Staff Nurse, Cardiology / Endocrinology

The ward is committed to ensuring the best outcomes to acutely unwell patients with cardiology and endocrine conditions. This will involve the skills needed to nurse level 5 patients in designated high care bays. A period of time will be given for you to work with your mentor in preparation of your new role and excellent support is provided by an experienced group of ward sisters. Please contact the team for any informal visits or information, we would love to meet you.

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

Ward 4 is a specialty ward, caring for patients with cardiology , diabetes & endocrine patients who require high level of care. This advert is for extra RN's to increase the nurse staffing to ensure the ward is staffed appropriately and safely for the high level care we provide to patients in 2 designated bays within the ward (to level 4 and 5 patients). We want to invest in you, your education and your development are extremely important to us. We aim to send all nurses on Advanced Life Support (ALS) and support your learning and educational needs by sending you on courses in the University of South Wales. We will be as flexible as we can with your off duty requests as we acknowledge the need for flexible working and having a healthy work life balance ensures the team are happy, which in turn ensures our patients receive the safest and most efficient care. In your first few months we will ensure that you are trained in many skills that you will need. This includes cannulation and phlebotomy, male catheterisation , POC testing, blood transfusion and sampling, ILS , medicines management and IV drugs administration., 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 tea
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.