County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest integrated care providers in England, serving a population of around 600,000 people. We are a high performing organisation with a track record of success. The Community CHD & HF service provide care to cardiac patients across the county. This substantive Band 7 post offers an exciting opportunity for a suitably qualified and experienced Nurse to work within the Specialist Community Cardiology team.

The post covers core hours of 09:00-17:00h The service runs Monday to Friday although there may be provision to moving to 7 day working in the future.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will provide a consistent high quality specialist nursing care for patients and families. With significant post registration experience including recent experience in cardiac care. You will need to demonstrate excellent communication and leadership skills and will need to be committed to developing practice. Working collaboratively as part of a team and building effective relationships with colleagues, you must also be able to work on your own initiative.

About us

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We provide hospital services from two acute sites - Darlington Memorial Hospital and University Hospital of North Durham. We have a centre for planned care in Bishop Auckland and provide care from community hospitals in Chester-le-Street, Shotley Bridge, Barnard Castle, Sedgefield and Weardale as well as over 80 other community based settings and providing care in patients' homes.

At County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust our aim is to always deliver excellent care with compassion to deliver the highest quality of care our patients deserve. We value the personal skills, experiences and qualities that individuals bring to the Trust creating an inclusive working environment to attract talented people who feel motivated, involved and able to influence the future direction of our services.

We particularly welcome applications from disabled and Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME and disabled people are currently under-represented

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Job description

Job responsibilities

The role of the Advanced Nurse Specialist Cardiology requires a suitably qualified and experienced nurse to be able to utilise and expand their knowledge of cardiac nursing care and be able to offer high quality patient centred care, whilst suporting their peers and colleagues. Be able to have a positive impact on care and confidently deal with difficult and complex situations with sensitivity and compassion. Be confident and influence change.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Significant post registration experience some of which must be in cardiology

Desirable

• Experience of cardiac rehabilitation
• Experience of health improvement/promotion
• Audit experience

Special Requirements

Essential

• Able to travel across Trust sites to meet the requirements of the post
• Well presented application
• Assertive and confident yet approachable and supportive manner
• Professionally credible
• Flexibility in approach to work and in range of duties/ hours of work
• Demonstrates initiative and enthusiasm
• Diplomatic
• Calm and objective
• Self Motivated
• Recognition of own limitations

Statutory Registration

Essential

• Registered health professional registered with the NMC

Special Skills & Knowledge

Essential

• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Good organisational and facilitation skills
• Ability to work independently
• Knowledge of clinical governance
• IT literate
• Ability to be reflective

Qualifications

Essential

• Evidence of professional knowledge acquired through Masters degree or equivalent level of demonstrable professional knowledge/experience
• Supplemented by evidence of post graduate diploma specialist training, experience, short courses plus further specialist training
• Advanced clinical skills course
• Post basic cardiology qualification
• Accredited heart failure course (or working towards)
• Recognised Teaching qualification
• Registered Mentor
• Non-Medical Prescribing

Desirable

• Accredited cardiology or heart failure course
• Physical assessment skills course
• Independent prescribing course and prescribing experience
• Accredited teaching qualification (or working towards).

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .

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

County Durham & Darlington NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The Greenhouse

Stanley

County Durham

DH9 7XN

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C9439-23-0172