Cardiology SDEC Specialist Nurse - #135646

Job Overview

We are recruiting for a Band 6 Cardiology SDEC Specialist Nurse.

The post holder will work to develop improved diagnostic, referral and treatment pathways for ACS patients across the care continuum from primary to tertiary care, engaging with healthcare professionals across the network area.

The post holder will ensure that the service offered is convenient and accessible to patients. They will assist in ensuring that patients receive timely and streamlined care as well as contributing to reducing waiting times, waiting lists for treatment and inappropriate admissions to acute beds.

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical leadership for a defined group of patients. You will be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating safe and high quality patient care.

Target patient groups will include those who have experienced or may be at risk of experiencing cardiology health conditions. Those requiring electrophysiology/ablation procedures, implantable loop recorders and planned cardioversion and tilt test, coronary angiography and coronary angioplasty, CABG and valve surgery.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Current First Level Nursing and Midwifery Council Registration or other relevant professional qualification dependent on discipline
• Recognised teaching certificate i.e. ENB 998/730/mentorship
• Advanced Life Support Certificate
• Have post graduate qualification in Clinical assessment skills in medicine.
• Be a nurse precriber or on the course
• Evidence of further education related to arrhythmia management
  
  

Desirable criteria

• MSc in advanced Practice
  
  

Experience

Essential criteria

• Significant experience at Band 6 in Cardiology
• Substantial experience of teaching and supervising of junior staff
• Significant experience within cardiology services
• Relevant experience inrelation to arrhythmia management
  
  

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good time keeping and communication skills
• Teaching skills
• Awareness of current professional nursing issues
• Ability to adapt to change within the working environment
  
  

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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