Job summary
- Main area
- Critical Care and Pain Services
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full Time (to include on call))
- Job ref
- 110-NMR312-0725
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Glamorgan Hospital
- Town
- Llantrisant
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/07/2025 23:59
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Senior Nurse Critical Care and Pain Services
Band 8a
Thank you for your interest in joining Cwm Taf Morgannwg (CTM) University Health Board.
Located in the heart of South Wales, we’re central to Cardiff, Newport, and Swansea. Deeply rooted in our community, as an NHS organisation we are dedicated to providing compassionate patient care and building healthier communities together.
At CTM, you’ll be part of a supportive, inclusive team of over 14,500 people from diverse nations, cultures, and backgrounds. As a family-friendly employer, we’re committed to promoting flexibility and are happy to discuss flexible working options.
Discover more about working with us here:
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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 an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Nurse to work within Critical Care and Pain Services at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital. This portfolio sits within the Planned Care Group.
You will require effective decision-making skills, the ability to challenge, work independently and in a team. You will work alongside the Service Group Managers for anaesthetics, critical care, theatres and trauma and orthopaedics and will support the Lead Nurse and Head of Nursing in ensuring the highest standards of nursing practice and nursing development, by monitoring clinical governance and patient safety standards within all aspects of the clinical environment.
Main duties of the job
As a Senior Nurse for Critical Care and Pain Services you will provide professional leadership for the nursing teams within these area.
You should possess significant relevant clinical experience at Band 7 or equivalent or above and demonstrate a good understanding of Critical Care. You will need to demonstrate strong clinical and professional leadership within the Planned Care Group, being a visible and supportive role model.
In order to be effective in the role you will need to demonstrate an excellent understanding of patient flow, management process, Putting Things Right and Safeguarding. You must be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills and have the ability to liaise with colleagues across professional and Organisational boundaries.
As a key member of the Senior Nursing team, you will work closely with the Lead Nurse and Head of Nursing to ensure the delivery of high quality, safe and cost effective patient-centred care.
To succeed in this role you will need to inspire and motivate through good communication skills. You must be willing to embrace a broad range of new challenges, possess the knowledge, and drive to create and deliver the best pathway for our patents.
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
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 and selecting 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
Person specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- UK NMC Registration
- Master’s Level or possess skills, knowledge and/or training and experience to its equivalency
Desirable criteria
- Management qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Management experience
- Significant relevant clinical experience at Band 7 or equivalent or above
Desirable criteria
- Management Training
- Report Writing
- Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above) are Desirable for this Role.
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
- Sophie O'Donovan
- Job title
- Lead Nurse ACCTTO / Nyrs Arweiniol ACCTTO
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Lead Nurse
Directorate Offices
Royal Glamorgan Hospital
Ynysmaerdy
Llantrisant
CF72 8XR
Due to cross site working please contact via email
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