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Registered Nurse - Cardiology
The closing date is 25 August 2025
Registered Nurse, Ward 4, Cardiology/Endocrinology
We are so excited to expand our amazing team of registered nurses so if you want a change, a challenge or just want to be part of a dynamic, hard working and friendly team then please apply for this role.
Ward 4 is a specialty ward, caring for patients with cardiology, diabetes & endocrine patients who require high level of care.
This advert is for a fixed term to cover maternity leave and to ensure the ward is staffed appropriately and safely for the high level care we provide to patients in one designated bay of 8 beds within the ward. which cares for CCU/high dependency level patients. (to level 4 and 5 patients).
We want to invest in you, your education and your development are extremely important to us. We aim to send all nurses on Advanced Life Support (ALS) and support your learning and educational needs by sending you on courses in the University of South Wales.
We will be as flexible as we can with your off duty requests as we acknowledge the need for flexible working and having a healthy work life balance ensures the team are happy, which in turn ensures our patients receive the safest and most efficient care.
Main duties of the job
The ward is committed to ensuring the best outcomes to acutely unwell patients with cardiology and endocrine conditions. This will involve the skills needed to nurse level 5 patients in designated high care bays.
A period of time will be given for you to work with your mentor in preparation of your new role and excellent support is provided by an experienced group of ward sisters.
In your first few months we will ensure that you are trained in many skills that you will need. This includes cannulation and phlebotomy, male catheterisation, POC testing, blood transfusion and sampling, ILS, medicines management and IV drugs administration.
Please contact the team for any informal visits or information, we would love to meet you.
Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn't 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 isn't '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.
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 tea
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.
The Health Board currently operate a number of different shift systems. The most common are a 12.5 hour shift, inclusive of either one 30 minute or two 30-minute unpaid breaks. These shift patterns are subject to review and the Health Board reserves the right to change working arrangements. CTM is a Health Board committed to meaningful consultation with staff and to making balanced decisions that consider all aspects of our service and workforce.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* UK NMC registered
* ALS provider
* Post graduate university course
Experience
* RN with post registration experiance
* High dependency or CCU experience
Skills
* Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above/B2) 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.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
£31,516 to £38,364 a yearpro rata per annum
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