Job summary
- Main area
- District Nursing
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day service to include weekends)
- Job ref
- 110-NMR288-0624
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Pyle Life Centre
- Town
- Pyle/ Bridgend
- Salary
- £44,398 - £50,807 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
District Nurse Team Leader
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
District Nurse Team Leader Post ( Band 7)
Integrated Cluster Service Networks Teams
This post is a permanent position within the Integrated Network Services in the West of Bridgend. As a Team Leader within our Integrated services you are in the unique position to work within and lead a team who are fully focused on holistic person centred care, with a what matters to the individual and family approach. As a Specialist Practice and Public Health practitioner you will have a full multi disciplinary team of professionals at your fingertips to provide a full preventative health agenda whilst focusing on the continuous improvement of self, your team and community cluster your serve.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
This position provides an exciting opportunity for highly motivated and ambitious District Nurse who is committed to excellence in care and the passionate leadership of District Nursing services.
The successful candidate will provide vision and energy in developing holistic integrated care and support for the patient and those who are important to them. The role requires effective management and strong leadership qualities. The post holder, will be skilled and creative, with high levels of autonomy and advanced clinical decision making. The post holders will need to work closely with GPs and surgery staff, and the wider multi-disciplinary staff to support individuals to have good quality emotional and physical well-being in their own homes.
The successful candidate will offer clinical leadership within the Network Team and provide support and professional development for their staff. They will oversee the operational management of the a given caseload, ensuring high quality care for patients and support for those important to them. As a team leader for the service you will be responsible for ensuring prudency, consistency and a positive work culture, where all team members feel valued and included.
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
Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of competence in a wide range of clinical skills
- Evidence of experience of complex decision making
- Evidence of multi-agency working
- Evidence of excellent leadership skills
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of teaching and presentation skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of working and leading in sensitive and complex situations
Understanding of the DN Principles and relation to practice
Essential criteria
- Understanding of the DN Principles and relation to practice
- Holds a SPQ qualification or will qualify this year
- Is able to articulate current WG and UHB policy and how this underpins own practice
Desirable criteria
- Has an understanding of the current governance agenda and can link these to own practice
- Is able to successfully prioritise own work and utilise the delegation policy
- Is able to use Health Roster
- Has completed Datix training and is able to complete investigations
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Lucy Edwards
- Job title
- Integrated Community Services Network Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 753922
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