Job summary
Employer heading
Advanced Nurse Practitioner for @Home Services
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 and rewarding opportunity has arisen for a suitably qualified, enthusiastic and dynamic Advanced Nurse Practitioner, to join our well-established community MDT within the @Home Service, based at Dewi Sant Health Park.
We welcome applications from those individuals in receipt of a MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice as well as an independent prescribing qualification.
The post holder will work closely with the team and provide effective leadership and management to ensure the delivery of safe, effective, well led, responsive, quality patient care.
Alongside this they will need to be able to demonstrate the ability to contribute to the development and implementation of policies and procedures within their sphere of responsibility and where appropriate, will actively initiate and partake in training and education programmes, research, clinical audit and service evaluation, demonstrating their ability to practice autonomously across all four pillars of advanced practice.
You should be passionate about improving the patient experience and quality of clinical outcomes and possess good organizational, interpersonal and communication skills. You will work in an environment in which flexibility and team working are key components and you will be required to travel across the aforementioned geographical areas of CTM UHB.
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
The post holder is responsible for the holistic assessment of care needs and development implementation and evaluation of evidence based programmes of care. The role will specifically focus on expert clinical practice, education skills.
As an Advanced Nurse Practitioner, the post holder will be expected to exercise a high degree of professional autonomy in relation to patients nursing needs and to satisfy the expectations and demands of the role.
The post holder will assist the Lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner in the clinical assessment of patients who have a complex and undetermined presentation working alongside medical and GP colleagues to maintain patients in a community setting and avoid hospital admissions and facilitate discharges.
The Advanced Nurse Practitioner will be expected to work with Health and Social Care colleagues in a number of key areas which include reablement , avoidance of hospital admission and facilitation of early discharge.
Will be expected to have a full understanding of the relevant care pathways and be able to work with Health and Social Care staff on work streams arising out of the transition of services currently being evolved.
The post holder will be expected to act on their own initiative to differentiate appropriately between those issues which need to be referred to others for a decision from the issues upon which the post holder can exercise appropriate decision making. To maintain the NMC Code of Conduct.
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
Qualifications & or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- Independent Prescriber
- Master’s award in Advanced Clinical Practice
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Knowledge of Clinical Governance and its application in practice
- Broad in-depth knowledge of all aspects of health issues encompassing childhood/adulthood
- Working knowledge of vulnerable adult and child protection procedures
Desirable criteria
- Teaching qualification
- Diploma/Degree in CHS [District Nursing] Specialist Practitioner DN
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experienced in palliative care, chronic disease management and wound management
- Confident and competent in a wide range of clinical skills
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
- Donna Pace
- Job title
- Team Leader for @home services
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01443 443766
- Additional information
Contact number above
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