Job summary
- Main area
- Community / District Nursing
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (on call Senior Manger on call roster covering weekends and nights)
- Job ref
- 110-NMR294-0725
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- CTM wide
- Town
- CTM wide to be confirmed
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Nurse Specialist Services
Band 8a
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 suitably qualified Adult General Registered Nurse with significant Band 7 experience to apply for the exciting role of Senior Nurse for Specialist Services including Diabetes, Respiratory,Aural care,Bladder and Bowel,Wound clinic, Lymphedema, Tissue Viability.
The applicant must be confident and competent in a wide range of skills and demonstrate evidence of continuing professional learning and development. There is a requirement for a flexible approach to work and the ability to travel between sites . Experience working within a community setting and experience/ qualification or demonstration of management experience within a specialist service would be advantageous.
For informal discussion please email Senior Nurse [email protected]
English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
Main duties of the job
There will be multiple demands in this exciting new role due to the imminent need for a new service design for many of the services within the portfolio. This includes leading on change management and quality improvement action plans for each of the services under this portfolio.
Leadership within this role will be of paramount importance therefore the individual must have excellent leadership and communication skills in order to support team leaders with change management/ action plans in order to give assurance on the safe, effective and efficient care delivery within the Services.
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
Leadership and change management
Quality Improvement
Financial accountability for Specialist Service teams establishments and spend.
Governance of services including training, Datix , concerns , PADR
Role model for teams
Work closely with Operational Management and Lead Nurse to implement and lead on new service developments and quality improvement works.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant relevant clinical experience at Band 7 or equivalent or above.
- Demonstrate experience in effective resource management skills. Working in a wide range of clinical areas.
- Experience implementing innovation and change management in clinical practice.
Desirable criteria
- Experience working within health and social service systems, both at local and strategic levels
- Experience at band 7 level in a community setting
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered professional with current NMC registration
- Master’s Level or possess skills, knowledge and/or training and experience to its equivalency
Desirable criteria
- Research Module
- SPQ qualification community or equivalent
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
- Lisa King
- Job title
- Nyrs Arweiniol Lead nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07977 381800
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