Deputy Clinical Team Leader - Vaccs & Imms/Health Protection

Job summary

We are delighted to offer this exciting opportunity for a Registered Nurse to join us in our community based Health Protection Service. As a Deputy Clinical Team Leader working primarily in a vaccination, immunisation and testing role you will also enjoy the benefits of gaining experience in our developing wider health protection model.

This post will be of interest to highly motivated nurses wishing to develop their knowledge, skills and experience in leading and managing nursing teams. Applicants will also need to demonstrate a positive commitment and enthusiasm to developing excellence in population health protection.

The successful candidate will directly lead a team of nurses working flexibly across the Health Board footprint. You'll be fully committed to providing the highest standard of vaccination, immunisation & testing services across all age groups. This will be for both our general public and also our staff who live and work in the Health Board.

Vaccination saves lives and we therefore aim that all vulnerable settings are supported with sound nursing guidance on prevention and management of disease outbreaks as well as testing and tracing processes. This will be for all critical settings across health and social care, HMP Parc and other environments within CTMUHB. The role includes outreach activity into patients own homes involving lone working when needed.

Main duties of the job

In support of the Clinical Team Leader the post holder will significantly contribute to reducing identified inequalities in population health between our most, and least, deprived groups and communities. The successful applicant will act as a skilled site clinical lead for agreed immunisation and testing programmes.

This will require the post holder to carry out a broad spectrum of general and operational duties to ensure the smooth and effective running of services. On a day-to-day basis the Deputy Clinical Team Leader will support the core nursing team undertaking a range of line management duties.

In addition, the successful candidate will routinely deputise for the Clinical Team Leader undertaking any delegated responsibilities including progressing programmes of clinical work as required.

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesn't mean essential; whilst the candidate doesn't need to have skills in Welsh, we'll consider it an advantage when short-listing and selecting candidates. This isn't 'fluency', just Speaking & Listening skills at Level 3 (equivalent to CEFR B2) or above. Level 3 means basic conversations with patients about their everyday health. For more information, see 'Welsh Language Guidance' in the documents right at the bottom.

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.