Safe@home CNS

Job summary

You will be responsible for triaging referrals and carrying out home visits to prevent further decline or admission to hospital by providing urgent care, equipment and specialist older person's multidisciplinary assessment. The service will be developing into the Safe at Home team, which will aim to prevent hospital admission by managing acutely deteriorating patients in the community.

Main duties of the job

An exciting opportunity to join the newly created Community Triage Service within Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. We are recruiting to a Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist post and offer this to clinical staff with good IT knowledge and skills, that are keen to work in a busy, friendly and developing integrated single point of access for community service referrals. Ideally we would like you to have community/primary care experience.

The right candidate for this post will need to display excellent communication skills, problem solving and documentation with attention to detail and the ability to manage challenging and changing situations. They will require experience with managing deteriorating patients and have good clinical experience. They will be expected to work flexibly across the Cardiff and Vale bases and be available for home visits. They will also need to have a willingness to learn and be involved in service developments.

The post will involve working in partnership with the Vale Community Resource Service and collaboratively with related specialities across the UHB.

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

About us

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving over 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.

Our mission is "Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together", and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. Our 10-year transformation and improvement strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, is our chance to work collaboratively with the public and our workforce to make our health board more sustainable for the future.