Cardiology Day Case Staff Nurse

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals; Lancashire; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 5 Staff Nurse for the Cardiac Day Case Unit. The role covers a Monday–Friday pattern from 07:30 to 21:00, with support from nursing and medical teams and training provided to develop required clinical skills.

You will prepare patients for procedures, support recovery, and deliver discharge advice while maintaining patient safety and high-quality care within NHS standards.

Qualifications

• Registered Nursing qualification and active NMC registration.

Responsibilities

• Provide high quality and timely nursing care to all patients with clear communication and reassurance.
• Take charge of the unit and coordinate catheter lab activity following training.
• Maintain high standards of nursing care and follow NMC guidelines.
• Maintain accurate written and electronic records in line with legal requirements.
• Be prepared to work flexibly to the needs of the service.

Skills

Venepuncture

Cannulation

IV drug administration

Team leadership

Communication skills

Education

Registered Nurse (1st Level)

Diploma

Teaching & Assessing qualification/conversion completed as per NMC guidelines

Degree or working towards

Leadership course

ALS

Job description

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Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

Job overview

A position has become available for a part time Band 5 Staff Nurse on Cardiac Day Case Unit. Cardiac Day Case unit is a busy unit taking elective and interhospital patients for preparation and recovery post procedures providing high quality care. This position is a monday to friday working 7:30am to 21:00pm.

The successful candidates will be supported by both our nursing and medical team and essential training for the role will be provided.

You must be able to communicate effectively with a wide range of healthcare professionals and be enthusiastic and passionate about the delivery of high-quality care. As part of your role you will be required prepare patients for procedures and recover patients safely and to provide appropriate discharge advice. You will be required to undertake be a range of clinical skills to fulfil the role requirements, such as undertaking clinical observations, cannulation and venepuncture (taking blood samples). All necessary training for acquiring these skills will be provided by the Trust.

Main duties of the job

To provide high quality and timely care to all our patients, you need to have excellent communication skills as our patients are often complex and require additional help, reassurance and understanding. To be able to complete safe transfer of patients between the day unit and wards and demonstrate safe and effective handover of same.

You will be expected to take charge of the unit and co ordinating catheter lab activity, and support with the catheter lab following adequate training.

You will be expected to maintain high standards of nursing care and follow standards set by the NMC.

You will be expected to maintain accurate written and/or electronic records ensuring all legal requirements are met.

You will be encouraged and supported to gain new skills and to be actively involved in change improvement and being a champion for an area of care that you feel interested in. You should also be committed to and have evidence of continuing professional development.

You will need to be prepared to work flexibly to the needs of the service.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high number of applicants apply.

Working for our organisation

Working for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will provide you with lots of opportunity to develop your skills and further your career. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre and North Lancashire.

We are proud of the care we strive to provide, and we want to continue to build on this by the addition of passionate, kind and caring people to our teams. Using the latest pathways, evidence-based care and, using all the community therapy support networks available to us to give every patient the best opportunity to remain independent, safe and supported. We are looking for people who strongly align with our Trust values and share common goals.

As a Trust we are committed to:

• Developing new roles and ways of working to ensure a flexible and innovative approach to staff.
• Real equality of opportunity.
• Continuous learning and development for staff.
• Achieving a work life balance

We are committed to the effective recruitment, retention and development for our employees, which is why we offer a great working environment, an attractive range of benefits and excellent opportunities for training and development.

The Trust is accredited as a Disability Confident employer. That means we recognise our obligations to ensure people with disabilities are afforded equal opportunity to enter employment and progress if and where possible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information on the Job Description and main responsibilities, please see the attached Job Description.

Please also read the attached Person Specification to ensure you have the relevant criteria for the post.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse (1st Level)
• Diploma
• Teaching & Assessing qualification/conversion completed as per NMC guidelines
• Degree or working towards
• Leadership course
• ALS

Experience & Knowledge

• Substantial post registration cath lab experience and signed off for on call emergency service.
• Experience of regularly manging own workload across all specialities within the cath labs
• Teaching within clinical area
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Experience of clinical audit and research
• Experience of managing acutely unwell patients
• Experience of taking charge of ward area
• Experience of change management

Skills & Ability

• Ability to set and establish priorities
• Team player and team leadership qualities
• Decision maker
• Communicates at all levels
• Lateral thinker and problem solver
• Management of change
• Venepuncture/cannulation
• IV drug administration
• ILS
• Ability/willingness to train to scrub assist for Angio/PCI procedures or be working towards sign off for this

If the role you have applied for requires a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check we will administer this as part of your pre-employment checks. Please note, you will be required to repay the cost on appointment. This will be collected via a salary deduction. You can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months from your salary or as a one-off payment on commencement in post. The level of check required depends on the role that you have been offered. Currently the charges are - Basic DBS check £24, Standard DBS check £24 and Enhanced DBS check £45.

You are encouraged where possible, to register for the DBS update service. This is an annual registration fee of £15. By registering for the update service you will not have the additional cost of repeated disclosures.

Should you withdraw your application, you may be required to reimburse the cost of the DBS check.

DBS checks remain free of charge for volunteer positions.

By submitting an application for this vacancy you are confirming your agreement to the above in the event you are successfully appointed.

The DBS Code of Practice can be accessed here .

Please note that every effort will be made to keep the vacancy live until published closing date, though there may be instances where such interest is generated, that for administrative reasons the post may close earlier.

Please note that in line with national NHS guidelines this Trust operates a strict non-smoking policy. Members of staff are not permitted to smoke on Trust premises or grounds at any time nor take breaks during working hours for the purposes of smoking.

The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.