Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for, enthusiastic and highly motivated Band 2 HCSW  to join our team on our Mental Health Inpatient Unit  based at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital.  We provide person centred care for people suffering with significant mental health difficulties and associated challenging presentations. The position is available on our PICU (Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit). These are 1  time posts at 37.5 hours per week.

The successful candidate will be expected to work collaboratively with the qualified staff to ensure that a high standard of care is maintained across the unit, and  be expected to demonstrate a genuine interest in this field of nursing, displaying  excellent people skills such as communication.   They will be expected to work as part of a team, ensuring the delivery of high quality person centred patient care.

Staff working within this environment are afforded the opportunity to experience diverse mental illnesses.

Main duties of the job

Develop communication skills in order to convey routine information
effectively to patients, carers and other staff.

Observe and report the effects of all interventions to the Registered nurse.

Ensure effective communication with all members of the Multi
Disciplinary Team, advocates and relatives.

Ensure all incidents which may compromise Health and Safety are
reported in an appropriate and timely manner.

Support the delivery of a range of interventions required to support
service users meeting their personal care needs ensuring safety,
privacy and dignity is maintained at all times.

Observe the safety of service users at all times, Assist with safe and supportive levels of engagement of patients
deemed to be at risk of self harm

Develop rapport based upon a working relationship which maintains appropriate boundaries at all times.

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.