Senior Nurse Department of Sexual Health

Overview We are seeking an exceptional and motivated senior nurse to join our Sexual Health Service at a pivotal moment of innovation and development. This role offers an exciting opportunity for an experienced professional to provide strategic leadership, drive high standards of clinical practice, and help shape the future direction of an inclusive and responsive service. As Senior Nurse, you will bring expert clinical knowledge, strong professional credibility and a commitment to improving outcomes for diverse populations.

You will lead with confidence and integrity, supporting teams to deliver safe, person-centred, evidence-based care across complex and fast-evolving areas of sexual health. You will play a central role in strengthening pathways, enhancing quality, and fostering effective partnerships across disciplines and sectors. We are looking for a leader who is passionate about reducing health inequalities, advancing innovative models of care, and ensuring that services remain accessible, compassionate and forward-thinking.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who thrives on challenge, values collaboration, and is ready to influence meaningful change at both operational and strategic levels. If you are inspired by a role that combines clinical leadership, service development and the opportunity to make a significant impact on population health, we welcome your application. Responsibilities Provide clinical leadership for nursing within the Directorate/Locality or specific areas of the Directorate/Locality, to meet the corporate agenda for Nursing and Midwifery, supporting the Clinical Director, Lead Nurse and Directorate/Locality Manager in service development, operational management and clinical governance arrangements for the team Provide day to day line management of ward/locality sister/charge nurse to ensure effective monitoring and use of resources and financial management Provide clinical leadership for the continuous professional development of the nursing staff, this includes supporting systems for revalidation and performance management Operationally line manage all nurses/midwives within the Directorate/Locality or specific areas of the Directorate/Locality Contribute to the provision of healthcare to the Health Board’s population, managing, developing and directing the nursing and clinical workforce within the team and ensuring safe, clinically effective, high quality care is delivered to patients by competent professionals Work to develop new models of service delivery in line with Welsh Assembly Government (WG) policies and strategic direction About Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services.

Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving over 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale, we are focused on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.

Our mission is “Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together”, and our vision is that every person’s chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. Our 10-year transformation and improvement strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, is our chance to work collaboratively with the public and our workforce to make our health board more sustainable for the future. Contact for details For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rebecca Stringer Job title: Lead Nurse Health inclusion and Health protection Email: Rebecca.stringer2@wales.nhs.uk #J-18808-Ljbffr