Job overview

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is looking to recruit an experienced Nurse Practitioner to work within the Medical Assessment Unit based in Ysbty Ystrad Fawr

Using effective triage skills, successful candidates will help to deliver safe and evidence based care. As an Independent  prescriber successful applicants will become part of the existing multiple disciplinary team, assessing and responding to appropriate patients who require urgent care advice and further treatment. This may involve immediate interventions and onward referral.  

Main duties of the job

• Triage assessing all clinical conditions 
• Autonomous decision making 
• Face-to-Face consultations  and autonomous decision making in relation to appropriate care and treatments
• Other clinical and leadership duties along with service developments as per Job description.    

Working for our organisation

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020.  Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.