Community Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 5 Community Nurse based in Coach & Horses Surgery, St Clears. The role will allow you to provide and be accountable for the provision of a high standard of cost effective, safe, individualised nursing care to patients in the community through assessing, planning, implementing and evaluation of patient care. The post holder will provide care to adults in their own homes, residential or nursing care home, clinic setting or holiday accommodation with any medical/nursing condition. This includes liaising with staff, patient/carers and other agencies/organisations as required to ensure appropriate delegation of duties and risk management, whilst ensuring effective communication between those involved in the care package. The post holder will need the ability to travel between sites in a timely manner. The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post but not essential. This is a permanent part time position up to 30 hours per week over a
7 day period to include weekends/bank holidays., The post holder will have delegated responsibility for accepting appropriate referrals onto caseload. You will carry out an assessment of nursing needs, deciding on the use of appropriate assessment tools to plan appropriate nursing care, deciding on frequency of visits, deciding when care should be reviewed and altering care plan accordingly, in conjunction with the Team Leader.

You will provide nursing procedures which could include titration of medication in the use of syringe drivers for pain relief in terminal care, use of Doppler ultrasound scanner, performing Venepuncture, care of central and peripheral lines, undertaking Continence assessments, manual evacuations, catheter management, diabetic management and other nursing procedures.

Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:

Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest;

Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire;

47 general practices (6 of which are managed practices), 45 dental practices (including 4 orthodontic), 96 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres