Job overview

Band 5 - Staff Nurse - Princess of Wales Hospital Day Medical Unit

This post will be based in the Medical Day Unit at Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend.

The successful candidate will work autonomously to carry out nursing interventions within the remit of their training and skills for example venepuncture, venesection, cannulation, wound dressings, assembly of medical and surgical equipment and preparations, and administration of specialised prescribed medications and injections.

The ability to be able to perform venepuncture and cannulation would be an advantage as a desirable but not an essential skill as training could be provided.

The advertised post is 15 hours per week with the need on occasion to work flexibly in these hours.

Main duties of the job

The Princess of Wales Hospital is continually striving to improve patients’ experiences and outcomes. We are committed to the delivery of excellent patient care.

We are looking for dynamic, forward thinking and committed nurse to join our dedicated team within the Medical Day Unit.

The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills and a passion for delivering high quality person centred care.  

 We have fantastic opportunities for you to develop your clinical skills and knowledge to undertake comprehensive investigations, blood product transfusion and drug treatments, such as venepuncture, cannulation, venesection, blood and platelet transfusions, immunoglobulins, biologics, endocrine investigations and iron infusions whilst adhering to the Health Board training policies, procedures and guidelines, within the remit of one's own competency level.

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. For more information, see the ‘Croeso Candidate’ booklet below.

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.