Job overview

Main duties of the job

The ward is committed to ensuring the best outcomes to acutely unwell patients with cardiology and endocrine conditions. This will involve the skills needed to nurse level 5 patients in designated high care bays. 

A period of time will be given for you to work with your mentor in preparation of your new role and excellent support is provided by an experienced group of ward sisters. 

In your first few  months  we will ensure that you are trained in many skills that you will need. This includes cannulation and phlebotomy, male catheterisation , POC testing, blood transfusion and sampling, ILS , medicines management and IV drugs administration.

Please contact the team for any informal visits or information, we would love to meet you. 

Welsh Skills Desirable: 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 and selecting 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.  

Working for our organisation

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 tea

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.