Senior Nurse Manager- Urgent and Emergency Care

Job overview

Fixed Term/Secondment vacancy for 6 months until  31/12/2026 to meet the needs of the service.

If you are a Hywel Dda University Health Board employee and are applying for this post as a secondment, agreement for the secondment is needed from your current manager prior to application.

Are you an experienced senior nurse leader ready to operate at system level and shape how urgent and emergency care is delivered across acute and community settings?

Do you want to lead a genuinely transformational “shift left” approach that is redefining urgent and emergency care across Ceredigion, improving flow, quality, and patient experience while reducing avoidable admissions?

We are seeking a Senior Nurse Manager for Urgent and Emergency Care to provide clinical and operational leadership across our integrated urgent care system who is:

• Confident operating across complex systems and organisational boundaries
• Skilled in managing risk, quality and performance in high-pressure environments
• Energised by service transformation and innovation
• Passionate about urgent care reform, patient flow and care closer to home
• Committed to leading compassionately and developing people, teams and future nursing leaders

What we Offer?

• A progressive, supportive senior leadership team
• Real influence over system-wide urgent care transformation
• Opportunities to shape and lead innovative models of care
• Strong professional support, peer networks and development opportunities
• A role with genuine strategic and operational impact across the county

Main duties of the job

As Senior Nurse Manager, you will:

• Provide visible, compassionate and credible nursing leadership across urgent and emergency care services
• Lead on quality, safety and experience, ensuring robust governance and learning cultures
• Shape and support workforce models, including advanced practice, skill mix and new roles
• Drive admission avoidance and flow improvement, aligned to system priorities
• Support escalation, resilience and recovery planning across acute and community settings
• Work collaboratively with medical, operational and system leaders to deliver integrated care

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Senior Nurse Manager (Urgent and Emergency Care) provides professional, clinical and operational leadership for nursing services within Urgent and Emergency Care. The post holder is accountable for nursing standards, workforce leadership, quality, safety, patient experience and service improvement across their defined area of responsibility.

This is a senior autonomous leadership role, requiring the post holder to act as a credible, visible and accessible nursing leader, capable of providing highly specialised advice, managing clinical risk, and ensuring delivery of safe, effective and high‑quality urgent and emergency care services.

Interviews to be held on  15/5/2026

You will be able to find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting documents.

The Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences.  In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers.

The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post. If you do not meet the Welsh Language requirements specified, the Health Board offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal desirable requirements during the course of your employment with us.