Job summary
- Main area
- Urology
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday -Friday)
- Job ref
- 110-NMR460-0924-B
- Employer
- Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cover may be across 3 acute sites POW/RGH & PCH
- Town
- Bridgend
- Salary
- £54,550 - £61,412 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Band 8a
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 toapplications submitted in either language.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Advanced Clinical Practitioner in the Urology Department within the Planned Care Group.
· The post holder will work as a Specialist Practitioner with advanced clinical skills within an interdepartmental and Multidisciplinary team primarily to ensure that patients presenting with urology disorders or complications of treatment, receive prompt and appropriate diagnostic tests, clinical assessment, treatment, intervention, care and therapy. The post holder will exercise advanced clinical expertise, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care, whilst maintaining a professional portfolio that supports their scope of practice, in accordance with the Health Board’s Framework for Advanced Practice.
Main duties of the job
The ACP/SCP in Urology will be expected to provide expert clinical practice, advice, and support relevant to this area of practice. The post holder will be expected to develop the work, patient pathway and staff within urology and to seek continually to improve the service, whilst providing for the capacity and demand issues of the department. They will work with a high degree of autonomy covering in patient care and provide TP biopsy and cystoscopic services.
The post holder will monitor and lead improvements to standards of care through; supervision of practice, clinical audit, implementation of evidence-based practice, teaching and support of colleagues and the provision of professional leadership. The will contribute to clinical governance by leading quality improvement, audit and research projects as part of the multidisciplinary service-wide performance and quality agenda.
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
The draft Scope of Practice will be completed with the successful candidate upon their appointment in to post where their individual skills, abilities and strengths can be reflected in the document.
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 &Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Professional registration (NMC, HCPC)
- Level 7 Education (Master’s Degree) relevant to area of practice
- Advanced theoretical knowledge and practical experience to carry out clinical consultation and/or examination relevant to area of practice
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of performing at Advanced Level of Practice
Desirable criteria
- Urology experience
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 Penry
- Job title
- Senior Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01656752752
- Additional information
01656 752752 ext 53284
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