Advanced Practitioner - Cardiology

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Flexible working

Wellbeing

Cycle to Work

Season ticket loan

Car lease schemes

Onsite leisure facilities

Job summary

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust in London is recruiting an Advanced Practitioner to deliver patient-centered care across Cardiology and Cardiac Sciences. You will autonomously assess, diagnose and manage a wide range of cardiac patients, within the scope of practice for an NMC-registered or HCPC-registered professional.

Working with consultants and the multidisciplinary team, you will support admissions, transfers and discharges, coordinate bed management, and drive evidence-based care

Qualifications

• Current professional registration with NMC (Nursing) or HCPC (Allied Health Professional).
• Advanced or Intermediate Life Support Provider.
• Postgraduate Level 6+ education in a relevant subject.
• Independent Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification.
• Master's degree in Advanced Practice or working towards.
• Degree relevant to professional registration.
• Relevant post-registration Cardiology/Cardiac Sciences/Acute Care qualification.
• Teaching and Assessing Qualification.

Responsibilities

• Assess, diagnose and manage patients across Cardiology/Cardiac Sciences.
• Request and interpret investigations and prescribe medications.
• Coordinate admissions, transfers, repatriations and discharges to optimise bed use.
• Support patient pathways and discharge planning across services.
• Act as Bed Manager and work with multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, efficient care.

Skills

Advanced clinical assessment

Diagnostic reasoning

Leadership

Communication

Education

Accredited postgraduate Level 6 education (Physical Assessment/Clinical Examination)

Master's degree in Advanced Practice

Independent Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification

Degree relevant to professional registration

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.

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.

About us

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.

Job 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.

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.