Job summary
Exciting Opportunity - Coordination and Triage
Nurse -Band 6
Worcestershire Heart Centre
Full-time / Part-time opportunities considered
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Band 6 Coordination
and Triage Nurse to join the Worcestershire Heart Centre.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in
coordinating patient care, supporting the smooth operation of cardiac services,
and ensuring timely, high-quality clinical management.
We are looking for a motivated and clinically confident
nurse who:-
Has
substantial post-registration experience, ideally within cardiology or
acute care.
Demonstrates
excellent leadership, decision-making, and communication skills.
Is
confident managing a dynamic caseload in a fast-paced clinical
environment.
Is
committed to delivering patient-centred care and continuous quality
improvement.
Work alongside Cardiology Nurse Practitioners, Specialist Nurses and Registered Nurses in the Worcester Heart Centre.
Join us at the Worcestershire Heart Centre and be part of
a team making a real difference in the lives of patients with acute cardiac
conditions.
Informal visits are encouraged and welcomed.
For further information or to arrange an informal visit
please contact:-
Bethany Higgins.Email: Bethany.higgins9@nhs.net
| Tel: 01905 760147
James Gregory. Email: james.gregory4@nhs.net | Tel: 01905
760147
Kerry O'Dowd - Email: kerry.o'dowd@nhs.net | Bleep 278 via
switchboard 01905 763333
Main duties of the job
This role is integral to enhancing the patient journey and delivering safe, effective cardiac care within a multidisciplinary team environment.
To facilitate flow of patients from admission via Emergency Department and through the whole patient journey.
To play a key role in ensuring national and local targets are met.
What We Offer
A supportive, forward-thinking multidisciplinary team.
Ongoing professional development, training, and leadership opportunities
Access to a wide range of NHS employee benefits, including the NHS pension scheme, staff wellbeing programmes, and flexible working options.
About us
Our purpose is simple - Putting Patients First. We are looking for exceptional colleagues who can help us achieve this.
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust is a large acute and specialised hospital trust that provides a range of local acute services to the residents of Worcestershire and more specialised services to a larger population in Herefordshire and beyond.
The Trust operates hospital-based services from three sites in Kidderminster, Redditch and Worcester
Our workforce is over 7,000 strong, and our caring staff are recognised as providing good and outstanding patient-centred care. You could be one of them.
We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us to achieve our Vision - working in partnership to provide the best healthcare for our communities, leading and supporting our teams to move 4ward. Our 4ward behaviours, which we ask all staff to demonstrate, underpin our everyday work and remain firmly at the heart of all we do.
Our objectives are simple:
- Best services for local people
- Best experience of care and best outcomes for our patients
- Best use of resources
- Best people
Better never stops, and our Clinical Services Strategy provides a clear future vision for our Trust, our hospitals, our services and our role in the wider health and care system.
We are proud to have achieved Timewise accreditation - this means we are committed to embedding flexible working within our organisation as a flex positive employer.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Triage referrals from the Emergency Department
(ED), community services, and primary care to ensure timely and appropriate
clinical responses.
Support with the triage of Rapid Access Chest
Pain Clinic and Chest Pain Review Clinic referrals.
Coordinate patient flow across acute cardiac
services to facilitate prompt assessment and treatment.
Conduct clinical procedures such as ECGs,
venepuncture, and cannulation.
Determine and request appropriate initial
investigations and blood tests based on clinical presentation.
To assist with the organisation of the direct
current cardioversion (DCCV) list, helping to ensure efficient patient flow and
contribute to meeting waiting time targets
Apply expert knowledge of acute cardiac
conditions to support effective clinical decision-making and optimise patient
outcomes.
To reduce hospital admissions and help
prevent/avoid re-admissions
To maintain NMC registration and achieve any
related competencies
To maintain own continuing professional
development in line with clinical governance, local guidelines and national
standards
To work within the regulations contained in the
professional code of conduct
To be responsible for maintaining own competence
through self-directed learning and reflective practice.
To be legally and professionally accountable for
all aspects of own work
To develop plans to gain patients and carers
views on service provision and to ensure that these inform future service
development initiatives
To ensure that patient confidentiality, privacy
and dignity are always maintained.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further requirements for this post.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Triage referrals from the Emergency Department
(ED), community services, and primary care to ensure timely and appropriate
clinical responses.
Support with the triage of Rapid Access Chest
Pain Clinic and Chest Pain Review Clinic referrals.
Coordinate patient flow across acute cardiac
services to facilitate prompt assessment and treatment.
Conduct clinical procedures such as ECGs,
venepuncture, and cannulation.
Determine and request appropriate initial
investigations and blood tests based on clinical presentation.
To assist with the organisation of the direct
current cardioversion (DCCV) list, helping to ensure efficient patient flow and
contribute to meeting waiting time targets
Apply expert knowledge of acute cardiac
conditions to support effective clinical decision-making and optimise patient
outcomes.
To reduce hospital admissions and help
prevent/avoid re-admissions
To maintain NMC registration and achieve any
related competencies
To maintain own continuing professional
development in line with clinical governance, local guidelines and national
standards
To work within the regulations contained in the
professional code of conduct
To be responsible for maintaining own competence
through self-directed learning and reflective practice.
To be legally and professionally accountable for
all aspects of own work
To develop plans to gain patients and carers
views on service provision and to ensure that these inform future service
development initiatives
To ensure that patient confidentiality, privacy
and dignity are always maintained.
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further requirements for this post.
Person Specification
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Demonstrates good communication skills, including emotional resilience, conflict management.
- Ability to work flexibly within the confines of the team and service.
- Provides support to all members of the multidisciplinary team.
Qualifications
Essential
- First level registration NMC Registration (Adult).
- BSc In Nursing 1st degree or working towards.
- Basic Life Support.
Desirable
- ECG interpretation and arrhythmia management course.
- Acute Cardiac Conditions course.
- Long Term Cardiac Conditions course and Recognition of acutely ill patient course.
- Relevant post-registration training or qualifications in cardiology or acute care.
Experience
Essential
- Experience working autonomously and triaging patients in acute care.
- Experience in managing acute ill and deteriorating patients including sepsis.
- Venepuncture and cannulation skills.
- Ability to request and interpret initial investigations (bloods and ECGs).
- Ability to identify and manage risk.
- Computer literacy.
Desirable
- Independent working and autonomy.
- Previous post within an acute cardiology setting.
- Previous Band 6 experience.
- ILS
- Competency in ECG interpretation.
- Up-to-date knowledge of cardiac conditions, including acute and chronic coronary syndromes, arrhythmia management, heart failure.
- Blood transfusion competency.
Person Specification
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Demonstrates good communication skills, including emotional resilience, conflict management.
- Ability to work flexibly within the confines of the team and service.
- Provides support to all members of the multidisciplinary team.
Qualifications
Essential
- First level registration NMC Registration (Adult).
- BSc In Nursing 1st degree or working towards.
- Basic Life Support.
Desirable
- ECG interpretation and arrhythmia management course.
- Acute Cardiac Conditions course.
- Long Term Cardiac Conditions course and Recognition of acutely ill patient course.
- Relevant post-registration training or qualifications in cardiology or acute care.
Experience
Essential
- Experience working autonomously and triaging patients in acute care.
- Experience in managing acute ill and deteriorating patients including sepsis.
- Venepuncture and cannulation skills.
- Ability to request and interpret initial investigations (bloods and ECGs).
- Ability to identify and manage risk.
- Computer literacy.
Desirable
- Independent working and autonomy.
- Previous post within an acute cardiology setting.
- Previous Band 6 experience.
- ILS
- Competency in ECG interpretation.
- Up-to-date knowledge of cardiac conditions, including acute and chronic coronary syndromes, arrhythmia management, heart failure.
- Blood transfusion competency.
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).
