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Job summary

Main area
Cardiology
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Fixed term: 12 months (minimum 12 months)
Hours
  • Full time
  • Flexible working
37.5 hours per week (variable hours)
Job ref
319-6265773SO
Employer
Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Wansbeck General Hospital
Town
Ashington
Salary
£35,392 - £42,618 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/05/2024 23:59

Employer heading

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust logo

Cardiology Specialist Nurse

NHS AfC: Band 6

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

  • Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
  • Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
  • A range of flexible working opportunities
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
  • Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
  • On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
  • Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy. 

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

 

 

Job overview

  • Provide a comprehensive specialist clinical nursing service within Cardiology medicine, with an emphasis on patient centered care.
  • Take a role in the development and service delivery in own specialist area including developing protocols and audits whilst supporting colleagues in their specialism.
  • Work in an interdisciplinary manner, to provide high quality care for cardiology patients, both as inpatients and outpatients.
  • Provide highly specialist training and education in cardiology medicine to doctors, nurses, allied healthcare professionals and students.
  • Participate in audit / research to evaluate practice and participate in local and national audit / research projects.
  • To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries

Main duties of the job

  • Responsible to the Lead Cardiology Specialist Nurse.
  • In collaboration with medical and technical teams, participate in the organisation, control and delivery of treatment and associated care within specialist nurse led cardiology services.
  • Manage Cardiology Specialist Nurse led services, e g. Heart Failure, Post Myocardial Infarction, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Post Revascularisation, Pre-assement Clinics and Cardioversion service and Chest Pain Clinic.
  • Assist with the provision of Transoesophageal Echocardiography, Stress ECHO, Cath Lab service

Working for our organisation

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022).  Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

  • Responsible to the Lead Cardiology Specialist Nurse.
  • In collaboration with medical and technical teams, participate in the organisation, control and delivery of treatment and associated care within specialist nurse led cardiology services.
  • Manage Cardiology Specialist Nurse led services, e g. Heart Failure, Post Myocardial Infarction, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Post Revascularisation, Pre-assement Clinics and Cardioversion service and Chest Pain Clinic.
  • Assist with the provision of Transoesophageal Echocardiography, Stress ECHO, Cath Lab service

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • 1st level Registered Nurse
  • Degree in nursing / health studies or equivalent experience/training.
  • Mentorship qualification
Desirable criteria
  • Clinical skills course and/or advanced history taking skills
  • Counselling course
  • Heart Failure Course (12 month course)
  • Registered non-medical prescriber
  • British Association for cardiac rehabilitation Exercise Course
  • ECDL

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident employerCare quality commission - OutstandingStonewall equality policy. Equality and justice for lesbians, gay men, bisexual and trans people.Better Health at Work Award - Maintaining ExcellenceHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

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
John Eastland
Job title
Lead Cardiology Nurse
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01670529388