Staff Nurse - Cardiac Rehabilitation | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Southend University Hospital NHS Trust; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A health organization in Chelmsford is seeking a Staff Nurse to join their Cardiac Rehabilitation team. The role involves supporting patients through various phases of rehabilitation, ensuring high-quality care, and collaborating with a multi-disciplinary team. Ideal candidates will have strong interpersonal skills and a commitment to patient well-being. This vacancy closes on Tuesday, 28 Oct 2025.

Qualifications

• Professional and confident Staff Nurse abilities appreciated.
• Ability to work effectively in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Strong relationship-building skills with patients and families.

Responsibilities

• Assist in supporting the high quality Cardiac Rehabilitation service.
• Act as an information resource for patients and families.
• Maintain a safe environment for patients during cardiac rehabilitation.

Job description

Our Cardiac Rehabilitation service at Broomfield hospital is a well established team that covers Broomfield hospital and the mid Essex region and we have a wonderful opportunity for a professional, confident Staff Nurse to join its small supportive team.

Your role will assist in supporting the current effective high quality Cardiac Rehabilitation service and the patient choice initiative, its future development including physical, educational, emotional, and psychological support of patients, relatives and carers enabling them to live with their disease, treatment and the implications thereafter.

You will be involved in all phases of the cardiac rehabilitation process, liaising effectively to establish and maintain professional relationships with the multi-disciplinary team, agencies, and organisations and covering both inpatients and outpatients working across all sites (Broomfield/ Maldon/Witham/ Braintree districts).

Your role will be to act as an information resource for patients, to establish good relationships with patients and their families through all phases of cardiac rehabilitation and patient choice initiative, to help with Phase II telephone follow up calls and ensure accurate documentation and to compile comprehensive and accurate advice and discharge letters to GP's and other multi-disciplinary staff.

You will maintain a safe environment for patients attending cardiac rehabilitation as per risk assessments and protocols, assess, plan, deliver and evaluate patients care utilising an individual holistic approach, monitor all relevant NICE Guidelines and will also assist in the planning of discharge from rehabilitation of cardiac patients including future goal setting, implementation of secondary prevention issues and informing primary care clinicians of patient’s status and future needs.

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Are you looking for an exciting Staff Nurse role using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you.

For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.

We look forward to your application.

Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications.

This advert closes on Tuesday 28 Oct 2025