Senior Staff Nurse, Intermediate Care Service (Hospital@Home)

Integrated Care System; Bridgend; On-site; GBP 31,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare organization is looking for a Senior Staff Nurse to join their Intermediate Care Service. This role delivers urgent community response services, promoting independence and well-being for patients. Ideal candidates will have a Registered Nurse qualification and experience in community nursing. The position requires excellent communication and management skills, with responsibilities including policy development and team support.

Qualifications

• Evidence of post-registration continuing professional development.
• Knowledge of clinical governance and its application.
• Knowledge of Infection Prevention and Control procedures.

Responsibilities

• Support the Team Leader in the development of the Intermediate Care Service.
• Facilitate integrated working with colleagues in Local Authorities.
• Participate in training and education programs.

Skills

Partnership working

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Education

Registered Nurse

Post Registration qualification to postgraduate Diploma level

Mentorship qualification or training

Clinical Leadership qualification and/or training

Job description

Go back Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board

Senior Staff Nurse, Intermediate Care Service (Hospital@Home)

The closing date is 31 July 2025

We are redesigning our community services model and implementing a new Intermediate Care Team and therefore an exciting opportunity has arisen to employ Nurses to deliver an urgent community response services (provides care 8am to 9pm, 7 days a week) and will play a crucial role in providing essential support and care to individuals, with a focus on promoting independence, dignity, and well-being. This is an opportunity for someone who wishes to continue to progress their career in nursing.

The objective is to optimise safe and timely discharge from an inpatient stay for patients that need some form of continuing care or prevent admission with interventions that can be managed at home

Main duties of the job

The Senior Staff Nurse will work within the Intermediate Care (Hospital@Home) Service.

The post holder will support the Team Leader in the future development of the Intermediate Care (Hospital@Home) Service. This will also include the facilitation of integrated working with colleagues in Local Authorities and 3rd sector organisations to support individuals within their home.

The post holder will also contribute to the development and implementation of policies and procedures within their sphere of responsibility and where appropriate, will actively participate in training and education programmes, patient support groups, research, clinical audit, and service evaluation.

The post holder will be responsible for providing support to the team leader in the day-to-day management of the service. Assisting the team leader in the management and requirements of the nursing team by utilising effective management and leadership skills.

Welsh Skills Desirable:This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn't mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn't 'fluency', just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health.

About us

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.

Job responsibilities

You will locate the comprehensive detailed Job description and main responsibilities outlined for this post as a Senior Nurse within the Integrated Services in the attached documents.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Knowledge

• Registered Nurse.
• Post Registration qualification to postgraduate Diploma level or skills, knowledge, and experience to equivalency.
• Evidence of post registration continuing professional development.
• Extensive knowledge of Speciality.
• Working knowledge of multi-disciplinary teams.
• Working knowledge of clinical governance and its application in practice.
• Knowledge of audit and research.
• Knowledge of Safeguarding and Adult Protection policies and procedures.
• Knowledge of Infection Prevention and Control procedures.
• Evidence of recent continues professional development.
• Mentorship qualification or training.
• Clinical Leadership qualification and/or training.
• Knowledge of principles information governance.
• Teaching certificate.
• Local knowledge of statutory and voluntary service.
• IQT - Bronze and Silver Practitioner.

Experience

• Previous experience of managing staff and managing resources (either as a team leader or a deputy).
• Experience of undertaking clinical audit and/or research in clinical practice.
• Experience in frail elderly, chronic disease management.
• Significant experience as a community registered nurse.
• Experience of implementing innovation and change in clinical practice.
• Experience of interagency working and initiating developments across organisational boundaries.
• Substantial post registration experience, most recently in a multi-disciplinary assessment service for those with complex needs (Intermediate Care or equivalent).
• Experience of working within Primary Care and/or community care settings.

Skills And Attributes

• Excellent skills at partnership working.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• Effective interpersonal and influencing skills. Ability to understand and manage complex issues and environments.
• Ability to think laterally.
• Ability to prioritise effectively.
• Ability to analyse and solve complex problems.
• Effective organisational skills.
• Ability to delegate.
• Ability to understand and manage complex issues and Environments.
• Good IT, numeric, literacy and reasoning skills.
• Ability to develop working relationships locally, regionally, and nationally.
• Able to prioritise work, and work to multiple deadlines.
• Ability to manage complex situations.
• Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above/B2) are Desirable for this Role.
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team.

Other Role Requirements

• Able to work hours flexibly.
• Amenable to change as required.
• Able to travel within the UHB locality in a timely manner.
• Ability to represent the UHB at different levels.
• Flexible approach to work and adaptable. Diplomatic.
• Can work effectively with people with diverse skills, abilities, and experience.
• Commitment to team working. Self-motivated, proactive, and innovative.
• Ability to engage members of the public.
• Diplomatic

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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There are Band 6 vacancies throughout Bridgend (Trem y Mor), RCT & Merthyr (Dewi Sant Hospital)

There are Band 6 vacancies throughout Bridgend (Trem y Mor), RCT & Merthyr (Dewi Sant Hospital)