Cardiology Specialist Nurse

Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; North Tyneside; Remote; GBP 34,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Generous annual leave

Pension scheme

Wellbeing Hub access

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Cardiology Specialist Nurse to join our cardiology services. You will work with medical and technical teams to deliver comprehensive, patient-centered care across inpatient and outpatient settings.

You will lead training, support protocol development, and participate in audits and national research projects, while promoting compassionate and inclusive leadership within the team.

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with cardiology expertise and driving licence
• Experience delivering specialist clinic services in Cardiology
• Ability to lead education and audits within a team

Responsibilities

• Provide a comprehensive specialist clinical nursing service within Cardiology medicine with emphasis on patient-centered care
• Develop protocols and audits in own specialist area and support colleagues
• Work interdisciplinary to provide high-quality care for cardiology patients
• Provide specialist training and education to doctors, nurses, and allied health professionals
• Participate in audits and national research projects
• Demonstrate inclusive leadership to promote learning and quality improvement

Skills

Specialist Cardiology Nursing

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Audit & research

Coaching leadership

Patient-centered care

Education

Degree in nursing / health studies

1st level Registered Nurse

Heart Failure Course

Registered non-medical prescriber

Clinical skills course

Counselling course

British Association for cardiac rehabilitation Exercise Course

ECDL

Tools

None

Job description

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It's open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts - rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and peoples homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise - a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect peoples lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

If Northumbria Healthcare sounds like somewhere you could belong we would love to hear from you. Visit our website to catch up on our latest news.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

Responsible to the Lead Cardiology Specialist Nurse.

In collaboration with medical and technical teams, participate in the organisation, control and delivery of treatment and associated care within specialist nurse led cardiology services.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

• Provide a comprehensive specialist clinical nursing service within Cardiology medicine, with emphasis on patient cantered care.
• Take a role in the development and service delivery in own specialist area including developing protocols and audits whilst supporting colleagues in their specialism.
• Work in an interdisciplinary manner, to provide high quality care for cardiology patients, both as inpatients and outpatients.
• Provide highly specialist training and education in cardiology medicine to doctors, nurses, allied healthcare professionals and students.
• Participate in audit / research to evaluate practice and participate in local and national audit / research projects.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Manage Cardiology Specialist Nurse led services, e g. Heart Failure, refer for Post Myocardial Infarction follow Up and Cardiac Rehabilitation, Heart failure Virtual ward, Pre-assessment Clinics and Cardioversion service.
• Assist with the provision of Transoesophageal Echocardiography, contrast echo and Stress ECHO.
• Provide a comprehensive specialist clinical nursing service within Cardiology medicine, with an emphasis on patient centered care.
• Take a role in the development and service delivery in own specialist area including developing protocols and audits whilst supporting colleagues in their specialism.
• Work in an interdisciplinary manner, to provide high quality care for cardiology patients, both as inpatients and outpatients.
• Provide a telephone helpline for patients with complex cardiac conditions
• Participate in clinical audit data in own specialist area and participate in national audits and research projects.
• Liaise with primary and secondary care to ensure robust lines of communication to assist with the development of cardiology services.

Person specification

Qualifications

• 1st level Registered Nurse
• Degree in nursing / health studies or equivalent experience/training
• Clinical skills course and/or advanced history taking skills
• Counselling course
• Heart Failure Course (12 month course)
• Registered non-medical prescriber
• British Association for cardiac rehabilitation Exercise Course
• ECDL

Experience and knowledge

• Evidence of specialist education and training in Cardiology
• Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
• Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods

Other requirements

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Make sure to read the 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application and make sure you know everything there is to know before joining our fantastic trust!

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

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