Job summary
Employer heading
Staff Nurse, Cardiology/Endocrinology
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.
Job overview
Staff Nurse, Ward 4, Cardiology/Endocrinology
We are so excited to expand our amazing team of registered nurses so if you want a change, a challenge or just want to be part of a dynamic, hard working and friendly team then please apply for this role.
Ward 4 is a specialty ward, caring for patients with cardiology , diabetes & endocrine patients who require high level of care.
This advert is for extra RN's to increase the nurse staffing to ensure the ward is staffed appropriately and safely for the high level care we provide to patients in 2 designated bays within the ward (to level 4 and 5 patients).
We want to invest in you, your education and your development are extremely important to us. We aim to send all 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 be as flexible as we can with your off duty requests as we acknowledge the need for flexible working and having a healthy work life balance ensures the team are happy, which in turn ensures our patients receive the safest and most efficient care.
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 catheterisation , POC testing, blood transfusion and sampling, ILS , medicines management and IV drugs administration.
Main duties of the job
The ward is committed to ensuring the best outcomes to acutely unwell patients with cardiology and endocrine conditions. This will involve the skills needed to nurse level 5 patients in designated high care bays.
A period of time will be given for you to work with your mentor in preparation of your new role and excellent support is provided by an experienced group of ward sisters.
Please contact the team for any informal visits or information, we would love to meet you.
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 tea
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
- UK NMC registered
Desirable criteria
- ALS provider
- Post graduate university course
Experience
Essential criteria
- RN with post registration experiance
Desirable criteria
- Cardiology/endocrine experience
- High dependency or CCU experience
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
- Sarah Thorne
- Job title
- Senior Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 753628
- Additional information
Emma Thomas
Ward manager
01656 752935
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