Cardiac Surgery Specialist Nurse

Transformationunitgm; Manchester; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare provider as a Cardiac Surgery Specialist Nurse at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester. You'll be part of a dynamic team, collaborating with consultant surgeons to deliver high-quality care for cardiac surgery patients. With opportunities for professional growth and involvement in patient management, this role promises a fulfilling career path in a supportive and innovative environment.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years post-registration experience in cardiology/cardiac surgery.
• Ability to work autonomously and within a team.
• Experience of pre-operative assessment.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical expertise and knowledge for cardiac surgery patients.
• Assess, plan, and evaluate patient care throughout the pre-admission pathway.
• Act as an advocate and support for patients in a team nursing model.

Skills

Clinical skills

Communication

Time management

IT skills

Counseling skills

Education

NMC registration

Recognised teaching qualification

Educated to degree level

Job description

Employer Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Wythenshawe Hospital Town Manchester Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum (pro rata) Salary period Yearly Closing 11/06/2025 23:59

Cardiac Surgery Specialist Nurse

Band 6

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for highly motivated, flexible, proactive experienced cardiac nurses to join the cardiac surgery specialist nursing team based at the Northwest Heart Centre, Wythenshawe Hospital.

Our team collaborates closely with Consultant cardiac surgeons to provide clinical expertise and knowledge in the assessment, treatment and management of patients along the cardiac surgery pre-admission pathway to promote excellent patient outcomes.

The successful applicant should be highly motivated in working with this patient group and have an active and demonstrable interest in continued professional and service development.

They should be able to work independently and within a team, have excellent communication and time management skills and be responsive to pressures and changing working practices.

The ability to deliver patient teaching, including to patient groups and to colleagues will be an important part of the role.

This role requires cross site and peripheral clinic working and therefore a car driver is essential

You must possess excellent communication skills and have a minimum of three years post registration experience and cardiac surgery and/or cardiology experience.

Main duties of the job

The cardiac surgery specialist nurse will be expected to provide clinical expertise and knowledge, demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues relevant to people preparing for cardiac surgery. They will assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient care throughout the pre-admission cardiac surgery pathway for elective and urgent patients. Work in collaboration with Consultant Cardiac surgeons, lead specialist nurses, specialist nursing team and operational management to ensure efficient and safe progression along the pre-operative pathway in preparation for surgery. They will preoperatively assess, optimise, prehabilitate, and prepare patients for Cardiac surgery to promote positive surgical outcomes. They will act as an advocate, contact and support patients within a team nursing model.

Assessment involves a wide range of cardiac conditions that require surgical intervention including aortic surgery and nurse-led aortic aneurysm surveillance.

The post is based at Wythenshawe hospital, it involves cross-site working across hospitals in MFT and secondary care centres throughout the Northwest.

A car driver is therefore essential.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating, and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at [e-mail].

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

• NMC registration
• Recognised teaching qualification or experience
• Evidence of continuing education and professional development
• Educated to degree level

Skills

• Able to relate theory to practice
• Excellent clinical skills – interpreting blood results and observations
• Ability to work autonomously, independently and within a team
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written, and verbal
• Good time management
• Excellent organisational skills, ability to prioritise own workload to promote an efficient service
• IT skills (EPR, word processing, excel, email, and internet as a minimum)
• Venepuncture and cannulation skills
• Counselling skills
• ECG interpretation
• Clinical examination course

Experience

• Experience in Cardiology and/or Cardiac surgery
• Experience of pre-operative assessment
• Clinical audit Participation in research

Knowledge

• Knowledge about Cardiac surgery/Cardiology
• Awareness of trust guidelines in relation to COVID19
• Awareness of the wider local and national policies around coronary artery disease
• Awareness of local and national clinical governance issues

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Victoria Proudley Job title Lead Specialist Nurse Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0161 291 2993 Additional information

Victoria Proudley, lead cardiac surgery specialist nurse.

Telephone [phone] ore email [e-mail]

Informal visits are encouraged.