Employer Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Employer type NHS Site HMP Cardiff Town Cardiff Salary £31,516 - £38,364 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 31/08/2025 23:59
Bank Nurse-HMP Cardiff
Band 5
If you are shortlisted for interview for this post you will receive notification via email. Therefore, please ensure that you check your email account regularly as all information/messages regarding this post including interview dates and times will only be sent to your account. If you are not shortlisted for interview you will also be notified.
The following applies to General Recruitment only (excludes Medical and Dental applicants)
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email, this will come from the Recruitment team.
By submitting your application, you are giving your permission to the following:
* Receiving your conditional appointment letter via email, which will contain personal information, e.g. your name, address, job details, salary scale
* Some elements of your Electronic Staff Record transferring to other workforce systems in order to support and manage your recruitment and employment within the Organisation
* Recruitment checking your Professional Registration online, where applicable
Please provide an e-mail address for each referee to avoid delays with the Appointment Process
Job overview
To be responsible for the assessment of care needs and the development,
implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without direction andsupervision.
Demonstrate and supervise practice and procedures to registered and unregisterednursing staff to secure effective nursing practice.
To take a key role in the induction and mentorship of new and unregistered staff, andprovide supervision.
Main duties of the job
Working in a secure estate, offers such a unique experience for nurses who have an interest in developing skills in the management of people experiencing multiple disadvantages, people with lived experience of trauma, substance dependency and often homelessness. These individuals present with a huge variety of complex physical and psychological needs and require care and compassion from nurses who are focused to deliver a holistic and truly patient centred care. Working as part of a collaborative team of healthcare and prison staff, you can make a real difference to people’s lives….
Working for our organisation
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 15,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services.
Our mission is “Caring for People, Keeping People Well”,and our vision is that every person’s chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. As an organisation we are unashamedly ambitious for our population’s health, rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. We are contributing to a healthier Wales with great emphasis placed on innovation and improvement, learning from around the world and leading the way in clinical research. Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community.
Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiff and the Vale offers the best of both worlds.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Promote the health and well-being of patients/clients and maintain a safe, caringand therapeutic environment.
• Ensure nursing practice is in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct whichincorporates and respects differences in respect of gender, sexuality ethnicity,religion culture and disability.
• At all times be aware of and practice within the NMC Code of Conduct.
• Always act in such a manner as to promote and safeguard the interests and wellbeingof patients/clients, visitors and colleagues.
• Participate as an active member of the nursing and multi- disciplinary teams, beaccountable for your practice and work in partnership with other health careprofessionals, patients/clients and others in the delivery of care.
• Work in partnership with other statutory agencies and the 3rd sector for thebenefit of the patient/client
• Participate in effective nursing, providing a high standard of care to
patients/clients in keeping with the philosophies and operational policies of theUHB.
• Work closely and openly with relatives and carers providing help, guidance,support and information when appropriate.
Act as an advocate for patients/clients within good practice guidelines ensuring that they understand their rights and can access written and verbal information ina format which is appropriate to their current health status and language/sensoryneeds.
• Escalate any adult or child safeguarding concerns to the most appropriateprofessional immediately.
• Assess the care needed to address patients/clients’ physical, psychological, socialand spiritual needs.
• Develop, implement and continuously evaluate programmes of care using aproblem solving approach that ensures the needs of each individual patient/clientare met throughout their admission and/or period of treatment within thecommunity, including detailed arrangements for discharge.
• Update care plans regularly and accurately working in partnership with thepatient/client (including electronic records).
• Be responsible for the management of a group of patients/clients, including thedaily allocation of a patient/client group.
• Ensure that all patients/clients within own caseload have their after-care plannedand documented effectively in partnership with them and other agencies/services.
• Participate in the accurate maintenance of general and specific patient/clientobservations, accurately recording all relevant information and informingmembers of the multi-disciplinary team.
• Escalate concerns about patient’s/client’s condition/deterioration to the mostappropriate professional.
• Be conversant with the legal requirements concerning the prescribing, control,security and administration of drugs.
• Be conversant with the UHB’s policies and procedures.
• Be conversant with Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) of the Mental
Capacity Act (2005) and, where appropriate, the Mental Health Act (1983)
• Participate in the maintenance of standards in accordance with the UHB policiesand procedures, quality and safety and NMC.
• Participate in rotational duties and work in alternative care settings as required.
• Delegate tasks and activities to a range of team members in relation to
patient/client care (for example when taking supervised charge or as a link nurse).
Carry out any other duties commensurate with the band as allocated by the Team
Leader/Charge Nurse/Ward Sister
Person specification
Qualifications
* Good basic level of English Language
* Evidence of Continuous Professional Development
Experience
* Previous experience of working in a nursing environment
* Depending on previous experience the candidate may be expected to supervise junior staff • Awareness of the structure and organisation of the wider NHS
Skills
* Good interpersonal skills • Teaching skills • Able to prioritise and meet deadlines • Able to manage difficult situations • Organised time management • Able to use initiative • A willingness to participate in continuing professional development • IT skills • Awareness of audit & research • Analytical skills
* Ability to speak Welsh
MANAGING YOUR APPLICATION:
We are committed to promoting inclusion, where all staff have a sense of belonging. We welcome applications from everyone and recognise the need for our workforce to represent the diversity of the population we serve. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment where staff treat one another with dignity and respect and where diversity is celebrated. We aim to create a working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential no matter their disability, sex, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, age, religion or belief, pregnancy and maternity or marriage and civil partnership status.We are keen to break down barriers in the UHB, and encourage applications from under-represented groups.
Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh. Any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
The UHB reserves the right to close this vacancy after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
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 Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission 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 Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board reserve the right to close this vacancy after 24 hours if a large number of suitable applications are received. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post.
We are committed to flexible working and equal opportunities.
Posts may be subject to a DBS (formerly CRB) check.
Cardiff and Vale UHB is a Smoke Free Health Board. Smoking is banned across all of the UHB sites. Staff are therefore not able to smoke in the hospital grounds or on any other UHB premises.
When applying for this post it is essential that you read the Job Description and Person Specification (where available) and use the “supporting information” space to demonstrate how your skills, knowledge and experience meet the requirements of the person specification. PLEASE NOTE: Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
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All applicants are invited to apply in welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English
In submitting an application form, should you subsequently be appointed to the post applied for, you authorise Cardiff and Vale University Health Board to obtain any previous NHS service details including all electronically held sickness information, via the Inter Authority Transfer process on the national Electronic Staff Record (ESR)
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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