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Senior Nurse Critical Care and Pain Services
The closing date is 27 July 2025
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Nurse to work within Critical Care and Pain Services at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. This portfolio sits within the Planned Care Group.
You will require effective decision-making skills, the ability to challenge, work independently and in a team. You will work alongside the Service Group Managers for anaesthetics, critical care, theatres and trauma and orthopaedics and will support the Lead Nurse and Head of Nursing in ensuring the highest standards of nursing practice and nursing development, by monitoring clinical governance and patient safety standards within all aspects of the clinical environment.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Nurse for Critical Care and Pain Servicesyou will provide professional leadership for the nursing teams within these area.
You shouldpossess significant relevant clinical experience at Band 7 or equivalent or above and demonstrate a good understanding of Critical Care. You will need to demonstrate strong clinical and professional leadership within the Planned Care Group, being a visible and supportive role model.
In order to be effective in the role you will need to demonstrate an excellent understanding of patient flow, management process, Putting Things Right and Safeguarding. You must be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills and have the ability to liaise with colleagues across professional and Organisational boundaries.
As a key member of the Senior Nursing team, you will work closely with the Lead Nurse and Head of Nursing to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe and cost effective patient-centred care.
To succeed in this role you will need to inspire and motivate through good communication skills. You must be willing to embrace a broad range of new challenges, possess the knowledge, and drive to create and deliver the best pathway for our patents.
About us
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.
Job 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
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesnt mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isnt fluency, just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
* UK NMC Registration
* Master's Level or possess skills, knowledge and/or training and experience to its equivalency
Experience
* Significant relevant clinical experience at Band 7 or equivalent or above
* Management Training
* Report Writing
* Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above) are Desirable for this Role.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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