Clinical Nurse Specialist Palliative Care - Team Leader

Are you a Clinical Nurse Specialist who would like the opportunity to lead and manage a pro-active and enthusiastic palliative care nursing team?
We are looking for an experienced and passionate nurse to lead a well-established and highly motivated team. We would welcome someone who has well developed assessment and leadership skills, with extensive experience to plan and provide skilled, competent care to meet patient needs, an excellent communicator who cares about making a difference to the quality of life for patients with life limiting illness. We would welcome applicants that have well developed transferable skills and an appetite to build their expertise within the speciality of palliative care.
This 12 month fixed term post offers the opportunity to lead a highly motivated and dynamic team which is committed to providing specialist palliative care. We are committed to ensuring timely and prudent care for all patients with palliative care needs. Working in a team of Palliative Care Consultants, Medical Staff, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Healthcare Support Workers/Complimentary Therapists and AHPs, you would be contributing to the development and delivery of this vital service.
You would initially be based in The Grange University Hospital but will have many opportunities to work throughout the 4 hospitals within the secondary care service in ABUHB. This will include the Grange University Hospital, Nevill Hall Hospital, Royal Gwent Hospital and Ysbyty Ystrad Fawr.

Main duties of the job
This individual will:
+ Effectively manage their own caseload of palliative care patients in secondary care, Monday to Friday 9-5pm and on a rotation for weekends
+ Be responsible for day to day management and leadership of the palliative care nursing team in the allocated base.
+ Be responsible for monitoring and auditing the service and promoting effective working links with both NHS and voluntary teams.
+ Be required to be involved in service development in line with the quality statement for Palliative and End of Life care in Wales.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this role; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

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. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
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
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed