Job summary An exciting opportunity for a Band 5 staff nurse to join our multi-professional Intermediate Frailty hospital avoidance service.This post is based within the Acute Clinical Team in Bridgend offering frailty crisis response and acute clinical management to patients in their own homes within the community.We welcome applicants from dedicated, compassionate and professional nurses who are committed to providing high standards of care and are committed to ongoing professional development.If this post of interest to you, we welcome informal visits and discussions around the service.
Main duties of the job Clinical assessment and monitoring of patients, involving: Undertaking patient observations and vital signs, weights and taking venous and capillary blood testing to inform clinical decision makers on treatments and therapies for a variety of acute clinical problems and diseases.
Making clinical judgements on a patient's condition and following the ACT escalation protocols to ensure appropriate clinical response from the team.
Collecting other investigations including non-blood biochemistry and microbiology samples.
Also, notably (but not limited to); taking Electrocardiograms (ECGs), bladder scans or 24 hour blood pressure monitoring.
Undertaking screening cognitive assessments such as Abbreviated Mental Tests, 'MOCAs' and 4AT delirium screening.
The main duties of this job can be found in the attached job description.
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 and behaviours: 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 description Job responsibilities Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification of requirements for this role for the outline for this post.
Person Specification Qualifications and/or Knowledge Essential UK NMC Registered Nurse Desirable Evidence of Post Registration Study Evidence of competence in venepuncture and cannulation Experience Essential Experience as a Registered Nurse Desirable Experience working in a Multidisciplinary team setting Community experience Aptitude and Abilities Essential Ability to demonstrate clinical knowledge base and experience and adapt them to the community setting Excellent communication and interpersonal skills Team working skills Problem solving skills Ability to work unsupervised Desirable Ability to speak Welsh Values Essential Self-motivated Ability to adapt and work flexibly Enthusiasm and commitment Commitment to maximizing quality of care delivered Commitment to Continuous Professional Development Other Essential Ability to travel throughout UHB locality in a timely manner as this is a Community based post.
Able to work hours flexibly.