Urology Nurse Practitioner / Trainee Urology Nurse Practitioner

The successful candidate will be required to work at various sites across the health board in order to meet the needs of the service. The Urology department is currently run across 3 sites;
+ Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Llantrisant
+ Princess of Wales Hospital, Bridgend and
+ Princes Charles Hospital, Merthyr Tydfil
In collaboration with the Consultant Urological Surgeons and the Urology Nurse Practitioners, the post holder will aid in providing a comprehensive urological service for the patients within Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board (CTMUHB) catchment area.
The successful candidate will :
+ Provide highly developed specialist knowledge and skills within Urological Nursing to the multi-disciplinary team.
+ Provide advice and support to patients and their families.
+ Organisation and clinical provision of Urological services across CTMUHB.
+ Manage own caseload autonomously without direct supervision making decisions on care based on own interpretations, analysis and options available.
+ Provide specialist training and education.
+ Develop and aid in the development and implementation of policies, procedures and protocols.
+ Plan, manage and facilitate nurse led clinics.
+ Deputise for all Nurse Practitioner for Urology as and when required in their absence., + Be actively involved in all of the below nurse led Urology clinics, as well as providing supervision and support to junior and unregistered staff;
+ Trail without catheter (TWOC) clinics
+ Elevated Prostate-Specific-Antigen (PSA) management
+ One Stop Prostate Biopsy clinic including Local anaesthetic transperineal prostate biopsy (LATPB).
+ Lower Urinary tract systems (LUTS) clinic.
+ Rapid Access Haematuria clinic.
+ Follow up Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH).
+ Telephone follow up post prostatic surgery/BPH.
+ Pre admission clinic.
+ Intravesical chemotherapy/immunotherapy.
+ Follow up and New prostate cancer clinic.
For Candidates who would like to be considered for a training and devlopment role under an annex 21:
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 RE: ANNEX 21. Please Note : There will be some circumstances where current staff apply for these posts under Category (iii), and their new trainee salary will be below that of their current salary. To aid both the recruitment and development of staff it is recommended that staff across NHS Wales should have continuity of pay for the duration of the training to avoid financial detriment. This should apply when staff take up training posts both within and across NHS Wales organisations. Following this training, the remuneration will be the bottom of the Band 7, again without financial detriment.
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.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply., + Evidenced experience of working within the Urology speciality and be able to Identify and exercise best practice guidelines for all urological conditions and procedures.
+ Evidenced and demonstrable experience of working autonomously and managing their own caseload.
+ Be competent to perform pelvic examinations as well as digital rectal examinations (DRE) in order to facilitate Nurse led prostate clinics for both new and follow up patients.
+ Be experienced in Urology Oncology and have a good understanding of the various Urological cancer pathways.
+ Be able to carry out the role of a cancer key worker, including holistic needs assessments.
+ Be competent to undertake nurse led flexible cystoscopy clinics with urology consultant on site cover for advice and escalation
+ Be keen to learn and develop their professional knowledge and skill set to meet the needs of the service.
+ Be proactive in the development and running of new initiatives within the clinical field.

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.

Band 7 / Band 7 Annex 21
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 to applications submitted in either language.
Please be advised that there is a temporary top up for Bands 1,2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top up to the living wage of £12 per hour - £23,465 per annum. This temporary top up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2024/25 is confirmed, During the training period, the post holder will be paid at 70% of the top pay step of a Band 7 (for Months 1 - 12) and at 75% of the top pay step of a Band 7 (for Months 13 - 24) in accordance with Annex 21 of the Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions.
Upon successful completion and approval of the development, even if sooner than the 24 month allocated timeframe, the post holder will automatically move to the bottom pay step of Band 7, as they will meet the full outline of this role, and therefore be expected to undertake all duties within this Job Description.