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Job overview

An exciting leadership opportunity has arisen for an inspirational Senior Nurse to join a friendly, ambitious and exciting Public Health Directorate. Do you share a passion to protect our population, and have the skills to lead others to do so? If so we would love to hear from you.  

We are looking for a dynamic and motivated individual who will provide leadership to develop and implement immunisation plans to reduce inequalities in immunisation and improve uptake rates across the Health Board. We are seeking an individual with developed project management skills, and experience in governance processes and people. You will lead learning and development initiatives, drive innovation, foster a culture of conscious learning. You will ensure effective project management in Immunisation. and service development activities across Hywel Dda ensuring  the implementation of Welsh Government and Public Health Wales' initiatives, Local and National Policies, and  the National Immunisation Framework.

Main duties of the job

You will be a specialist clinical expert on a broad range of vaccination and immunisation matters, as well as  having the expertise to plan and co-ordinate a local response to wider health protection priorities, working closely with the directorate's Health Protection Manager. Working with autonomy to provide highly specialised advice to colleagues across primary, secondary care and third sector organisations, you will  support the clinical senior team to be able to deliver training across all relevant areas. Being the lead in the development of standards and audit to underpin best practice, you will evaluate new initiatives to improve immunisation uptake for our population health and wellbeing. 

Interviews to be held on 14/10/24

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

Working for our organisation

Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:

Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest;

Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire;

47 general practices (6 of which are managed practices), 45 dental practices (including 4 orthodontic), 96 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres;

Numerous locations providing mental health and learning disabilities services;

Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.