Advanced Practitioner - Cardiology

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing

Staff recognition

Cycle to Work

Car lease schemes

Season ticket loan

Onsite leisure facilities

Job summary

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking an Advanced Practitioner to deliver patient-centred care across Cardiology and Cardiac Sciences, working with Registered Nurses (NMC) or HCPC registered Allied Health Professionals.

You will autonomously assess, diagnose, manage a wide range of cardiac pathways, prescribe medications within your scope, and support bed management and patient flow across Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Services.

Qualifications

• Open to Registered Nurses with NMC registration or Allied Health Professionals with HCPC registration.
• Advanced/Intermediate Life Support Provider required.
• Postgraduate Level 6+ education in a relevant subject is preferred.
• Independent Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification desirable.
• Master’s in Advanced Practice or working towards it.
• Relevant post-registration qualification in Cardiology or Acute Care.

Responsibilities

• Assess, diagnose, and manage patients across Cardiology and Cardiac Sciences.
• Coordinate admissions, transfers and discharges to optimise bed usage.
• Provide advanced clinical assessment, investigations, and treatment planning.

Skills

Advanced clinical practice

Clinical assessment

Prescribing within scope

Education

NMC registration

HCPC registration

Job description

Main area Cardiology Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (23 hours per week for part time contract) Job ref 290-WCCS-2701

Site 0_Cardiothoracic Surgery Mgmnt Town London Salary £58,133 - £65,261 pa inclusive Salary period Yearly Closing 30/09/2026 23:59

Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:

Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.

With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.

We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.

We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.

With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

Job overview

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.

Main duties of the job

• 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.

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.

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 .

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

• Current professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a Registered Nurse or the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as an Allied Health Professional.
• Advanced or Intermediate Life Support Provider
• Evidence of accredited postgraduate Level 6 or above education in a relevant subject (e.g. Physical Assessment, Clinical Examination, Clinical Reasoning).
• Independent Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification.
• Master’s degree in Advanced Practice (or working towards completion).
• Degree relevant to professional registration.
• Relevant post-registration specialist qualification in Cardiology, Cardiac Sciences or Acute Care.
• Teaching and Assessing Qualification.

Experience

• Recent and significant postregistration experience within Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Acute Medicine or a related speciality.
• Excellent understanding and experience in the recognition and management of cardiac emergencies.
• Experience in the management and treatment of cardiac patients.
• Familiarity with NICE guidance and other relevant cardiac clinical standards.
• Experience of bed management, patient flow coordination, capacity management and operational decisionmaking within acute hospital services.
• Experience of coordinating admissions, transfers, repatriations and discharges across multiple clinical areas to support effective utilisation of inpatient beds and timely patient care.

Skills/knowledge/abilities

• Evidence of applying research and evidence-based practice to clinical care.
• Advanced clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning skills
• Ability to make complex decisions, prioritise workload and work effectively under pressure.
• Awareness of cardiac data collection and reporting requirements.

Right to work

If you need sponsorship to work in the UK, please visit the Home Office website for information on sponsorship and visa status before you fill in your application form. Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on UK Visas and Immigration - GOV.UK

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Vacancy Closing Date

This vacancy may close before the current listed closing date.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.