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Job summary

Main area
Complex Care
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
37.5 hours per week (Full time - 37.5 hours per week)
Job ref
040-NMR321-0524-A
Employer
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
2nd Floor Cwmbran House
Town
Pontypool
Salary
£44,398 - £50,807 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
08/08/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board logo

Lead Nurse CHC & Care Home Governance

Band 7

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Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process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

The main duties of the posts are to assess and review care for individuals with complex health care needs within the community and care homes.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity has a risen for a band 7 post within the CHC & Care Home Governance Team. The successful applicant will have experience across the areas of CHC, safeguarding and care home governance. The position will be aligned to a locality Senior Nurse, and work collaboratively and flexibly with other localities where there are increased work demands, as part of the wider developments to manage the workflows more equitably across these areas of work.

This post holder would be responsible for working jointly with health, social care and independent sector colleagues, and have a key role with monitoring the contracts with care homes and quality of patient safety and the safeguarding agenda; providing professional advice, support, guidance to professionals and families concerning all aspects of CHC.

Vital to this appointment are excellent communication and interpersonal skills, working collaboratively with team colleagues, managing priorities of a case load, having excellent analytical skills to interpret information, preparing reports of a high standard that are understood by the person/people who they are written for. 

The role will be based at Cwmbran House, Mamhilad Park Estate, Pontypool but you will be required to travel to other parts of the Health Boards services, care homes and local authority or other service areas.

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. 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
  • Educated to Master’s Degree Level or demonstrable equivalent knowledge and experience
  • Evidence of CPD – portfolio of professional development activities.
Desirable criteria
  • An appropriate postgraduate management and/or professional qualification.

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Professional knowledge supplemented by speciality training and experience in complex care.
  • Regulation & Inspection Social Care Act (Wales).
  • Safeguarding Adults at Risk Policy and Procedures.
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge and understanding of primary, secondary and continuing care services
  • Experience of chairing complex meetings with a multi-disciplinary/agency context

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Experience of working in a professional capacity within an NHS setting
  • Safeguarding meetings and undertaking safeguarding investigations.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of Continuing NHS healthcare assessment process
  • Experience of working in community/primary care services experience of working with the voluntary and or independent sector.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Nicola Beerenbrock
Job title
Senior Nurse
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01495 363110
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