Job summary
- Main area
- Staff Nurse - PCH Frailty
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Days/nights across 7 days)
- Job ref
- 110-NMR299-0725
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ward 10 Prince Charles Hospital
- Town
- Merthyr Tydfil
- Salary
- £30,420 - £37,030 Per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Staff Nurse - PCH Frailty
Band 5
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 become available for motivated individuals to join our Frailty unit on ward 10 PCH.
The successful candidates will be working within a 24 bedded unit where you will be caring for patients with various medical conditions.
The aim of the unit is to appropriately assess patients, to facilitate discharge to a safe suitable environment .
The successful candidates will be working within a large MDT including PT/OT and SALT.
Main duties of the job
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.
Caring for a group of patients with various medical conditions.
Identify any health needs using a multidisciplinary approach and put plans in place to get patients home as soon as medically fit, to prevent deconditioning and getting infections.
Other duties include:
Administration of medications.
Performing observations including neuro obs.
Pressure area care.
Assessing pain.
Discharge planning . D2RA Pathway.
Risk assessments/care planning.
Documentation.
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.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Pressure area care
Desirable criteria
- Experience in COTE
- Working within a large MDT
- Experience in Dementia care
Registration
Essential criteria
- Live UK NMC registration
Skills
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Language Skills (Level 3 and above/B2)
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
- Sarah Channon
- Job title
- Ward manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01685728555
- Additional information
Available within working hours 07.30-15.30 Mon-Fri.
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