
We want to invest in you, your education and your development. We aim to send all of our nurses on Advanced Life Support (ALS) and support your learning and educational needs by sending you on courses in the University of South Wales. We will offer a flexible approach to work as best as we can with your off duty requests as we acknowledge the need for having a healthy work life balance ensures the team are happy, which in turn ensures our patients receive the safest and most efficient care.
Main duties of the job
In your first few months we will ensure that you are trained in many skills that you will need. This includes cannulation and phlebotomy, male and female catheterisation , POC testing, blood transfusion and sampling, ILS , medicines management and IV drugs administration as well as progressing on to triage and assessment skills when you have sufficient experience.A period of time will be given for you to work with your mentor in preparation of your new role working in both AMU/ACE on a rotational basis.
We have extended our bed base and have also extended the service we offer our patients. We have had significant investment in to Care of the Elderly, with a dedicated team of Consultants and Advanced Clinical Practitioners who work with us as we provide excellent care for our patients.In addition to this service we pride ourselves on providing a "Same Day Emergency Care" service, this prevents hospital admissions and has speedy access to investigations.
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
Experience
Essential criteria- Previous experience of working in a ward environment
- Taken charge of ward/department
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Evidence of continuous professional development; Ability to demonstrate responsibilities under NMC Code of Conduct
- IV devices; IV additives; ILS
Registration
Essential criteria- Active UK NMC registration
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.