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Job summary

Main area
Cardiac Rehabilitation
Grade
Band 5
Contract
1 year (1 year fixed term post covering maternity leave)
Hours
Part time - 30 hours per week (4 x 7.5 hour shifts - Monday to Friday - variable due to clinical demand)
Job ref
229-MED-7467481
Employer
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
WYE VALLEY TRUST NHS
Town
Hereford
Salary
£31,049 - £37,796 pa pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
09/10/2025 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Staff Nurse in Cardiac Rehabilitation

Band 5

 

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity to join our Cardiac Rehabilitation Team has arisen  for a band 5 staff nurse, to cover maternity leave, for a 1 year fixed term  post.

Under the direct supervision of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Clinical Nurse Specialist and Senior Nurses within the team, you will delivery a high quality service to people with coronary heart disease.  

You should have a good understanding of coronary heart disease,  including myocardial infarction, angina, coronary angioplasty, coronary bypass surgery and valve surgery.

You will work closely with cardiac rehabilitation, heart failure cardiac rehabilitation, cardiology clinical nurse specialists and cardiology consultants.  

You will provide inpatient and outpatient assessment to people with coronary heart disease,  identifying  risk factors for health behaviour change, whilst working to national, local and trust guidelines.  

 

 

Main duties of the job

  • Working within cardiac rehabilitation, delivery evidence based practice to people with coronary heart disease.
  • To assess people diagnosed as inpatients with coronary heart disease under cardiac rehabilitation remit, providing education and risk factor modification advice
  • To provide advice and education for safe self-management of medicines
  • To provide education and advice on exercise and activity post coronary heart disease events
  • Under supervision from senior members of the team, participate in the exercise & education sessions within cardiac rehabilitation
  • To work independently, within their own limitations of experience and competence

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.

Person specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse
  • Relevant nursing degree
Desirable criteria
  • Counselling qualification
  • Teaching qualification
  • Accredited cardiology/BACPR qualification or willingness to complete
  • ILS course or willingness to complete

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential criteria
  • Communicates well with patients, carers and professional colleagues often with complex information or situations
  • Good knowledge of government initiatives or equivalent
Desirable criteria
  • Development of leadership skills

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Recent cardiology experience in an acute or community setting
  • Participation in audit/research evidence into practice

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerAge positiveInvestors in People: GoldArmed Forces Covenant (Silver Award)Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employercorporate covenantNHS Rainbow badge

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Katherine Lipscomb
Job title
Clinical Nurse Specialist Cardiac Rehabilitation
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01432 364205
Additional information

Please contact Katherine Lipscomb for further information, an informal chat or to arrange a visit.   Variable work days Monday to Friday.   

Alternatively ask for Angela Havard, same contact number or email address [email protected]