Job summary
- Main area
- Dermatology
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 15 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-ACS129-0525
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Princess of Wales Hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £26,928 - £29,551 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 22/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Dermatology Health Care Support Worker / Navigator
Band 4
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
This post will support the Consultant and Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) for Dermatology cancer within the Princess of Wales Hospital.
The post will include guiding patients and their families through their cancer journey, signposting them to the relevant available support.
A key element of the role will be ensuring co-ordination of care for Dermatology cancer patients across the cancer pathway.
Main duties of the job
As a member of the specialist cancer team, the post holder will provide support and care to the holistic needs of adult cancer patients, ensuring that cancer patients have support in navigating through the often complex health and social care systems. They will be a valuable point of contact for the patient and their family, throughout their journey.
The successful candidate will; undertake a range of assigned tasks involving direct and indirect care for the benefit of the cancer patient in accordance with agreed protocols.
They will have excellent communication skills; be able to work confidently with a number of different electronic systems; be well organised having good time management skills; and the ability to work as part of a team or on their own initiative.
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
Please see job Description and person specification which is in the attached documentation of job description and person specification
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Educated to NVQ level 3 with additional relevant specialist training, or working towards, in a range of nursing procedures and practices to diploma level equivalency.
- Knowledge and understanding of key NHS strategic policies e.g. Together for Health Cancer Delivery Plan
- Relevant experience in AFC Band 2 or 3 and experience of working
Desirable criteria
- 5 GCSE’s including English and Mathematics – Grades A-C or equivalent
experience
Essential criteria
- Understanding of Cancer Support and its role across the UK.
Applicant requirements
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
- Samantha Davies
- Job title
- Dermatology Clinical Nurse Specialist/
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656 752752
- Additional information
01656 753655
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