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My name is Ali and, as Lead Nurse for Pre-op Cardiac surgery , I am wondering if you are the right person to join our team of Band 7 Pre-operative Cardiac Surgery Care Practitioners.

Our service at St George's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London, is a specialist tertiary referral centre for all types of adult cardiac surgery and serves a population of around 3 million, covering a wide geographical area including South West London and the surrounding areas of Surrey and Sussex. We perform around 1000 operations a year.

Main duties of the job

Sussex. We perform around 1000 operations a year.

I am hoping you are a Cardiac Surgery Nurse, experienced in Pre-Assessment and confident about integrating this role with case managing our patients efficiently and effectively through to cardiac surgery. Under the Lead Nurse, you would be working as a team with the other Pre-operative Cardiac Surgery Care Practitioners and with our Patient Pathway and MDT Co-ordinators.

If you are a team player with great individual clinical and organisational skills, looking for a new challenge and interested in growing our service in a new direction, then I want to hear from you.

About us

The post holder is expected to have a clear understanding of how this post contributes to the achievement of the Trust vision of

A thriving Foundation Trust at the heart of an integrated healthcare system. One that delivers improved patient care at a community, hospital and specialist setting, supported by a unique and nationally recognised programme of research, education and employee engagement.

We expect all our staff to share the values that are important to the Trust, being Excellent, Kind, Responsible & Respectful, and behave in a way that reflects these.

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to safeguarding children and vulnerable adults and expects that all staff will share in this commitment. The Trust is clear that all staff have a responsibility to be aware of children and adult safeguarding policies and procedures and that each member of staff, clinical and non-clinical, will attend child or adult safeguarding training that is provided at an appropriate level to suit their role. The Trust has the additional expectation that all staff will be able to identify concerns and know what action to take.

Job description

Job responsibilities

A full job description outlining all the job roles is attached, to discuss this please feel free to contact us

Person Specification

Qualification & training

Essential

• RN
• Recognised post graduate cardiac nursing course

Desirable

• Physical assessment course & experience

Knowledge & Skills

Essential

• Demonstrate good understanding of pre operative processes and needs of patients.
• Can work at senior level, able to confidently discuss referrals and patient plans with senior medical staff.
• Good organisational skills

Desirable

• Competent in physical examination

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

St George's Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

St George's Hospital

Blackshaw Road,

London

SW17 0QT

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