Job summary
- Main area
- Palliative Care
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Mon - Fri but part of a 7 day roster)
- Job ref
- 110-NMR292-0725
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Y Bwthyn Princess of Wales Hospital
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £46,840 - £53,602 per annum, pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Specialist Palliative Care
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
An opportunity has arisen to join our Palliative care clinical nurse service. A 22.5 hour post has become available as a result of a member of the team leaving for a newly created post.
The Band 7 CNS role is located at Y Bwthyn our palliative care unit within the grounds of the Princess of Wales Hospital. The position provides an outreach service to patients with palliative care needs across the community. While working as part of the 7 day roster the service provides support to both the hospital and community area. The team provides support for the population of Bridgend Borough Council including the Ogmore, Garw and Llynfi valleys and the Princess of Wales Hospital.
The specialist palliative care service is delivered within MDT teams on multiple sites across Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board. An appreciation that on occasions, dependent on patient need there may be a need for post holder flexibility in providing support to cover the CNS role across other sites.
Main duties of the job
The position involves directly supporting and advising patients with palliative care needs in a hospital and community setting.
Multidisciplinary team working to lead education and to provide support and guidance to colleagues about the specialty is key. The core hours are Monday to Friday 9-5pm but with participation in a 7 day roster with the same working hours. The role will require giving advice to other health care professionals, patients and families, potentially visiting patients in the hospital and community setting at weekends.
The successful applicant would be responsible for managing a caseload of patients with specialist palliative care needs in collaboration with the wider MDT, participating in an education, audit and providing leadership regarding the specialty.
You will need to be enthusiastic about the specialty, demonstrate experience of caring for patients with palliative care needs and be able to meet the travel requirements.
The Specialist Palliative Care Team in CTMUHB is a multi-professional team providing a clinical, advisory and educational service across CTMUHB. The team are situated in locality bases which each have a SPC inpatient unit and house services that provide outreach services to both community and hospital patients.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
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
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 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.
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- UK NMC Registered Nurse
- Qualification in palliative care at Degree/Diploma or equivalent skills, knowledge and experience, supplemented by specialist training, experience, short courses to Master’s Level equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Teaching and assessing qualification
- Welsh Skills Desirable (Level 3/B2 or above)
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills
Desirable criteria
- Proven ability of practice development and innovation
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience, with experience of caring for patients with palliative care needs
Desirable criteria
- Bereavement Care; Audit; Community nursing
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
- Paula Cooper
- Job title
- Palliative Care Senior Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07919 591551
- Additional information
Y Bwthyn Princess of Wales 01656 752003
Y Bwthyn Royal Glamorgan 01443 443 443 ext 72324
List jobs with Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board in Nursing and Midwifery or all sectors