Community Triage Service CNS

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You will be responsible for triaging referrals and carrying out home visits to prevent further decline or admission to hospital by providing urgent care, equipment and specialist older person’s multidisciplinary assessment. The service will be developing into the Safe at Home team, which will aim to prevent hospital admission by managing acutely deteriorating patients in the community.

An exciting opportunity to join the newly created Community Triage Service within Cardiff and Vale University Health Board. We are recruiting to a Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist post and offer this to clinical staff with good IT knowledge and skills, that are keen to work in a busy, friendly and developing integrated single point of access for community service referrals. Ideally we would like you to have community/primary care experience.

The right candidate for this post will need to display excellent communication skills, problem solving and documentation with attention to detail and the ability to manage challenging and changing situations. They will require experience with managing deteriorating patients and have good clinical experience. They will be expected to work flexibly across the Cardiff and Vale bases and be available for home visits. They will also need to have a willingness to learn and be involved in service developments.

The post will involve working in partnership with the Vale Community Resource Service and collaboratively with related specialities across the UHB.

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

Cardiff and Vale University Health Boardis one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 15,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving around 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services.

Our mission is “Caring for People, Keeping People Well”, and our vision is that every person’s chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. As an organisation we are unashamedly ambitious for our population’s health, rising to the challenges of today and tomorrow through our 10-year strategy, Shaping our Future Wellbeing. We are contributing to a healthier Wales with great emphasis placed on innovation and improvement, learning from around the world and leading the way in clinical research. Partnership working is strong at Cardiff and Vale, and we work closely with our staff and our community.

Cardiff, the thriving Welsh capital, is a fantastic city to live and work in with an abundance of sports, arts and cultural attractions. Situated to the west of Cardiff, the Vale of Glamorgan offers a combination of beautiful Welsh countryside and a dramatic natural coastline. Whether city life or rural living, Cardiff and the Vale offers the best of both worlds.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Brooke Clark Job title: Nurse Team Lead Email address: brooke.clark@wales.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07912471308