Job summary
Job Title: Cardiac Catheter Band 6
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week
Perm/Fixed Term: Permanent
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 (dependant on experience)
Closing Date: 31st December 2024
Interview Date: 9th January 2025 (subject to change)
**This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly. **
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
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We are seeking an enthusiastic Band 6 aiming to support, manage and develop in our Cardiac Hub with experience of working in this service. Applicants must be able to demonstrate a genuine desire and interest in working in the field of cardiac nursing.
You must enjoy working in a busy environment and be a true team player. The job can be physically demanding, and you must be able to stand for long periods in the lab wearing lead protection. Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills are essential. Working alongside the Cardiology Consultants, operational leads and Senior Nursing team to help mould the future development of the service.
Main duties of the job
- Maintain and protect the safety, confidentiality, and dignity of the patient and their families, offering support and reassurance patient during the procedure.
- Assess the patient individual needs, plan care within the framework of medical care, implement and evaluate nursing care for the entire patient underwent cardiac investigation procedures.
- Demonstrate advance competent clinical practice in the management of cardiac patients and impart knowledgeable information about diagnosis and treatment as well as lifestyle modification choices to patients and their relatives/carers.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care' takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits: On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide the best care for our patients through the delivery of high quality, evidence based holistic care for patients undergoing Interventional Cardiology and Pacing procedures.
- To provide acute and elective procedures for patients including diagnostic angiography, cardiac devices, and forms of invasive assessment of cardiac function, physiology, and structure within the catheterisation labs.
- To scrub and circulate for all procedures, provide pre- and post-procedure recovery care, patient education to work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing optimal use of the cardiac catheterisation labs to promote flow of patients through cardiology.
- To undertake the Co-ordinator role for the invasive cardiology procedures and to facilitate effective patient flow of elective and emergency patients.
- To receive and care for patients (and their relatives) directly into the Cardiology Day Unit.
- To manage pre-assessment clinics for patients undergoing cardiac procedures.
- To support all patients and staff within the Cardiology speciality services.
- Clinical leadership through effective monitoring and implementation of standards andevidence-based practice.
- Provide clinical leadership and direction to nursing team.
- Act as a role model for all nursing staff within the unit always promoting professional practice.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- To provide the best care for our patients through the delivery of high quality, evidence based holistic care for patients undergoing Interventional Cardiology and Pacing procedures.
- To provide acute and elective procedures for patients including diagnostic angiography, cardiac devices, and forms of invasive assessment of cardiac function, physiology, and structure within the catheterisation labs.
- To scrub and circulate for all procedures, provide pre- and post-procedure recovery care, patient education to work as part of a multidisciplinary team providing optimal use of the cardiac catheterisation labs to promote flow of patients through cardiology.
- To undertake the Co-ordinator role for the invasive cardiology procedures and to facilitate effective patient flow of elective and emergency patients.
- To receive and care for patients (and their relatives) directly into the Cardiology Day Unit.
- To manage pre-assessment clinics for patients undergoing cardiac procedures.
- To support all patients and staff within the Cardiology speciality services.
- Clinical leadership through effective monitoring and implementation of standards andevidence-based practice.
- Provide clinical leadership and direction to nursing team.
- Act as a role model for all nursing staff within the unit always promoting professional practice.
Person Specification
Application and Interview
Essential
- Experience at Band 5 in a cardiac catheter setting minimum 2 years
- Evidence of managing own workload with excellent time management skills
- Relevant current professional qualification
- Ability to lead and work in cardiac catheter lab with understanding of procedures and devices
- Ability to demonstrate clinical and professional knowledge
- Demonstrates the ability to effectively manage resources
- Teaching/Leadership Qualification
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Educated to degree level in Nursing
- Organisational skills to review waiting lists and support planning of activity
Desirable
- Evidence of leadership and change management
- Supporting quality monitoring processes
- Able to identify risks, potential risks and advise on solutions to mitigate these
Person Specification
Application and Interview
Essential
- Experience at Band 5 in a cardiac catheter setting minimum 2 years
- Evidence of managing own workload with excellent time management skills
- Relevant current professional qualification
- Ability to lead and work in cardiac catheter lab with understanding of procedures and devices
- Ability to demonstrate clinical and professional knowledge
- Demonstrates the ability to effectively manage resources
- Teaching/Leadership Qualification
- Evidence of continuous professional development
- Educated to degree level in Nursing
- Organisational skills to review waiting lists and support planning of activity
Desirable
- Evidence of leadership and change management
- Supporting quality monitoring processes
- Able to identify risks, potential risks and advise on solutions to mitigate these
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
