Cardiff and Vale UHB announces Executive Nurse Director
Cardiff and Vale University Health Board has appointed Jason Roberts to the position of Executive Nurse Director.
Jason takes the post following a recent period as the Interim Executive Nurse Director and previously Deputy Executive Nurse Director which he held since 2018.
Jason has over 30 years of nursing experience since registering as an adult nurse in 1993. Jason has worked in a number of Health Boards, where he consolidated his clinical career in Accident and Emergency Medicine, before holding a number of senior nursing posts across a diverse range of specialities before joining Cardiff and Vale UHB in 2016 as Director of Nursing for Medicine Clinical Board.
Jason has a track record for high quality compassionate leadership and brings with him a breadth and depth of clinical and nursing and multi-professional leadership experience in various roles across the NHS in South Wales. He is committed to ensuring patients receive a positive experience and great outcomes and plays a key role in a number of pieces of national work driving improvement in standards of care.
Jason said “I am delighted to be taking up the Executive Nurse Director post and this incredible opportunity to work with colleagues to lead a fantastic nursing workforce. I look forward to continuing to develop our nursing teams and quality and safety processes so we can ensure we are providing an excellent experience to patients.
“It has been a challenging few years and I am pleased to be working with committed and dedicated colleagues to shape our nursing resource and priorities.”
Suzanne Rankin, Chief Executive at Cardiff and Vale UHB said “Jason has been with the Health Board for 6 years and brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the role as well as having developed great relationships with colleagues, stakeholders and partners. Following a rigorous and competitive selection process where Jason really demonstrated his passion and aptitude for the role I am delighted that Jason will be joining the executive team in the substantive role. I know Jason will lead nursing and midwifery with energy and vision and work hard with executive colleagues and others to ensure patients and the team have a great experience of being cared and treated by the UHB as well as positive experience. Many congratulations Jason and I look forward to working alongside you into the future.”