Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatrics
- Grade
- Band 8c
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 110-NMR222-0525
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Keir Hardie Health Park
- Town
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Salary
- £75,405 - £86,885 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Head of Nursing - Children & Young People
Band 8c
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 Head of Nursing within Children and Young People's services at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board.
We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and forward thinking Head of Nursing to join and lead the team.
The post holder will provide leadership and clinical expertise to the children & young people teams across a range of services within Cwm Taf Morgannwg.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be based within the Children and Families Care Group within Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board as the Head of Nursing
The post holder is responsible in conjunction with the Director of Midwifery & Nursing for the Children and Families Care Group for the quality and patient experience of services within the appropriate Directorate ensuring optimum standards of patient care via the effective and efficient management of human, financial and physical resources aligned to the principles of Value Based Healthcare.
The post holder will lead on a portfolio of work identified by the Care Group Midwifery & Nurse Director, with a focus on quality improvement and innovation, care standards, learning and patient experience across the Directorate supported by the Senior Nursing & Midwifery Team.
The post holder will be a key senior member of the Directorate working closely with the management team, playing a key role in the, development of services and service improvement to include Health & Social care integration. The post holder will have a key responsibility for the delivery of the Quality agenda within the Directorate.
The post holder will provide nursing leadership and expert nursing advice and will work closely with the Care Group Midwifery & Nurse Director to ensure that a high standard of patient care is delivered.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English 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
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
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Support the Care Group Midwifery & Nurse Director in workload management, workforce planning and modernisation for the nursing profession. Ensure that nurse staffing level meets the requirements of the All Wales Nurse Staffing Act and service specific standards and guidelines. - Responsible for the implementation of relevant regulatory and advisory guidance from within the specialist field of practice.
- Responsible for monitoring effective deployment of the nursing resource to maintain quality and safe patient care using professional judgement and triangulated methodology.
- Provide specialist (Speciality specific) information to the Care Group Midwifery & Nurse Director and to other colleagues across the organisation and partner agencies.
- Responsible for providing opportunities to engage the public in service development and monitoring of patient satisfaction such as Patient Reported Experience Measures (PREMS)/Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMS).
- Responsible for identifying opportunities for changing services through innovation, improvement, redesign, job enrichment/enlargement as a result of changes in policies.
- To participate in multi-disciplinary/multi-agency forums to enhance closer working relationships including the 3rd sector.
- Responsible for raising the profile and promoting the Nursing Service within the Children & Families Care Group, inside and outside the University Health Board.
- Works with the Care Group Midwifery & Nurse Director and senior team to build and maintain strong influential relationships with colleagues, staff and internal and external stakeholders to enable the service to develop a culture of collaborative working and a commitment to delivering quality services and outcomes for patients, ensuring the patients’ voice is heard in all key activities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- MSc and/ or equivalent clinical experience that recognises highly developed and complex levels of knowledge
Experience
Essential criteria
- Managing a cross site, complex function
- Experience of managing a budget
- Experience of implementing Evidence Based Practice
Desirable criteria
- Experience of SLAs and contractual working
- Experience of managing other staff groups
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse complex problems and to develop practical and workable solutions to address them
Desirable criteria
- Good Computer Skills
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
- Suzanne Hardacre
- Job title
- Director of Midwifery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01685 728881
- Additional information
Mohamed Elnasharty
Care Group Medical Director
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