We are redesigning our community services model and implementing a new Intermediate Care Team and therefore an exciting opportunity has arisen to employ Nurses to deliver an urgent community response services (provides care 8am to 9pm, 7 days a week) and will play a crucial role in providing essential support and care to individuals, with a focus on promoting independence, dignity, and well-being. This is an opportunity for someone who wishes to continue to progress their career in nursing.
The objective is to optimise safe and timely discharge from an inpatient stay for patients that need some form of continuing care or prevent admission with interventions that can be managed at home
The post holder will work closely with medical and therapy colleagues in the provision of a comprehensive multi-disciplinary care service for adults as part of the Intermediate Care ( ) Service.
The post holder will support the Team Leader and Deputy in the further development and implementation of the service. This will also include the facilitation of integrated working with colleagues in Local Authorities and 3 rd sector organisations to support individuals within their home (where deemed appropriate) .
Take delegated responsibility from the Team Leaders/deputy for managing patients, within a variety of settings, and will be responsible for providing timely clinical assessments and treatment plans for these patients.
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.
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.
You will locate the comprehensive detailed Job description and main responsibilities outlined for this post as a Staff Nurse within the Integrated Services in the attached documents.