Staff Nurse - PCH Frailty

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has become available for motivated individuals to join our Frailtyunit on ward 10 PCH.

The successful candidates will be working within a 24 bedded unit where you will be caring for patients with various medical conditions.

The aim of the unit is to appropriately assess patients, to facilitate discharge to a safe suitable environment .

The successful candidates will be working within a large MDT including PT/OT and SALT.

Main duties of the job

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 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. For more information, see the 'Croeso Candidate' booklet below.

Caring for a group of patients with various medical conditions.

Identify any health needs using a multidisciplinary approach and put plans in place to get patients home as soon as medically fit, to prevent deconditioning and getting infections.

Other duties include:

Administration of medications.

Performing observations including neuro obs.

Pressure area care.

Assessing pain.

Discharge planning . D2RA Pathway.

Risk assessments/care planning.

Documentation.

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.