Staff Nurse

Job summary

The Welsh Centre For Burns and Plastics Surgery offers world leading care for patients of all ages from both Wales and England. As we are the Adult Burns Centre for the South West UK Network, it covers a population of 10 million patients from Aberystwyth in the far West of Wales to Oxford and Portsmouth in the South of England. We treat around 750 burns patients a year, of which half will require inpatient treatment.

This exciting opportunity within the Burns Theatres/OPD team involves providing immediate and on-going wound care for both inpatients and outpatients. This diverse role also requires care to be provided in the Burns operating theatre, where procedures such as burn debridement with skin grafting, escharotomies, tracheostomy and evaluation of major burns under anaesthetic and intensive wound care take place. Experience is desirable but not essential as a full training programme is provided.

Main duties of the job

Providing wound care for both inpatients and outpatients.

Providing support to the surgical team in theatre i.e. scrub and circulating duties.

Working across the template of the Burns unit to provide inpatient wound care.

Working within an outpatient setting as well as a theatre setting.

On call commitment which is incorporated into the working week to cover emergency admissions into theatre.

About us

We believe staff are our best asset and wewant you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board.

As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.

You might be a nurse ordoctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - wehave a job for you.

There are also apprenticeships, work placementsand volunteering roles available.

We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled.

Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show thatour commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.

If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery,with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.