Employer heading
NHS AfC: 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 Waless 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 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job Overview
An exciting new opportunity has arisen for a motivated, innovative, enthusiastic, and experienced Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our Vascular speciality at Royal Glamorgan Hospital, within Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
The post holder will have expert knowledge and will provide strong clinical professional leadership in their role as an advanced, autonomous practitioner providing patient-centred clinical care.
The Vascular Clinical Nurse Specialist will carry continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs, development, implementation and evaluation of the programme of care, without supervision, for all vascular patients requiring all aspects of pre-, peri- and post-operative care. To focus on the individual needs of the patient and work closely with all disciplines to ensure promotion of high standards within the unit by using advanced knowledge and skills.
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
Main duties of the job
As a key member of the team, you will work closely with the Vascular Consultants/ Vascular Nurse, and Senior Nurse to ensure the delivery of high quality, efficient, safe and cost-effective patient centred care. The successful candidate will be expected to work within an outpatient setting, but occasionally review any patients across the surgical directorate, or patients that are outlying on Unscheduled Care wards. The candidate may also be required to work pan CTM, covering all hospital sites within the Health board. Due to the Vascular Network, with the base being University Hospital of Wales, there is an expectation that the candidate will spend time at the Vascular Unit in Cardiff, where there will be opportunity to partake in UHW ward cover and emergency assessment.
To succeed in this role, you will need to inspire and motivate a multidisciplinary team of staff, building excellent relationships through good communication skills. At this level the post holder is expected to work as a highly skilled autonomous practitioner managing their own work load and flexibly as part of the wider team. The individual must work across professional, organisational, agency and system boundaries to improve services and develop practice. They will participate in networks, locally, regionally and nationally.
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
To assist in the provision and to continue the development of a comprehensive service for vascular patients within Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board. The Vascular Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) carries continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs, development, implementation and evaluation of the programme of care, without supervision, for all vascular patients requiring all aspects of pre-, peri- and post-operative care. To focus on the individual needs of the patient and work closely with all disciplines to ensure promotion of high standards within the unit by using advanced knowledge and skills.
The Vascular CNS will work autonomously in Nurse-led Clinics and Pre-assessment providing patients and carers with specialist knowledge and perform clinical examinations and clerking, making clinical decisions on diagnoses that would normally be provided by medical staff. For example cancelation of patients operations if deemed not fit for surgery, commencing patients on best medical treatment, discontinuation of medication for surgical input and diagnosing peripheral vascular disease through history taking and vascular specific tests. The Vascular CNS will influence patient care through expert clinical practice, management of conditions, leadership, education to patients / carers and pre-and post-registered nurses and assisting junior doctors.
The Vascular Clinical Nurse Specialist will predominantly be based in an outpatient (OPD) setting and may be required to work across CTM sites performing Ankle Brachial Pressure Indices (ABPIs), Toe Pressures (TBIs), and complex dressings. There is also the expectation of hosting Pre- assessment clinics with an Anaesthetist on a regular basis.
This role will entail co-ordinating care for all vascular patients, being an integral part of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) and education of nursing and other health care professionals. The role will also involve receiving large Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm referrals who require surgery, from screeners in the community and managing the recently diagnosed aneurysm patients pathways throughout assessment, admission, discharge and follow-up.
The Vascular CNS is expected to participate in and promote clinical excellence and continuously develop the role as the service expands. This will be achieved through
Education and leadership
Continuous development of clinical skills
Research, audit and publication of papers, attending and presenting if required in monthly Vascular Audit Meetings.
Dissemination of experience through presentations at teaching sessions and Vascular Audit Meetings.
Linking with Primary Care.
Person specification
Vascular experience
Essential criteria
* Vascular experience
Desirable criteria
* surgical experience
MSc qualification
Essential criteria
* MSc qualification
Desirable criteria
* Vascular experience
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or, unless you have p Skilled Worker visaermission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting. If you are eligible for the HealthWork in the UKand Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.
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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.
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