Arrhythmia Nurse Specialist | Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Sutton-in-Ashfield; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Sutton-in-Ashfield is seeking a highly motivated Arrhythmia Nurse Specialist to provide expert clinical leadership and specialist nursing care. This role involves working with a multi-disciplinary team in managing patients with cardiac arrhythmias, ensuring high-quality care and compliance with NMC standards. Ideal candidates should have a registered nurse qualification and relevant experience. Competitive benefits and opportunities for professional development are offered.

Benefits

Opportunities for professional development

Supportive work environment

Competitive benefits

Qualifications

• Extensive knowledge of cardiac arrhythmias is essential.
• NMC registration required.
• Experience in a similar clinical setting preferred.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert nursing care for patients with cardiac arrhythmias.
• Delegate and educate junior team members.
• Adhere to NMC codes of conduct.
• Participate in continuing professional development.

Skills

Expert clinical leadership

Autonomous patient care

Clinical innovation

Team collaboration

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Nurse Independent Prescriber qualification

Job description

Are you ready to take your nursing career to the next level?

We are excited to offer an outstanding opportunity for a highly motivated Arrhythmia Nurse Specialist to join our progressive and supportive cardiac services team. This role is central to the delivery of a high-quality, patient-centred cardiac arrhythmia management service, spanning both acute hospital care and community-based settings.

As a key member of our multi-disciplinary team, you will provide expert clinical leadership and specialist nursing care to patients with a range of cardiac arrhythmias. You will work autonomously and collaboratively to ensure timely assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, while supporting patients and their families throughout their care journey.

This is a dynamic and rewarding role that offers the chance to make a real difference in the lives of patients with complex cardiac needs. You’ll be supported by a team that values innovation, compassion, and professional development, with opportunities to grow your expertise and influence service delivery at a strategic level.
• You will share responsibility with your fellow Nurse Specialists to delegate, support and educate the junior members of the team.
• Ensure NMC codes of conduct are adhered to.
• To ensure that all local and national HR policies, procedures and guidelines are adhered to and report any failure to do so appropriately.
• To undertake the role of Nurse Independent Prescriber within the Arrythmia service and in line with Trust policy, professional regulatory and national guidance.
• To maintain competency in prescribing according to level of prescribing qualification and participate in regular continuing professional development in relation to the role.
• To prescribe in accordance with the Trust’s Medicine code ,its Non -Medical Prescribing Policy and other local and national prescribing guidance.
• To prescribe within the limits of their individual competencies and approved Scope of practice/Formulary.
• To be a highly skilled practitioner, leading innovation and demonstrating clinical expertise. The post holder will act as a resource and advisor in their area of expertise to colleagues in
other wards and departments through the Trust

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Please see attached job description and person specification for full information on role and responsibilities.


This advert closes on Thursday 14 Aug 2025