Senior Nurse, Inpatient Services Older Adult Mental Health

Are you looking for an opportunity to be an influential member of the leadership team for our Older Adult Mental Health wards?

This career enhancing opportunity has arisen for a Senior Nurse who wishes to further progress their nursing career and play a key role in delivering safe quality care to our patients and developing services in line with the modernisation agenda for our older adult mental health services.

The role of the Senior Nurse is fundamental to managing ward teams to ensure patients receive safe, high-quality mental health care and a co-produced and positive patient experience which is responsive to the needs of patients, families, and their carers.

This role provides visible clinical knowledge, expertise and leadership for nurses and other health professionals providing care in an inpatient setting whilst working collaboratively with community mental health services and wider partners to ensure safe, high quality and effective delivery of care across the older adult acute mental health care pathway.

The role of the Senior Nurse is pivotal in delivering the vision of the Health Board, service users and carers onto our wards.

Interviews to be held on 13/1/25

Main duties of the job

Provide leadership and direction to all registered and unregistered nurses working in the delivery of adult acute mental health inpatient wards.

Direct, lead and motivate nursing staff to ensure the highest standards of professionalism, efficiency and effectiveness in service delivery.

Ensure the Health Board's aims and objectives and associated targets and strategies are clearly communicated to all relevant staff so that effective contributions to implementation of operational plans can be made.

Direct, lead and motivate nursing and other staff to maintain effective patient flow through acute inpatient services (mental health).

Direct, lead and motivate nursing and other staff working within the teams managed to ensure a high standard of professionalism, efficiency and effectiveness in service delivery, ensuring that activity is aligned to Health Board plans and strategies.

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

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 to almost 400,000 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.

Five community hospitals: Amman Valley Hospital and Llandovery Hospital in Carmarthenshire, Tregaron Hospital in Ceredigion and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire.

Two integrated care centres (Aberaeron and Cardigan, Ceredigion).

Community facilities, including:

48 General Practices (GP surgeries), 49 Dental Practices, 98 Community Pharmacies (chemists), 44 General Ophthalmic Practices (including eye health and low vision services), 38 sites providing mental health and learning disability services, care within your own homes

Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.