Senior Nurse - Mental Health

Job summary

Job Summary/Job Purpose:

The post holder is expected to work with autonomy to provide highly specialised

professional advice to colleagues to ensure high standards of direct care delivery. This includes interpreting and implementing national policy and supporting systems for professional revalidation and performance management of ward managers that are accountable for quality, safe care.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

• Have overall responsibility and accountability for the operational management and governance of their area of responsibility within Royal Glamorgan Hospital (RGH) and Prince Charles Hospital (PCH) ensuring effective and efficient use of resources.
• Have delegated budgetary responsibility for nursing and allied healthcare professional services within the sphere of responsibility, and be an authorised signatory in line with the University Health Board financial control procedures/scheme of delegation.
• To undertake financial assessments of new developments or changes in service provision and monitoring of benefits within the sphere of responsibility. To contribute to the Services Cost Improvement Plan and Income Generation Targets and endeavour to seek ways of improving value for money.
• Implement and evaluate the University Health Board Resource and Operational Plan and performance against targets, as it applies to the sphere of responsibility.
• Identifying areas for continuous improvement and their implementation.
• Be responsible for all aspects of the fundamentals of care, identifying risks,
• developing proposals for corrective action and improvement, monitoring, and evaluating implementation.
• Be responsible for undertaking complex investigations of clinical incidents, complaints and professional issues following Health Board Policy and acting upon findings/recommendations.

About us

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.