Community Staff Nurse

An exciting opportunity for a Band 5 staff nurse to join our multi-professional Intermediate Frailty hospital avoidance service. This post is based within the Acute Clinical Team in Bridgend offering frailty crisis response and acute clinical management to patients in their own homes within the community. We welcome applicants from dedicated, compassionate and professional nurses who are committed to providing high standards of care and are committed to ongoing professional development., Clinical assessment and monitoring of patients, involving:

• + Undertaking patient observations and vital signs, weights and taking venous and capillary blood testing to inform clinical decision makers on treatments and therapies for a variety of acute clinical problems and diseases. + Making clinical judgements on a patient's condition and following the ACT escalation protocols to ensure appropriate clinical response from the team. + Collecting other investigations including non-blood biochemistry and microbiology samples. Also, notably (but not limited to); taking Electrocardiograms (ECGs), bladder scans or 24 hour blood pressure monitoring. + Undertaking screening cognitive assessments such as Abbreviated Mental Tests, 'MOCAs' and 4AT delirium screening.
  
  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 and behaviours:
• 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.