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Band 5 nurse recruitment

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Come and join us as a Band 5 nurse

Swansea Bay University Health Board is growing - and we need more nurses. Could you be one of them?

The Swansea Bay area, which covers Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, is a diverse, friendly and stunning part of the UK, which offers a fantastic work-life balance.

The heath board has several large and busy hospitals comprising of many skilled and dedicated teams. It also integrates much of its care with community and primary care services, focusing on a holistic approach.

Home to the UK’s first Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty – the Gower Peninsula – and many beautiful beaches and mountains to explore, joining us means you’ll get fantastic career opportunities coupled with a wonderful quality of life.

Why join Swansea Bay University Health Board?

Swansea Bay University Health Board not only provides care to the population of Swansea and Neath Port Talbot, but offers a wide range of specialist tertiary services to other areas, as far afield as the South West of England.

Joining us means you will have exposure to a wide range of career opportunities. We have three major hospitals and employ over 12,500 staff who work hard to provide a range of clinically excellent services, including:

  • Regional services for cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, plastics, trauma, renal, stroke, and neurology
  • A national paediatric cleft lip and palate service to a population of 2.3 million
  • The Welsh Institute of Metabolic and Obesity Surgery
  • The Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery, providing a service for South and Mid Wales and the South West of England
  • The South West Wales Cancer Centre fit with a fantastic new Maggie’s Centre built in its grounds
  • Regional Neuro Rehabilitation Service
  • Forensic Mental Health Services (for the whole of South Wales)
  • Learning Disability Services (from Swansea to Cardiff).  
  • Regional neonatal intensive care.
  • Singleton Hospital also has a consultant-led obstetrics which deals with the most complex cases from across South West Wales
  • SBU HB manages the NHS IVF service for South Wales.
  • Morriston Hospital also carries out open-heart surgery at its Cardiac Centre, one of only two hospitals in Wales providing this service; (the other is Cardiff).

We aspire to grow our own, and have excellent ongoing paid training and development opportunities in place. Joining us on the medical or surgical wards could be the first step to an exciting nursing career.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values of “caring for each other”, “working together” and “always improving.”

It’s not all about hospital-based care either. If you want to be a part of an innovative organisation driving forward services forward, Swansea Bay is the place to be. For example, we are currently rolling out community-based virtual wards, with separate multidisciplinary teams targeting specific health and social care needs of the cluster population that they serve. Please go here to read more about this innovative concept aimed at providing holistic, patient-centred, high quality care.

We are also part of a Regional Collaboration for Health (ARCH), a partnership with Hywel Dda University Health Board and Swansea University. ARCH is a unique collaboration project aimed at improving the health, wealth and wellbeing of South West Wales, so it’s an exciting time to join the organisation.

Further benefits of working for Swansea Bay include:

  • Free parking at all of our hospital sites
  • Annual Leave - You will receive a generous annual leave allowance of 27 days leave a year plus bank holidays, rising to 29 days after five years and 33 days after ten years service.
  • Health and Well-being - Health and well-being initiatives are available across the Health Board, including discounted gym membership at a vast number of centres across Wales.
  • Occupational Health - All employees have access to our occupational health services: the service can support staff with stress management, confidential counselling and seasonal vaccinations.
  • Generous Contributory Pension Scheme
  • NHS Discounts – access to a range of discount schemes including Blue Light Card and other schemes.
  • Development - Excellent ongoing paid training and development opportunities, including access to coaching and mentoring.

So what are you waiting for? Come join us!

Working in a Health Board with so many tertiary services brings a huge amount of opportunity and experience to incorporate into your nursing career. Take the next step in that career today by getting in touch to find out what your next move could be.

Please go here to view live vacancies and apply for nursing jobs 

Our main campaign is presently offering a generic ‘Band 5 Staff Nurse’ vacancy which we encourage you to apply to - departments, wards and locations can be discussed at interview.

Whilst we are employing to general medical and surgical nursing posts, there is plenty of opportunity within the health board to move to our specialist services.

If you can’t see a live generic Band 5 advert, or if you have any questions, please get in touch with us by emailing SBU.ResourcingTeam@Wales.nhs.uk. We can add you to our interest list and get in contact with you as soon as an advert goes live.  

Overseas nurses: If you are a qualified nurse overseas and would like to come and work with us, you must be OSCE (Objective Structured Clinical Examination) ready. If you are, contact our recruitment matron melanie.joseph@wales.nhs.uk 

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