Working with colleagues across the three hospital sites of the Trust and in the Brent and Harrow communities, this post is focused on the implementation, delivery and development of a cardiac rehabilitation service (CRS). The aim of this post is to improve the care of patients with heart disease admitted to London Northwest Healthcare NHS Trust and after discharge to the Brent and Harrow communities.

The post holder will work with the CRS nurse lead enabling:

• Identification and recruitment of appropriate patients into the CRS
• Counselling and education
• Designing personalised cardiac rehabilitation programmes for patients
• Follow up and support after discharge using the Heart Manual and other local resources
• Liaising and working with community colleagues

You will work autonomously assessing and managing patients in your caseload ensuring this reflects the core components of the Clinical Nurse Specialist role, which involves high levels of clinical decision making and advanced clinical practice. With training you will be expected to provide detailed advice to other specialties, advising the multidisciplinary team on the appropriate management of patient undergoing cardiac rehabilitation.

Main duties of the job

• Provision of specialist, high quality, expert nursing care regarding the management and support for patients on the cardiac rehabilitation pathway
• Act as a resource for medical and nursing colleagues within the primary and secondary care setting
• To participate in service improvement initiatives and service audits
• To contribute to the implementation of the British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation guidelines and other national guidelines.

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A& E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Working with colleagues across the three hospital sites of the Trust and in the Brent and Harrow communities, this post is focused on the implementation, delivery and development of a cardiac rehabilitation service (CRS). The aim of this post is to improve the care of patients with heart disease admitted to London Northwest Healthcare NHS Trust and after discharge to the Brent and Harrow communities.

The post holder will work with the CRS nurse lead enabling:

• Identification and recruitment of appropriate patients into the CRS
• Counselling and education
• Designing personalised cardiac rehabilitation programmes for patients
• Follow up and support after discharge using the Heart Manual and other local resources
• Liaising and working with community colleagues

You will work autonomously assessing and managing patients in your caseload ensuring this reflects the core components of the Clinical Nurse Specialist role, which involves high levels of clinical decision making and advanced clinical practice. With training you will be expected to provide detailed advice to other specialties, advising the multidisciplinary team on the appropriate management of patient undergoing cardiac rehabilitation.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Provision of specialist, high quality, expert nursing care regarding the management and support for patients on the cardiac rehabilitation pathway
• Act as a resource for medical and nursing colleagues within the primary and secondary care setting
• To participate in service improvement initiatives and service audit
• To contribute to the implementation of the British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation guidelines and other national guidelines.

MAIN DUTIES

Clinical

• Perform comprehensive assessment of patients nursing needs putting quality at the heart of practice by delivering evidence based individualized and personalised care
• Demonstrate advanced nursing and clinical assessment skills for cardiac patients
• Demonstrate advanced nursing skills in initiating cardiac rehabilitation pathways and determining appropriate referral.
• Monitor investigation results, initiating further assessment/review as required.
• Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records.
• Act as a key worker for patients undergoing cardiac rehabilitation, working to coordinate care and provide accessible support for patients and carers.
• Provide specialist advice at MDT meetings
• Use advanced communication skills to identify and meet patients and carers needs.
• Ensure systems are in place to ensure that the standards of nursing care delivered are safe, effective and compassionate to every patient, every time.
• Actively work with other health care professionals to provide a seamless and coordinated patient care across primary, secondary and tertiary care interface to maximise patient satisfaction and outcomes.

Managerial / Leadership

• Provide specialist, expert clinical knowledge to clinical colleagues, patients and carers/relatives following appropriate training
• To work autonomously in planning and organising own workload in coordination with the cardiac rehabilitation nurse lead and other colleagues
• Participate in the collection, collation and reporting of activity data to the team lead.
• Deputise in the absence of senior cardiac rehabilitation nurse lead
• Participate in the development and updating of protocols, operational policy and work plan
• Participate in ensuring that national standards and core components for cardiovascular disease prevention and rehabilitation are adhered to through the collaboration with the cardiology team and the community services
• Ensure the effective and efficient use of physical and financial resources.

Education

• Act as a role model/ preceptor and mentor to others, demonstrating high standards of care and providing clinical leadership and education regarding the care and support of patients affected by heart disease
• To ensure ones own clinical knowledge is updated and reflective of leading edge practice to ensure evidence based decision making and practice.
• Participate in developing and delivering and evaluating an education programme across the Trust

Service Improvement

• Continually evaluate the changing needs of the role and contribute in making recommendations for ongoing development of the service.
• Participate in the development and management of setting up outpatient clinics to cater for this cohort of patients as appropriate

Research and Audit

• Ensure nursing practice is evidence based and adhere to standards of practice.
• Participate in local and national audits
• Work with other members of the cardiology team to produce appropriate metrics to monitor implementation of the CRS
• Participate and promote research initiatives in specialists sphere of work.
• Collate and interpret research and audits to provide evidence of productively, outcomes and quality. Use data to support operational policy, annual reports and work plan as appropriate.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• First level nursing registration
• Post registration qualification in cardiac nursing
• Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable

• Non medical prescribing qualification
• Advanced assessment skills
• Working towards a Masters level qualification

Experience

Essential

• Recent nursing on an acute cardiology ward
• Experience of cardiac rehabilitation

Previous cardiology nursing experience

Essential

• Recent nursing on an acute cardiology ward
• Knowledge of cardiac rehabilitation and health promotion

Desirable

• Experience of cardiac rehabilitation
• Experience of health promotion

Employer details

Employer name

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Northwick Park Hospital, Ealing Hospital, Brent and Harrow

Watford Road,

London

HA1 3UJ

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