Job summary
- Main area
- Care of the Elderly
- Grade
- Band 8b
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-NMR238-0525
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Princess of Wales Hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £63,150 - £73,379 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Band 8b
We provide healthcare services to people living in Bridgend, Merthyr Tydfil and Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough areas, serving a population of around 450,000. We are ideally situated between Wales’s capital city, Porthcawl to the west, and the stunning scenery in the Brecon Beacons.
Our vision is to care for our communities and patients by preventing ill-health, promoting better health, providing excellent services and reducing the need for inpatient care wherever possible through the provision of strengthened home, primary and community care.
We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race/nationality, religion/belief, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Cwm Taf Morgannwg is a Living Wage Employer.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh or English, and no preference will be given to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum.
This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lead Advanced Nurse practitioner for the Acute Frailty Service within the Princess of Wales Hospital.
The post holder will provide strategic clinical leadership for care of the elderly services, bringing added value, with the aim of challenging and influencing the direction of the services and working as a highly specialist practitioner in these areas. The role will ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence, and support a values based culture that creates a positive working environment. A focus on clinical policy and service development being fundamental to the role.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide services for patients across a broad spectrum of clinical arenas within the context of Acute Frailty/Care of Elderly Medicine. They will be responsible for a group of patients within the ambulatory frailty service, some of who will have been directly identified within the Acute Frailty Unit and Emergency department as patients who will be provided follow-up in the a ACP led Ambulatory Frailty service.
As a senior clinician and decision maker, they will directly establish and provide independent, accredited, autonomous investigations through a comprehensive physical assessment with the aim of formulating a diagnosis and formal management plan from admission to having the direct responsibility for medical discharge with no medical input.
The Lead Advanced Clinical Practioner will take an active role in developing Advanced Practice across Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB) and will be a part of University Health Board Advanced Practice Board.
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 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will provide full patient care i.e. independently investigate/diagnose patients referred to the service and subsequently inform patients of diagnosis, request further investigations and liaise with multi-disciplinary members.
The post holder will be in receipt of a formal non-medical independent prescribing qualification in order to be responsible for prescribing and reviewing patients’ drug treatments.
The post holder will be recognized as an acknowledged expert in the management of patients with chronic disease and maintain clinical excellence in this role through the maintenance of a live portfolio.
The post holder will undertake research and audit which will directly improve and impact on patient care.
The post holder will provide supervision, teaching and development opportunities for nursing, medical and other related professionals.
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click “Apply now” to view in Trac.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Masters in Advanced Practice
- Significant Experience as ANP
Desirable criteria
- Experience of service redesign
ANP criteria
Essential criteria
- Non medical Prescriber
- Meets 4 pillars of Advanced Practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Catherine Theron
- Job title
- Head of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 752752
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