Job Overview
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM STAFF CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY HYWEL DDA UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and motivated nurse to join a friendly, ambitious and exciting Public Health Directorate. Do you share a passion to protect our population, and have skills to lead others to do so?
The post holder will be responsible for the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of evidence‑based nursing care for a Health Protection and Immunisation service. Tests and vaccinations will be carried out in a variety of settings including vaccination/testing centres, patient’s homes, residential and nursing homes, clinic and hospital settings. They will manage the day‑to‑day operation of Testing and Immunisation services, ensuring managerial leadership of the staff within the team. The post holder will be accountable for the delivery of a high standard of professionalism and efficiency without direct supervision. They will maintain effective relationships with stakeholders, leading on delivering Health Protection and immunisation services, ensuring improvement to staff and patient care, communication and experience are central to all activities addressing performance issues as they present. The team may change at short notice and the post holder will be expected to react to change with a positive attitude and plan work accordingly with minimum disruption to service.
Main duties of the job
- Manage the day‑to‑day operation of the services and also facilitate requests to screen or vaccinate individuals in their own homes and care homes.
- Lead and develop the core nursing team for Health Protection and Immunisation services delivering compassionate, effective high quality, patient centred testing.
- Advise on the latest Health Board and national guidelines in liaison with Head of Nursing for Health Protection and Public Health Nursing, ensuring that staff are fully compliant and up to date with current guidelines.
- Provide visible and professional nursing leadership, support, supervision and guidance (in line with NMC standards) as well as expert clinical advice.
- Liaise with staff regarding referrals for testing, daily testing lists, electronic sample requests and accurate recordings of testing samples as well as referrals for vaccinations.
- Deal with complex clinical and managerial situations that arise. Recognise and respond appropriately to urgent and emergency situations.
- Ensure that the principles set out in the Fundamentals of Care are incorporated into daily practice to ensure a high‑quality service for service users, interpreting National policy and guidance to inform decision making.
Working for our organisation
Hywel Dda University Health Board plans and provides NHS healthcare services for people living in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, and bordering counties.
We have over 13,000 staff and together we provide primary, community, in‑hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services.
We work in partnership with the three local authorities, as well as public, private and third sector colleagues, including our valued team of volunteers.
- Four main hospitals: Bronglais Hospital in Aberystwyth; Glangwili Hospital in Carmarthen; Prince Philip Hospital in Llanelli; and Withybush Hospital in Haverfordwest.
- Five community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery hospitals in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron Hospital in Cerdigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire hospitals in Pembrokeshire.
- Two integrated care centres: Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion, and several other community settings.
- 47 general practices (six of which are health board managed practices); dental practices (including four orthodontic); 97 community pharmacies; 43 general ophthalmic practices; and 8 ophthalmic domiciliary providers.
- Numerous mental health and learning disabilities services.
Additional Information
Hywel Dda University Health Board operates a bilingual policy. All applicants are invited to apply in Welsh; any application submitted in Welsh will not be treated less favourably than an application made in English.
To work in the UK, all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland nationals require sponsorship to obtain either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa, unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply should self‑assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship by visiting Work in the UK. If you are eligible for the Health and Care visa, application costs are lower and you do not need to pay the annual Immigration Health Surcharge.
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