Cangen Iechyd UNSAIN Caerdydd a'r Fro Cardiff & Vale UNISON Health Branch

Welcome to Cardiff and Vale Unison Health Branch website

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Welcome to our branch website.

Cardiff and Vale UNISON Health Branch represents:

All Staff in Cardiff and Vale UHB.

Also staff in Private Care Homes, Health Centres, Clinics etc in South Glamorgan.

Nurses, health care assistants, porters, therapists, maintenance workers, community workers, office workers, technicians, managers, supervisors etc, etc.

NHS & Non NHS Staff

Anyone employed in healthcare basically.

Our branch has members based in Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan and remotely stretching as far as Wrexham in the north and Carmarthen in the west.

UNISON is Britain's biggest union, representing almost 1.3 million people across the UK's public services.

On this site you can:

get help and advice
contact the branch
find out about UNISON membership
check up on branch news and info
connect to other useful websites

UNISON is the largest trade union in the United Kingdom with over 1.3 million members.

The union was formed in 1993 when three public sector trade unions, the National and Local Government Officers association(NALGO), the National Union of Public Employees (NUPE) and the Confederation of Health Service Employees (COHSE) merged.

IF YOU'VE GOT A PROBLEM LET US KNOW, we can sort out most problems if we know about them!

Tell us about you.

Cardiff & Vale UNISON Health Branch

We have members in South East Wales, where the branch is based, and also, as far spread as North and West Wales, but we don't know about each other. We need contact with all our members to forge strong links. The more we know about you, the better we can support you.

Remember we are all together in UNISON. You might be a lone member in the extremities of the branch, but YOU ARE NOT ALONE! There is a mighty branch supporting you.

CARDIFF & VALE UNISON HEALTH BRANCH will represent our members wherever they are. If necessary our representatives will travel across Wales to look after you.

We are building a very strong branch and we want you to be a big part in it. Use our CONTACT US page to drop us a line; Tell us who you are? , where you work?, what you do and any problems you have? Send us photos and we can post them in our gallery.

WE NEED REPRESENTATIVES EVERYWHERE WE HAVE MEMBERS!

If you're interested in becoming a representative: Do something about it! CONTACT US.

A representative for the branch can be as simple as operating a mailbox or as complex as being an officer of the branch. Do as much as you can. If we all do a little etc. etc.

THE LEAST YOU CAN DO IS TELL EVERYONE ABOUT THIS WEBSITE

CARDIFF & VALE HEALTH BRANCH

ELECTION RESULTS 2023

1	Branch Chairperson	Dawn Ward
2	Vice Chairperson	Bill Salter
3	Branch Secretary	Mike Jones
4	Assistant Branch Sec (3)	Julia Davies Mathew Thomas
5	Treasurer	Roisin Kirby
6	Assistant Treasurer	Rachel Lloyd-Jones
7	Black Members Officer	Roisin Kirby
8	Communications Officer	Vacant
9	Disability Officer	Abigail Bernard
10	Education Co-ordinator	Madeleine Smith
11	Equality Officer	Dawn Ward
12	Green / Environmental Officer	Madeleine Smith
13	Health & Safety Officer	Bill Salter
14) 15) 16)	H&S Advisors (3)	Janice Aspinall Andrew Palmer Andrew Pritchard
17	International Officer	Cyrille Legras
18	LGBT Officer	Helen Anderson
19	Membership Services Officer	Mathew Thomas
20	Recruitment Officer	VACANT
21	Retired Members Officer	Elected within Self Organised Group
22	ULR Learning Co-ordinator	Cyrille Legras
23	Women’s Officer	Lorna McCourt
24	Welfare Officer	Bill Salter
25	Youth Officer	VACANT

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UNISON and Healthcare

HHS together

UNISON is the UK's largest healthcare trade union - over 400,000 people who work in the NHS and for private contractors providing NHS services are UNISON members.

Our health members are nurses, student nurses, midwives, health visitors, healthcare assistants, paramedics, cleaners, porters, catering staff, medical secretaries, clerical and admin staff and scientific and technical staff.

And that's not all of us!

UNISON is a powerful voice for working people in the United Kingdom. We have over 1.3 million members working in public services, the community and voluntary sector and for private companies.

Looking after people at work

We represent our members in many ways, offering help and advice at work, raising your professional/local concerns or by highlighting issues that will affect all health workers at a national level. We work together to make sure our members' concerns are heard - whether itis about pay, health and safety, discrimination or the future of our NHS.

Looking after the NHS

But there is more to UNISON than looking after people at work. We care passionately about the future of the NHS as a publicly funded service that is free at the point of delivery. This makes campaigning to stop the increasing involvement of the private sector in the provision of health care services a priority for us.