Staff Nurse - Palliative Care

Job summary

Y Bwthyn Newydd is an 8 bed unit that provides acute specialist palliative care. We require an enthusiastic, highly motivated individual with the ability and passion to work within our small ward team.

The post holder will:

• Be responsible for the management a group of patients, and occasionally take charge of the ward/department, and its resources for the duration of their duty.
• Be responsible for maintaining high standards of patient care.
• Be responsible for ensuring that all policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Be responsible for the support and supervision of junior staff.
• Be responsible for maintaining accurate, current, comprehensive and concise records concerning the condition of the patient, in accordance with NMC Standards for Record & Record Keeping and the UHB's Patient Record Policy.
• Facilitate and contribute to the MDT meetings and other health professionals when planning patient care and or discharge.

We would like to hear from you if you can demonstrate your passion and commitment to the provision of high-quality patient centred care. You will be able to work as part of a large multi-disciplinary team, demonstrating excellent communication skills and an ability to work effectively with the ward team to deliver excellent standards of patient care.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for a nurse with a keen interest in Palliative Care to join our team on a secondment basis. This unique role is about caring for individual patients and their carers and families. Our patients have life limiting conditions that may be with us for symptom control and/or end of life care. You will play a very important role in their good days, difficult days and last days.We are looking for a compassionate, sensitive nurse who can combine excellent clinical skills and risk management with a desire to provide high quality individualised nursing care to patients and their family.

To possess excellent communication skills.

Sufficient post qualification experience and a genuine interest in palliative care is required.

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

This post is fixed term/secondment for 12 months to meet the needs of the service.

If you are interested in applying for the secondment position, you must obtain permission from your current line manager prior to applying for this post.

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.