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Job summary

Main area
Heart Failure
Grade
Band 7
Contract
6 months (Fixed term for 6 months due to funding - from start date)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday)
Job ref
110-NMR271-0625
Employer
Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type
NHS
Site
Princess of Wales Hospital
Town
Bridgend
Salary
£46,840 - £53,602 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
02/07/2025 23:59

Employer heading

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Clinical Nurse Specialist - Heart Failure

Band 7

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

Clinical Nurse Specialist in Heart failure working within patients who present with heart failure both in the out-patient and in-patient service at the Princess of Wales Hospital Bridgend.

 

This post is fixed term for 6 months due to funding

Main duties of the job

Clinical assessment, diagnosis and management of patient presenting with heart failure
Education - education of others and self
Leadership- lead on service change and support development of guidelines and policies
Research- use of evidence based practice to support clinical decisions and be involved in QiPs/audit projects

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

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

 

 

An excellent opportunity has arisen to join our well established, motivated and forward thinking respiratory medical/ heart failure team at the Princess of wales Hospital in Bridgend as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner. 

Clinical:

The CNS will be expected to provide support the consultant in the assessment, diagnostic investigations and management of patients referred to the Heart failure service as outpatient or inpatient. They will need be able to undertake a clinical examination, request and interpret biochemistry, haematology, histology and microbiology and echocardiogram results.

Education- provision of education to a multi-professional audience around specialist area of practice and to patient and families. Maintenance of own education and a live portfolio of evidence in line with HEIW Enhanced and Advanced Framework for Wales and HB requirements. The candidate is expected to have completed or be willing to work toward Level 7/Masters level clinical education and non-medical independent prescribing qualification.

Leadership- influence and support service change. Influence the agenda around specialist area of practice locally and nationally. Support the development of clinical guidelines and policy relevant to heart failure.

Research- use of Evidence Based Practice. Undertake/ support

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria
  • In receipt of or willing to work toward Level 7 Education to support clinical role
  • Can demonstrate ability to develop teaching packages and deliver teaching to a multi-professional audience and patients/relatives Maintains a live portfolio of evidence supporting the 4 pillars of Enhanced/Advanced practice
Desirable criteria
  • Holds a valid education/teaching qualification Qualification in the assessment and management of heart failure
  • Welsh Language Skills Speaking/Listening at Level 3

Clinical

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of working in cardiology/heart failure with heart
Desirable criteria
  • Non medical prescriber

Research

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates ability to undertake a Qip/Audit based project
  • Demonstrates ability to use evidence based practice to support clinical management
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrates an understanding of how to undertake a Qip/Audit based project

Leadership

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates ability to support change in practice
  • Demonstrates ability to work autonomously in clinical practice
  • Demonstrates ability to work within the context of a multi-disciplinary team
Desirable criteria
  • Holds a leadership qualification

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Age positiveDisability confident leaderStop Smoking Wales is the NHS Smoking Cessation Service in WalesMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.hyderus o ran anableddAccredited Living Wage EmployerWelsh logo for Armed Force Bronze Award for Cym Taf UHBAccredited Living Wage EmployerCore principlesPrentisiaethau Apprenticeships

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

Apply online now

Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Wendy Mashlan
Job title
Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01656 752752
Additional information

Heart Failure CNS POW 

[email protected]

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