District Nurse Team Leader

District Nurse Team Leader

The closing date is 23 October 2025

Integrated Network Services

This post is a permanent position within the Integrated Network Services in the East of Bridgend. As a Team Leader within our Integrated services you are in the unique position to work within and lead a team who are fully focused on holistic person centred care, with a what matters to the individual and family approach. As a Specialist Practice and Public Health practitioner you will have a full multi disciplinary team of professionals at your fingertips to provide a full preventative health agenda whilst focusing on the continuous improvement of self, your team and community cluster your serve.

Main duties of the job

This position provides an exciting opportunity for highly motivated and ambitious District Nurse who is committed to excellence in care and the passionate leadership of District Nursing services.

The successful candidate will provide vision and energy in developing holistic integrated care and support for the patient and those who are important to them. The role requires effective management and strong leadership qualities. The post holder, will be skilled and creative, with high levels of autonomy and advanced clinical decision making. The post holders will need to work closely with GPs and surgery staff, and the wider multi-disciplinary staff to support individuals to have good quality emotional and physical well-being in their own homes.

The successful candidate will offer clinical leadership within the Network Team and provide support and professional development for their staff. They will oversee the operational management of the a given caseload, ensuring high quality care for patients and support for those important to them. As a team leader for the service you will be responsible for ensuring prudency, consistency and a positive work culture, where all team members feel valued and included.

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.

Job responsibilities

Welsh Skills Desirable: This post is advertised as Welsh Desirable. This doesnt 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 isnt 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.

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

Person Specification Skills

• Evidence of competence in a wide range of clinical skills
• Evidence of experience of complex decision making
• Evidence of multi-agency working
• Evidence of excellent leadership skills
• Evidence of teaching and presentation skills
• Welsh language speaking/listening skills at Level 3 or above

Experience

• Evidence of working and leading in sensitive and complex situations

Understanding of the DN Principles and relation to practice

• Understanding of the DN Principles and relation to practice
• Is able to articulate current WG and UHB policy and how this underpins own practice
• Holds a live NMC registered pin
• Has an understanding of the current governance agenda and can link these to own practice
• Is able to successfully prioritise own work and utilise the delegation policy
• Is able to use Health Roster
• Has completed Datix training and is able to complete investigations

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board