Employer Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
Employer type NHS
Site Community Health Offices
Town Pontypridd
Salary £46,840 - £53,602 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 09/04/2025 23:59
Band 7
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.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a SCPHN School Nurse to join our team in Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board as School Nurse Team Leader.
The purpose of this post is to support the Senior Nurse for School Nursing by providing strong, visible and compassionate leadership, and clinical expertise to the School Nursing team.
Working autonomously to operationally manage a defined group of staff. We are looking for an individual who has a broad knowledge of School Nursing practice and a clear vision of best practice, who comes with an innovative and can-do attitude to ensure a one team approach to service delivery.
This role is required to ensure the planning, implementation and delivery of the Healthy Child Wales Programme 2 (HCWP2) by the School Nursing team is underpinned by the appropriate governance and quality assurance, which aligns to local and national strategic priorities and health board values and behaviours.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the team leader role include some of the following:
* Maintains clinical credibility by providing specialist advice and role modelling to the school nursing team.
* This post holder is required to be a skilled and creative practitioner, ensuring efficient and effective service delivery through demand and capacity management and required caseload supervision.
* The effective day to day leadership and management of staff to ensure the delivery of a quality assured school nursing service, using a one team approach.
* The post holder will proactively identify gaps in service delivery and work in collaboration with the School Nursing team, health board colleagues and external stakeholders to develop School Nursing initiative and programmes.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh 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
The purpose of this post is to support the Senior Nurse for School Nursing by providing strong, visible and compassionate leadership. Working autonomously to operationally manage a defined group of staff.
This role is to ensure the delivery of the Healthy Child Wales Programme 2 (HCWP2) by the School Nursing team is underpinned by the appropriate governance and quality assurance, which aligns to local and national strategic priorities and health board values and behaviours.
The role is required to provide expert specialist clinical advice and support to their team.
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
* Registered SCPHN School Nurse
* Postgraduate level study or equivalent and relevant experience, skills and knowledge.
* Demonstrates an in-depth knowledge and understanding of the public health agenda for school aged children and the landscape of School Nursing in Wales.
* Comprehensive knowledge and skills of IT.
* Working towards professional development programmes at Master’s level.
Skills and attributes
* Demonstrates clinical competence
* Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to service delivery.
* A high level of interpersonal and communication skills.
* Able to demonstrate ability to articulate at a senior level.
* Ability to identify gaps in service delivery and understand the governance and quality agendas.
* Self-management/motivational skills.
* Ability to network with health colleagues and stakeholders.
* Able to apply diplomacy and emotional intelligence.
* Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues.
Experience
* Skilled practitioner with experience of multi-discipline/multi-agency working.
* Demonstrates management and clinical leadership.
Other role requirements
* Works in alignment with the health board values.
* Commitment to service development and ability to lead and drive change.
* Ability to travel between sites and undertake visits in a timely manner.
* The ability to work flexibility to meet the needs of the service.
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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