puestos de Occupational Health Nurse en Gran Bretaña

Are you an enthusiastic, compassionate, forward thinking, dynamic and committed Registered Nurse looking for a new career challenge within a forward-thinking staff focused organisation?

Are you passionate and committed to the delivery of high-quality evidence-based care and continuous service improvement? If so, we have the career choice for you.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 5 Registered Nurse within our vital blood collection team based at Dafen Llanelli within the Welsh Blood Service. A nursing role within collection services affords staff with development of a range of clinical skills and collection techniques including whole blood collection.

Working as part of a dynamic team, the Collections Nurse role is a clinical role responsible for supporting the Senior Clinic RNs and the wider collections team in the delivery of high-quality individualised care to our lifesaving donors. As a Collections Nurse, you will be expected to provide effective and compassionate clinical leadership to ensure optimal care of donors.

The Welsh Blood Service is committed to the development of our staff and successful applicants would progress through a comprehensive training programme on a supernumerary basis to ensure you are adequately prepared with the required specialist knowledge and skills to undertake this key clinical role.

To support the Senior Clinic Nurse in ensuring the provision of the safe and effective collection of blood at donor clinics.

To support the Senior Clinic Nurse in all aspects of nursing and clinical care of donors, ensuring a safe environment for all when working on the clinic. Be recognised as a source of clinical knowledge for advice and direction to non-clinical staff.

There will be a requirement for all staff to flex through various teams and blood collection facilities such as bloodmobiles, static sites and community clinics covering a large geographical area.

There is a requirement that the post holder will undertake scheduled tours that will include overnight stays several times a year.

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

Here at Velindre University NHS Trust we are extremely proud of the specialist services we provide across the whole of Wales in our cutting-edgeVelindre Cancer Centre and our award-winning Welsh Blood Service, as well as the expertise of our corporate functions that bring the two divisions together. We are also fortunate to host the NHS Wales Shared Services Partnership and Health Technology Wales and have developed strong partnership working with these expert services.

Formed in 1999, the Trust has a dedicated workforce that continuously strives to provide the key principles of prudent healthcare through a wide array of roles. We play a vital role in the communities we support and have ambitious plans for the future to continue to improve the services we deliver. We strive to maintain our core values in everything we do by being; accountable, bold, caring and dynamic, and ensuring the best possible care for our patients and donors.

If you want to work for an organisation that prides itself on making a real difference and offers exciting career opportunities then Velindre University NHS Trust is the place for you.

Visit our website to find out more: https://velindre.nhs.wales/

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.

• Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
• First Aid Certificate

• Experience of working within a customer focused environment.
• Experienced in dealing with sensitive or confidential matters and an understanding of how this applies to the role.
• Experience of working people at all levels.

• Good communication, written and numeracy skills.
• Demonstrates the ability to promote and foster good working relationships within a team.
• Ability and dexterity to undertake venepuncture.
• Ability to speak Welsh

• Ability to assess donor needs that may be complex and subject to change. Understand the role WBS plays in the wider community.
• Knowledge of working in a healthcare environment

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.

£31,516 to £38,364 a yearper annum pro rata