Job summary
- Main area
- Facilities
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- 14 months (Fixed Term or Internal Secondment to 28/06/2027 to cover maternity leave)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (8am - 4pm Monday to Friday)
- Job ref
- 040-AC108-0326
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Cadoc's Hospital
- Town
- Caerleon
- Salary
- £39,263 - £47,280 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Advisor - Patient Equipment
Band 6
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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
The Agenda for Change Pay Award for 2026/27 is effective from 1st April 2026.
Please note successful applicants with a start date from 1st April onwards the salary will be as per the 2026/27 pay award. For further detail the pay circular is available via this link https://www.nhs.wales/files/pc-resources/afc-w-02-2026-pdf-pdf?ts=1773244958086
Job overview
UK Professional Registration is required to apply for this post.
This post is Fixed Term or Internal Secondment until 28/06/2027, to cover maternity leave.
We are pleased to offer an exciting secondment opportunity for a motivated and experienced clinician to join our team as a Clinical Assessor in the Patient Equipment service.
The postholder will be responsible for assessing referrals, including ad hoc patient assessments, and advising clinical colleagues regarding pressure relieving equipment for both hospital and community settings (including patients homes). You will work closely with clinical colleagues, MDTs, patients, carers and external providers to ensure timely and effective equipment solutions.
Informal discussion is welcomed and encouraged.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will work closely with key colleagues to develop the service to optimise efficiency, effectiveness and responsiveness, and to develop and implement new initiatives to improve quality including the development of training materials to increase the knowledge of clinical colleagues in relation to the monitoring and/or use of patient equipment.
You will be responsible for the day to day management of the Patient Equipment service providing specialist advice to, and assessment of referrals from, clinical colleagues to support effective and good quality patient care.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
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
Qualifications and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Registered Healthcare Professional with current professional registration
- Post-graduate qualification or specialist training, experience, short courses equivalent to post-graduate diploma
- Evidence of continued professional development
- In depth knowledge and experience of risk management and clinical governance.
- In depth knowledge of adult protection and other policies that affect vulnerable people
- Extensive knowledge of caring for patients at risk of developing pressure areas
- Understanding of local and national health agenda
Desirable criteria
- Qualification or experienced in development and delivery of training
- Leading and managing change
- Demonstrable good standard of IT skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working collaboratively across organisational boundaries
- Experience of communicating sensitive, complex and potentially distressing information appropriately to different audiences
- Ability to produce any written documentation to a high standard
- Experience in quality/audit systems
- Experience of working in a community based clinical/care setting, or within a team which supports these functions
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Skilled at managing own caseload and working autonomously
- Ability to engage and work effectively and collaboratively with relevant agencies and multi-disciplinary professionals at all levels
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Excellent influencing and negotiation skills.
- To be calm, professional and reassuring at all times when dealing with other agencies and the public
- Flexible approach to the needs of the service
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel efficiently for meetings and assessments and other purposes as required by the business
Desirable criteria
- Welsh Speaker (Level 1) or willingness to work towards
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Philipa Freeman
- Job title
- Clinical Assessor
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01633 436808
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