Main area Outpatients Grade Band 5 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Part time
37.5 hours per week (Various Hours available) Job ref 040-NMR207-0525
Employer Aneurin Bevan University Health Board Employer type NHS Site Ysbyty Aneurin Bevan Town Ebbw Vale Salary £30,420 - £37,030 per annum, pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 11/06/2025 23:59
Registered Nurse
Band 5
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed. Please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01495 745805 option 3.
If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
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.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.
Job overview
We are pleased to advertise vacancies for Band 5 Registered Nurses to work a proportion of the 44.0 hours per week we have to offer. We will accept full time hours (37.5) or a minimum of 20hrs per week would be considered. There is an expectation that your starting time of a shift would be 08:00hrs. The successful candidates will be working across the two sites and will be expected to do so on a regular time frame.
Modern, nurse-led services are a major feature of Outpatients nursing at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board – and it makes for great variety learning and the chance for different career progression and probable succession planning for the right candidates.
Band 5 staff nurses will be heavily involved in these services, and have opportunities to undertake specialist training days alongside core development.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
Life as a staff nurse in Outpatients could involve minor operations, various nurse-led clinics, the chance to work in a community setting, working in a range of specialty clinics which include undertaking observations, facilitating Intra Venous treatment sessions, supporting consultants and looking after patients and their families. There are a lot of interesting nurse-led services in Outpatients. These include dressing clinics often handling complex dressings. Nurse led cardiac clinics; day case Infusion services run by our Nephrology team in conjunction with the speciality Clinical Nurse.
Outpatients is very much a modern Monday to Friday service, clinics commencing at varying times catering for patients’ needs. We often facilitate week end clinics to manage waiting times that were hampered by the COVID pandemic, working extra hours as required. It therefore requires flexible working to meet service and patient’s needs. We do a range of treatments and nurses undertake observations and lots of patient contact, which include venepuncture, ECG’s, siting of IV cannulas and IV additives
The successful candidates will be given the opportunity to work in a range of specialities in different clinics along with rotation between the two sites. You will quickly experience different roles and opportunities, working with a dedicated, experienced and friendly team.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your speciality or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main 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.
Person specification
* Knowledge and experience
* Evidence of CPD
* NMC Registration
* NHS / OPD 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 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.
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.
Name Dawn Leah Job title Departmental Manager Email address dawn.leah@wales.nhs.uk Telephone number 01495363299 Additional information
Dawn Leah
Departmental Manager
dawn.leah@wales.nhs.uk
01495363299
For further information/informal visit, please contact:
Elizabeth Firth Outpatient Services on 01495768682
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