Senior Nurse Health Visiting

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board; Newport; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health board in Wales is looking for an enthusiastic Senior Nurse to join their Health Visiting Senior Leadership Team. The role focuses on promoting strong leadership and clinical governance while ensuring quality services for children. The successful candidate will support the Health Visiting Service in implementing key recommendations and integrating services across the board, contributing to the Early Years Healthy Child Wales Programme.

Benefits

Flexible working

Temporary top-up to living wage

Qualifications

• Must meet essential requirements in job description.
• Ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical leadership and direction in Public Health.
• Support the management team in modernisation and delivery of services.
• Ensure safety and welfare of staff, implementing Health and Safety Policies.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical Governance

Public Health

Job description

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, and 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 01497 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 shortlisted for this post, you will be contacted via the email account you used to apply, so please check your account regularly.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment-related correspondence via the email registered on the application form.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board supports flexible working.

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 seeking to employ an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Nurse to join our Health Visiting Senior Leadership Team within Public Health Nursing. This post holder will utilize their specialist knowledge and skills to promote strong, compassionate leadership and clinical governance to ensure the provision of quality services, enabling all children to have the best start in life.

The role will support the Health Visiting Service in the modernisation and implementation of the Health Visiting Improvement and Sustainability Board recommendations.

The post holder will jointly ensure the effective integration of services across ABUHB and ensure the delivery of the Early Years Healthy Child Wales Programme.

All applicants must meet the essential requirements and demonstrate application of practice with regard to the job description and person specification.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will provide clinical leadership, direction, and development of staff in Public Health to improve quality and shape services to meet the Public Health Agenda and the needs of individual communities in partnership with other agencies.
• The post holder will support the Divisional Nurse, Directorate Manager, and Clinical Director and Lead Nurse (Health Visiting) in ensuring the highest standard of nursing care is provided, monitored, and evaluated within Public Health Services.
• The post holder will support the directorate management team in the modernisation, redesign, development, and delivery of Public Health Nursing – Health Visiting across Aneurin Bevan Health Board and respond to the National Agenda.
• The post holder will be responsible for ensuring the safety and welfare of staff, ensuring they observe and implement Health and Safety Policies, and identifying and achieving training and developmental needs through the implementation of Health Board policies and procedures.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.