Job summary
- Main area
- Health Protection Service
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - There may be a requirement in this role to work weekends and Bank Holidays
- Job ref
- 110-NMR312-0724
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- To be confirmed
- Town
- To be confirmed
- Salary
- £44,398 - £50,807 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Team Leader - Vaccination & Immunisation/Health Protection
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
We offer this truly exciting opportunity for experienced nurses to join us in our new community based Health Protection Service. Working primarily in a vaccination and immunisation leadership role you will also enjoy the benefits of gaining experience in our developing wider health protection model. These posts will be of interest to highly motivated nurses who can demonstrate sound knowledge, skills and experience in leading and managing teams. Applicants should also offer a positive and enthusiastic commitment to excellence in population health protection.
Successful candidates will lead a team of nurses working flexibly right across the Health Board footprint providing the highest standard of vaccination, immunisation and testing services. This will be for both our general public and also our staff who live and work in Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
Main duties of the job
Under the direction of the Senior Nurse, Vaccination & Immunisation/Health Protection, the post holder will carry out continuing responsibility for the delivery of safe, equitable, effective, timely and accessible vaccination programmes across Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB). These will include the broadest range of both adult and childhood immunisation schedules as well as any identified work associated with the wider CTMUHB Health Protection function.
Successful applicants will ensure the highest standards of patient care and governance via the effective and efficient management of human, financial and physical resources ensuring that these are maintained through diligent monitoring, support and corrective action, when required.
In this role you will also commit to ensuring that vulnerable settings within CTMUHB are supported with sound nursing guidance on prevention and management of disease outbreaks and epidemics, as well as testing and tracing processes where clinically appropriate. This will be for all critical settings across health and social care, HMP Parc and multiple other Primary Care and community environments within the CTMUHB footprint.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
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
In support of the Senior Nurse, Vaccination & Immunisation/Health Protection the post holder will significantly contribute to reducing identified inequalities in population health protection between our most, and least, deprived groups and communities. Our team is friendly, supportive and very deeply committed to making a difference for a population because at our core we know that vaccination saves lives.
Person specification
Essential
Essential criteria
- NMC Registration
Essential
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent skills, knowledge, experience
- Understanding of vaccination programmes and targets
- Experience leading and managing teams
- Able to work flexibly
- Satisfactory enhanced DBS
Desirable criteria
- Experience of Health Roster
- Able to speak Welsh
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
- Jane Williams
- Job title
- Senior Nurse - Vaccs & Imms/Health Protection
- Email address
- [email protected]
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