Staff Nurse

Bidvane; Bolton; Hybrid; GBP 27,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cardiology training

Structured preceptorship

Buddy support

Specialist link roles

Personal development

Job summary

Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Staff Nurse to join the Cardiology team in Specialist Medicine on a 25-bed ward with telemetry. You will provide direct, patient-centred care for acute and chronic cardiac conditions and co-morbidities.

The role offers full- or part-time hours with opportunities for specialist learning and development, structured preceptorship, and buddy support to newly qualified nurses as you progress in cardiology.

Qualifications

• NMC registration
• Experience in a hospital setting
• Excellent communication skills
• Degree
• Cardiology experience

Responsibilities

• Provide direct, patient-centred nursing care
• Manage patients with acute and chronic cardiac conditions, including after myocardial infarction, with arrhythmias or pacemakers, and before or after angiograms
• Monitor patients using telemetry
• Care for patients with multiple co-morbidities
• Support patients, relatives and multidisciplinary team members
• Work with the coronary care unit and pacing lab to provide joined-up care
• Work with the multidisciplinary team and maintain links with north-west cardiac tertiary centres
• Help address current and emerging cardiology and general care issues proactively
• Promote and lead delivery of a high standard of care

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Education

Degree

Job description

The Staff Nurse joins the Cardiology team in Specialist Medicine at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust. The post provides direct care on C1, managing acute and chronic cardiac conditions and patients with multiple co-morbidities while working with the wider multidisciplinary team. It offers full- or part-time work on a 25-bed mixed-sex ward with telemetry beds, alongside specialist learning and development. NMC registration and hospital experience are required; overseas applicants with only Part 1 NMC registration are not accepted.

What the job involves

• Provide direct, patient-centred nursing care
• Manage patients with acute and chronic cardiac conditions, including after myocardial infarction, with arrhythmias or pacemakers, and before or after angiograms
• Monitor patients using telemetry
• Care for patients with multiple co-morbidities
• Support patients, relatives and multidisciplinary team members
• Work with the coronary care unit and pacing lab to provide joined-up care
• Work with the multidisciplinary team and maintain links with north-west cardiac tertiary centres
• Help address current and emerging cardiology and general care issues proactively
• Promote and lead delivery of a high standard of care

What’s required

Registration & licences

• NMC registration

Experience

• Experience in a hospital setting

Skills & knowledge

• Excellent communication skills

Nice to have

• Degree
• Cardiology experience

What’s offered

• A tailored cardiology learning programme and training
• Structured preceptorship and a preceptor for newly qualified nurses
• Training and development tailored to experienced staff
• Buddy support for experienced staff
• Opportunities to develop or enhance specialist link roles