Job overview

Are you ready to take the next step in your cardiology nursing career? We are offering an exciting part time, permanent opportunity for a band 6 senior staff nurse to join A7 and lead by example in our busy and rewarding unit. 

A7 is a 25 bedded cardiology ward incorporating a 5 bedded CCU (level 2 care) and 20 step down beds with cardiac monitoring and telemetry. We care for patients admitted from the Heart Assessment Centre, London Ambulance Service, tertiary referrals and ED, with conditions including acute myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, pulmonary hypertension, and post procedural cases such as TAVI and MitraClip. We also support step downs from ITU requiring ongoing specialist cardiology management.

As a Senior Staff Nurse, you will:

• Provide strong clinical leadership, supporting and inspiring junior colleagues.
• Ensure safe, high quality, evidence based patient care.
• Play a key role in service improvement, staff development, and patient experience.
• Act as a clinical role model in a fast paced, collaborative environment

We’re looking for someone who:

• Has substantial experience in cardiac or acute care.
• Demonstrates excellent communication, organisational and leadership skills.
• Is committed to developing both their own practice and the team around them

Main duties of the job

• Providing high quality, effective, individualised nursing care to patients by assessing their needs and developing, implementing and evaluating care plans without supervision.  
• The post holder will be expected to liaise appropriately with all key members of the multi-disciplinary team and service users related to the speciality.  
• To be responsible for all aspects of patient care including the assessment, planning, delivery and evaluation of direct patient care with supervision from senior staff.  
• To support the ward manager to monitor the safety and quality of care for patients. Maintaining accurate clinical observations of patients, utilising nursing skills and competencies.  
• To manage a group of staff nurse and healthcare support workers within their shifts, assign delegated tasks and responsibility as appropriate. Assisting in the teaching and development of nursing team, healthcare support workers and pre-registration students, helping them to achieve their learning outcomes. 
• To ensure the compliance of mandatory training and appraisal requirements for delegated nursing staff and healthcare support workers.   
• To ensure a positive focussed service incorporating patients’ feedback to maintain and improve patient care.  To act as an effective role model promoting excellence through practice. 
• To resume responsibility of bed management via bed bleep out of hours (overnight) and ensuring smooth patient flow through the service. 

Working for our organisation

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.  

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career. Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme.  Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities. 

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly,  part time or job share.  Please talk to  us at interview. 

Environmental sustainability
Climate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people’s health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan.