Job summary
- Main area
- Palliative Care
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 110-NMR337-0724
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CTM WIDE
- Town
- CTM WIDE
- Salary
- £44,398 - £50,807 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Care Planning Facilitator
Band 7
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 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
An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit an additional band 7 Nurse to our existing team of advanced care planning facilitators within CTM UHB.
Under the service group of palliative care - the post holder will have a key role in the co-ordination, facilitation and delivery of Advance Care Planning within Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board for those individuals with and without mental capacity to support clinical decision making at end of life.
The post holder will be pivotal in the continued development of processes to support and embed Advance Care Planning across primary care, the independent sector and wider services.
The post holder will possess excellent communication and leadership skills and demonstrate an ability to work autonomously as well as an effective member of the team. The post holder will act as a specialist resource for other health and social care professionals on issues relating to advance care planning
.
Main duties of the job
· Promote the benefits and uptake of Advance Care Planning (ACP) with patients and their families in partnership with the Primary Care Team.
· Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, fostering good communication with colleagues of all disciplines, whilst ensuring that all communications are conducted with dignity and respect.
· Liaise with Care Home Managers, District Nurses, General Practitioners and Out of Hours medical services to inform and advise on Advance Care Planning (ACP).
· Support teams and/or key health professionals in rolling out the principles of ACP across Cwm Taf UHB in collaboration with the Primary Care Team.
Working as part of a team the candidate will be expected to work across all localities according to service need including Bridgend , Merthyr and Rhondda localities. A car driver and access to a vehicle is essential for this role .
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
As part of team work together to meet defined targets
Educate multi professional and facilitate ACP within care settings
Be effective leader and educator within the role
Excellent organisational skills is essential
Lead for CTM in relation to ACP planning and reporting
Attend All Wales meetings as a representative
Be willing to travel across CTM footprint
Person specification
ESSENTIAL
Essential criteria
- RELEVENT EXPERIENCE
- TEACHING QUALIFICATION OR EQUIVALENT
- LEADERSHIP QUALITIES
Desirable criteria
- WELSH SPEAKING
qulifications
Essential criteria
- achieved qualifications
- skills and knowledge
- leadership qualities
Desirable criteria
- welsh speaking
leadership / teaching
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates leadership/ skills required for the post
- Registered Nurse including teaching qualification
Desirable criteria
- Welsh speaking
- educated to masters level or equivalent
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julia Pugh
- Job title
- Senior Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
lisa king Interim Lead nurse 07977 381800
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