Arrhythmia Specialist Nurse

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust; Slough; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust seeks a motivated Arrhythmia Specialist Nurse to lead in enhancing patient care in cardiology. This Band 7 role focuses on integrated service delivery, clinical leadership, and working collaboratively across healthcare settings. This is an exciting opportunity for individuals aiming to make a significant impact on arrhythmia care.

Qualifications

• Significant experience at Band 6 in Cardiology.
• Substantial experience in teaching and supervising junior staff.
• Relevant experience in relation to arrhythmia management.

Responsibilities

• Clinical leadership for patient care in arrhythmia management.
• Developing integrated care pathways across primary, secondary, and tertiary care.
• Participating in multidisciplinary team meetings and service planning.

Skills

Communication

Teaching skills

Teamwork

Education

Current First Level Nursing and Midwifery Council Registration

Recognised teaching certificate (ENB 998/730/mentorship)

Advanced Life Support Certificate

Post graduate qualification in Clinical assessment skills in medicine

MSc in advanced Practice

Job description

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Job Overview

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Job Overview

The Band 7 Arrhythmia Specialist Nurse plays a pivotal role in the delivery, development, and continuous improvement of high-quality arrhythmia care across the patient pathway—from initial presentation in primary care to specialist interventions in tertiary settings. The post holder will work as a key member of the multidisciplinary cardiology team, with a particular focus on improving diagnostic accuracy, expediting treatment timelines, and streamlining referral processes for patients with arrhythmias and acute coronary syndromes (ACS).

As a senior nurse, you will be responsible for developing, coordinating, and evaluating patient-centred services aimed at improving access and outcomes for individuals with complex cardiac rhythm disturbances. A core responsibility will involve leading efforts to enhance clinical pathways that span the full continuum of care, working in collaboration with GPs, acute clinicians, specialist tertiary centres, and community teams to promote a more integrated and efficient approach to arrhythmia management.

Your role will involve active participation in multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings, case conferences, and service planning forums to ensure that arrhythmia care is fully integrated and responsive to the needs of the population served.

This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and motivated nurse specialist to take a lead role in shaping the future of arrhythmia care at Wexham Park Hospital.

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.

As a Clinician Experienced In Caring For Patients With Arrhythmia, It Is Envisaged That The Post Holder Will Initially Focus On Developing Robust Systems Between Primary, Secondary And Tertiary Care Centres. Areas For Development (dependent On Existing Services/ Local Service Need) May Include

• Assisting to establish and participating in the running of rapid access clinic and clinics where necessary and developing integrated care pathways to aid management
• Assisting to establish and participating in the running of clinics dedicated to the management of Arrhythmia
• Undertaking other clinic sessions across the network, including running of preadmission clinics for patients undergoing elective procedures, new patient and follow up clinics
• Establishing appropriate support services for patients with long-term conditions and ensuring appropriate patient information is available regarding the spectrum of arrhythmia conditions, investigations and treatments
  
  

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

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.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties

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.
  
  

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
• Substantial experience within cardiology services
• Relevant experience inrelation to arrhythmia management
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Proven management of teams within the healthcare setting
  
  

Skills & Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Good time keeping and communication skills
• Teaching skills
• Able to work as an effective team member
• Awareness of current professional nursing issues
  
  

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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Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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