Advanced Practitioner - Cardiology

Imperial College Healthcare NHS; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing programs

Staff recognition scheme

Cycle to Work scheme

Car lease schemes

Season ticket loan

Onsite leisure facilities

Job summary

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking an Advanced Practitioner to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care across Cardiology and Cardiac Sciences. The role supports autonomous assessment, diagnosis, management and prescribing within a leading specialist cardiac centre.

The AP works with consultants and the MDT, holding the Bed Manager bleep to coordinate admissions and transfers, ensuring safe, efficient pathways from admission to discharge.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with NMC registration or Allied Health Professional with HCPC registration.
• Ability to autonomously assess, diagnose and manage patients across cardiac pathways including admissions, transfers and discharges.
• Prescribe medications within your scope of practice and coordinate care with the MDT.

Responsibilities

• Work autonomously and with the multidisciplinary team to assess, diagnose, treat and manage patients across Cardiology and Cardiac Sciences.
• Hold the Cardiac Bed Manager bleep and coordinate admissions, transfers, repatriations and discharges.
• Manage admissions, transfers, discharges and step-down patients from critical care areas.
• Undertake advanced clinical assessment, request and interpret investigations and facilitate safe and timely discharge.
• Support transfers from referring hospitals and ensure evidence-based patient care throughout admission and follow-up.

Skills

Advanced clinical assessment

Leadership

Communication

Collaborative teamwork

Education

NMC registration (Nurse)

HCPC registration (AHP)

Job description

Join our Advanced Practitioner (AP) team and play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across Cardiology and Cardiac Sciences services. This exciting opportunity is open to both Registered Nurses with NMC registration and Allied Health Professionals with HCPC registration, offering the chance to work at an advanced level of clinical practice within one of the UK's leading specialist cardiac centres. In this role, you will autonomously assess, diagnose and manage patients across a wide range of cardiac pathways, including elective admissions, emergency admissions, transfers from referring hospitals and step-down patients from critical care. You will undertake advanced clinical assessment, formulate management plans, request and interpret diagnostic investigations, and prescribe medications within your scope of practice. Working closely with consultants and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will support patients throughout their admission, intervention and discharge, ensuring delivery of evidence-based care and excellent patient outcomes. The role is also central to the operational management of Cardiac Services. You will hold the Cardiac Bed Manager Bleep, coordinating admissions, transfers, repatriations and discharges across Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Services. Your advanced communication, leadership and clinical reasoning skills will be essential in maintaining safe and effective patient pathways across the service.

• Work autonomously and collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team to assess, diagnose, treat and manage patients across Cardiology and Cardiac Sciences services.
• The post holder will hold the Bed Manager bleep, coordinating patient flow across Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Services. This includes facilitating timely admissions, transfers, repatriations and discharges, ensuring effective utilisation of specialist cardiac beds, and working closely with site teams, consultants, referring hospitals and multidisciplinary colleagues to optimise capacity and support safe, efficient patient care pathways
• The post holder will be responsible for managing admissions, transfers, discharges and step-down patients from critical care areas.
• They will undertake advanced clinical assessment, request and interpret investigations, prescribe medications, formulate treatment plans and facilitate safe and timely discharge.
• The role is pivotal in maintaining patient flow across the cardiac pathway, supporting transfers from referring hospitals and ensuring patients receive high-quality, evidence-based care throughout their admission and follow-up.
  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 sustainabilityClimate 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.