Deputy Sister Catheter Labs and Bronchoscopy
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Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity to join the Cardiology management team in Catheter Labs and Bronchoscopy.
Por team strive for high quality standards ensuring that the department is safe, patients' needs are met, and we are proactive in the wellbeing of our staff. We lead with compassion and work to develop the service and others we care and work with.
Cath Labs and Bronchoscopy has 6 Cath Labs, 2 Bronchoscopy suites and a recovery area. Within Cath labs you will be expected to scrub and circulate for both elective and acutely unwell patients undergoing procedures in the department. Procedures include Angiogram, Angioplasty, patients presenting with acute Myocardial Infarction via our emergency Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention PPCI pathway. EP studies and treatment of arrythmia with ablation. Implantation of pacemaker and ICD devices. Structural procedures including closure of PFO, ASD also valve implantation TAVI.
Bronchoscopy involves assisting during and monitoring patients during their procedure. You will also rotate to our recovery area, looking after patient who have had a general anaesthetic, Bronchoscopy procedure or require post procedure recovery care before going back to the ward.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be expected to deputise in the absence of the department sister and will oversee the day-to-day management of the nursing team providing clear leadership by acting as an expert practitioner and role model assisting junior colleagues to develop advanced knowledge and skills to benefit the treatment and care of critically ill patients in our hospital.
To manage the nursing team and provide a safe, effective level of patient care to patients coming to have procedures in Cath Labs and Bronchoscopy.
The role includes responsibility for systems which ensure the implementation, maintenance and monitoring of quality standards, the delivery of supervision and appraisal and the management of clinical rosters in line with our performance goals.
Development opportunities at Royal Papworth Hospital are first class, with supportive individualised orientation programme and opportunities to progress in your career.
About us
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.
Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.
The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.
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Details
Date posted
11 August 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£35,392 to £42,618 a year
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
175-2324-1-CL92
Job locations
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
Employer details
Employer name
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Royal Papworth Hospital
Papworth Road
Cambridge Bio Medical Campus
Cambridge
CB2 0AY
Employer's website
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