Job summary
INTERNAL
An exciting opportunity has arisen within this highly desirable specialist nurse team for a secondment position to cover maternity leave for 9 months. Depending on experience the successful candidate will be offered either a band 6 position or band 7 position.
The heart valve specialist nurse team are a small specialist nurse team with advanced clinical practice skills who work alongside the specialist structural interventional consultants to deliver the planning, treatment, and post procedure care of transcatheter aortic valve implantation for the treatment of aortic stenosis from the first point of referral following the patient pathway delivering specialist nursing skills through to discharge and 6 weeks beyond.
The nursing team are paramount in efficiently managing this commissioned service and work closely with all members of the Cardiology MDT.
The nursing workforce deliver autonomous nurse led clinics which prescribing is incorporated. The nursing team automatously clerk, review, assess and manage all inpatient transcatheter aortic valve patients independently with the support and expertise of the TAVI consultants.
Main duties of the job
Communication & Relationship Skills: Effectively communicate with patients and carers, providing support, information, and counselling. Serve as an advocate for TAVI patients and offer specialist advice and education.
Planning & Organisational Skills: Develop expertise in valve disease, coordinate patient bookings, and prioritise TAVI procedures. Attend relevant meetings and provide ongoing support for patients and carers. Coordinate pre-admission and follow-up clinics, ensuring efficient patient management.
Knowledge, Training & Experience: Take responsibility for professional development and stay updated on cardiac care practices. Contribute to policy development and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to enhance patient care.
Responsibility for Policy/Service Development: Lead by example, provide clinical education, and support staff. Collaborate with stakeholders to develop care protocols and streamline patient pathways.
Patient/Client Care: Provide specialised nursing care for TAVI patients, conducting comprehensive assessments and developing care plans. Manage pre-admission and follow-up clinics, refer patients to appropriate services, and promote patient self-care.
Responsibility for Research & Development: Participate in quality improvement, audit, and research activities. Maintain a register of TAVI patients and evaluate the effectiveness of nursing interventions. Contribute to service planning and budgeting processes based on audit data and specialist knowledge.
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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Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in nursing, or equivalent Health related degree, or equivalent
- Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent experience
- Post graduate qualification in clinical assessment skills, or equivalent demonstrable experience.
- Counselling certificate
- Proven management and leadership experience
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification in Non Medical Prescribing or ability to work towards this
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable extensive experience in Cardiac nursing.
- Demonstrable ability to undertake a comprehensive assessment of patient taking an accurate history.
- Demonstrable skills in in clinical examination
- Demonstrable experience at band 6 or equivalent
- Work within the boundaries of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
- Evidence of advanced clinical and professional development
- Willingness to study to a higher academic level
- Demonstrates excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- In-depth knowledge of the pathophysiology of valve disease
- Demonstrates good teaching skills
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Effectively co-ordinates own and others workload
- Demonstrates team working
- Demonstrates ability to synthesize information and respond autonomously
- Demonstrates ability to initiate change in practice
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to work in an environment with a high degree of uncertainty
- Good previous attendance record
- Flexible approach to working hours and practices
- Treat hospital information confidentially
- Ability to supervise and develop staff
- Ability to undertake manual handling tasks
- Ability to deal with complex situations
- Ability to deal with sensitive and contentious issues in a professional manner
- Ability to concentrate for periods of time whilst writing reports
- IT Skills; able to enter and retrieve data
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Degree in nursing, or equivalent Health related degree, or equivalent
- Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent experience
- Post graduate qualification in clinical assessment skills, or equivalent demonstrable experience.
- Counselling certificate
- Proven management and leadership experience
- Evidence of continued professional development
Desirable
- Post graduate qualification in Non Medical Prescribing or ability to work towards this
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrable extensive experience in Cardiac nursing.
- Demonstrable ability to undertake a comprehensive assessment of patient taking an accurate history.
- Demonstrable skills in in clinical examination
- Demonstrable experience at band 6 or equivalent
- Work within the boundaries of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
- Evidence of advanced clinical and professional development
- Willingness to study to a higher academic level
- Demonstrates excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- In-depth knowledge of the pathophysiology of valve disease
- Demonstrates good teaching skills
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
- Effectively co-ordinates own and others workload
- Demonstrates team working
- Demonstrates ability to synthesize information and respond autonomously
- Demonstrates ability to initiate change in practice
- Ability to work under pressure
- Ability to work in an environment with a high degree of uncertainty
- Good previous attendance record
- Flexible approach to working hours and practices
- Treat hospital information confidentially
- Ability to supervise and develop staff
- Ability to undertake manual handling tasks
- Ability to deal with complex situations
- Ability to deal with sensitive and contentious issues in a professional manner
- Ability to concentrate for periods of time whilst writing reports
- IT Skills; able to enter and retrieve data
Additional Criteria
Essential
- Please provide evidence of your commitment to uphold the Trust's values: Compassion, Excellence, Collaboration
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
