Job summary

  • 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

About us

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!

Date posted

28 February 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£33,706 to £40,588 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

319-5049339BL

Job locations

Wansbeck General Hospital

Ashington

NE63 9JJ

Job description

Job 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

Job description

Job 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

  • 1st level Registered Nurse
  • Degree in nursing / health studies or equivalent experience/training.
  • Mentorship qualification

Desirable

  • 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
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • 1st level Registered Nurse
  • Degree in nursing / health studies or equivalent experience/training.
  • Mentorship qualification

Desirable

  • 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

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).