Clinical Assessment Nurse - SDEC

Transformationunitgm; Merthyr Tydfil; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a qualified Clinical Assessment Nurse to work within the Same Day Emergency Care Unit in Merthyr Tydfil. This is a full-time, permanent position where you will play a crucial role in patient care, assessment, and management. Applicants must possess NMC registration and relevant experience in Acute Medicine, as well as skills in IV procedures and diagnostics. Join a team committed to delivering high-quality healthcare services.

Qualifications

• Experience in Acute Medicine.
• Level 3 safeguarding people experience.

Responsibilities

• Support operational management of the Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) Unit.
• Carry out initial assessments and escalate patient priorities.

Skills

IV competent

Venepuncture and cannulation

Education

NMC registration

ILS

ILS/ALS

Clinical assessment/ Assessment & Diagnostics

Job description

Main area Same Day Emergency Care - Acute Medicine Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday, 08:00-20:30hrs) Job ref 110-NMR259-0625

Employer Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board Employer type NHS Site Prince Charles Hospital Town Merthyr Tydfil Salary £37,898 - £45,637 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 24/06/2025 23:59

Clinical Assessment Nurse - SDEC

Band 6

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 Wales’s 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 toapplications 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

The post holder will have responsibility to support in the operational management of the Same Day Emergency Care (SDEC) Unit. They will be expected to carry out the initial assessment of patients on arrival to the department, and escalate in accordance with the clinical presentation to determine priority of medical assessment.

They will support the Unit Manager in planning and delivering nursing care and identify the relevant patient pathway to ensure the service is utilised efficiently. The post holder will recognise the deteriorating patient, perform necessary treatment and escalate appropriately.

Main duties of the job

Be required to ensure the highest standard of patient care, which reflects the quality of standards and values and behaviours of Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB), and contribute to the implementation of policies and procedures within the sphere of responsibility.

Support the Sister/Department Manager in the management of staff within the SDEC Department.

Ensure a patient centred approach and provide a high standard of nursing care, directly involved in the assessing, planning, delivering from admission through to discharge/transfer.

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

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

Qualifications

• NMC registration
• ILS
• ILS/ALS
• Clinical assessment/ Assessment & Diagnostics

Experience

• Experience in Acute Medicine
• Level 3 safeguarding people

Skills

• IV competent
• Venepuncture and cannulation

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.