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Cardiac Specialist Nurse

Employer
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
Location
Stevenage
Salary
£46,148 to £52,809 per annum
Closing date
23 Oct 2024
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We are recruiting for a Cardiac Specialist Nurse who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a team of dynamic cardiac specialist nurses for 12 months as maternity cover. You will have experience in cardiology to ensure patient-centred clinical care. This will encompass the skills of assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice within Cardiology, focusing mainly on the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of patients in clinics and our SDEC service.

You will support a new way of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient focused service and will ensure the safe referral and discharge of patients. There will be a requirement to provide cross cover within the specialist nursing team.

The role will require working at different sites across East & North Herts NHS Trust. The cardiology department compromises of 2 Cath Labs and a radial lounge. We do a variety of procedures such as coronary angiography, PCIs, providing 24/7 PPCI cover, pacemakers, cardioversions, stress echocardiograms, trans-oesophageal echoes, and complex imaging. There is a 22 bedded acute cardiac unit.

Our Values are Include, Respect and Improve. It is important that you understand and refer to our values during your recruitment process and beyond!

Main duties of the job

The Cardiac Specialist Nurse is a recognised expert in the speciality, responsible for assessing, developing, and implementing specialist nursing care programmes and undertaking specialist nursing procedures Responsible for providing specialist advice and support to, and liaising with, other staff. This includes the provision of specialist education and training for other staff and students responsible for implementing a clearly defined integrated approach to patient care encompassing new treatments and evidence-based care. You will be required to undertake research and lead clinical audits in own specialist area.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:
  • The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
  • New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
  • Hertford County, Hertford
  • Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential

  • Registered Nurse educated to Degree level or willingness to undertake
  • Post registration qualification in speciality
  • Evidence of continuous professional development.
  • Teaching qualification
  • Advanced communication skills/counselling qualification or willingness to undertake


Desirable

  • Nurse Independent Prescriber
  • Research Module
  • Master's Degree
  • Advanced clinical assessment


Previous Experience

Essential

  • Significant relevant experience in the Specialty and ability to demonstrate expert nursing skills
  • Accept personal accountability for own practice
  • Experience of formal/informal teaching
  • Experience of initiating change
  • Understanding evidence-based practice
  • Experience of Clinical Governance
  • Understanding of patient pathways and it's complexities and how to support patient through this


Skills

Essential

  • Good verbal and written communication skills
  • Capable of working as an integral member of a small team
  • Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due to workload and colleague's needs
  • Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients
  • Leadership skills
  • Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload effective timemanagement
  • Effective interpersonal skills
  • Ability to lead developments in practice
  • Commitment to multi-disciplinary working
  • Demonstrate analytical and judgmental skills
  • Ability to quickly appraise situation and act accordingly


Desirable

  • Advanced Communication Skills


Knowledge

Essential

  • Demonstrate expertise in the full range of skills within cardiology
  • Wide knowledge of appropriate general cardiac conditions and their management.


Employer details

Employer name

East and North Herts NHS Trust

Address

Lister Hospital

Coreys Mill Lane

Stevenage

SG1 4AB

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361-6531036-B

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