Band 5 Staff Nurse - Cardiology - Coronary Care Unit/Cardiac Cath Labs

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare institution in Birmingham seeks a motivated Band 5 Staff Nurse to join their Coronary Care Unit. The successful candidate will provide high-quality, evidence-based care for patients with complex cardiac conditions, working within a supportive team. This role offers the opportunity for career development in a dynamic environment, with responsibilities including patient assessment, care planning, and shift management. Flexible shift patterns including nights and weekends are required.

Qualifications

• Evidence of professional knowledge for NMC registration.
• Experience in acute health care.
• Willingness to supervise nursing students.

Responsibilities

• Provide compassionate nursing care to patients.
• Assess patient care needs and plan accordingly.
• Manage care in a shift setting.

Skills

Communication

Clinical skills

Relationship management

Education

Degree or diploma leading to NMC registration

Undergraduate education or post-graduate professional development

Job description

Overview

Band 5 Staff Nurse - Cardiology - Coronary Care Unit/Cardiac Cath Labs

Closing date: 30 September 2025

About the role

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 5 staff nurse to join our dynamic Coronary Care unit and Cardiac Cath Lab Team at Queen Elizabeth Hospital. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your nursing career within a specialist area. Working alongside a skilled and supportive multidisciplinary team.

The Post holder will provide high-quality evidence-based care for patients with both acute and complex cardiac conditions. This includes working as part of a 24/7 service, covering day and night shifts, weekends, bank holidays and emergency on-call cover for our 24/7 Primary PCI service.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will practice autonomously and be responsible and accountable for safe, compassionate person-centred evidence-based nursing that respects and maintains dignity and human rights. They will be responsible for assessment of care needs of patients and planning programmes of care, implementation and the evaluation of these programmes without direct supervision. At times they will have management responsibility for being in charge of the ward/department and supervising junior members of staff.

The post holder will practice in a holistic, non-judgmental, caring and compassionate manner that avoids assumptions, supports social inclusion and recognises and respects individual choice and acknowledges diversity. They will work in partnership with other health and social care professionals, students and trainees and agencies, service users, their carers and families. The post holder will contribute to the practice development within their clinical care setting and work in accordance with Trust Policies, Procedures and Guidelines and will be responsible for completing any work-based training associated with the role.

About us

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.

Job responsibilities

*Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of professional and clinical knowledge acquired through training to degree/diploma level leading to Professional registration on the appropriate part of the NMC register i.e. (Adult / Child / Learning Disability or Mental Health)
• Evidence of undergraduate education for newly qualified nurses or post-graduate continuing professional development for registered nurses who have post-registration experience

Experience

• Previous/recent experience in an acute secondary health and care setting (can include undergraduate student placements within the last 12 months)
• Willingness to become a practice supervisor/assessor to meet Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards for student supervision and assessment
• Demonstrable understanding and knowledge of the NMC code of conduct and the proficiencies and standards for registered nurses
• Being an accountable professional
• Promoting health and preventing ill health
• Assessing needs and planning care
• Providing and evaluating care
• Leading and managing nursing care and working in teams — including prioritisation and delegation skills
• Coordinating care and responding to deteriorating health
• Improving safety and quality of care
• Awareness of current relevant clinical and professional issues and NHS policy
• Understanding/experience of the principles of safeguarding and mental capacity
• Awareness of health and safety issues
• Experience in working in an Acute NHS practice setting as an undergraduate student nurse or post-graduate registered nurse

Additional Criteria

• Demonstrable communication and relationship management skills which include listening, writing, reading, speaking in English with understanding of contemporaneous record keeping
• Good IT skills - ability to record information electronically
• Competent in a range of clinical skills/nursing procedures and willingness to undertake expanded practices relevant to the scope of practice required
• Competent in managing the care of a group of patients / shift management (take charge of the practice setting in the absence of more senior staff)
• Professional appearance
• Displays genuine interest in the post applied for
• Positive and enthusiastic attitude
• Caring and approachable
• Ability to work a varied shift pattern including nights/ weekends/ unsocial hours where required
• The applicant can describe why the Trust may deploy him/her to a different practice setting for a span of duty
• ECG rhythm recognition and interpretation
• ILS / ALS

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.

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust