Job summary
Cardiology services within Gloucestershire Hospitals are moving from strength to strength. We are expanding our team to support the growing service including an on-call rota, to cover emergency primary angioplasty 24/7. This is an exciting time for Cardiology in the trust with plenty of exciting opportunities for the right candidate, Cardiology are centralizing their services in 2024 at GRH where a purpose built Coronary Care Unit and Cardiac Catheterisation labs are under development. We are now able to offer a rotational post for nurses who have an interest in Cardiology and would like to develop a broad range of Cardiology skills and experience.
Primarily working in the Cardiac Catheterisation Labs with opportunity to work across the Cardiology wards including the Coronary Care Unit and develop skills such as scrub nurse, ECG reading, ILS, looking after highly acute patients. Would you fit into our dynamic, innovative teams and help develop the service and gold standard care to our patients?
Working pattern details: Monday - Friday on-call element including weekends
Main duties of the job
You must enjoy working in a busy environment and be a true team player. You will ensure provision of high standards of expert holistic care to patients and their relatives. Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills are essential. The job can be physically demanding and you must be able to stand for long periods in the lab wearing lead protection.
You will develop and maintain a high standard of clinical skills and knowledge related to all areas of cardiology and will participate in quality improvement and development of evidence based practice within the service. You will be interested in continuing professional development and complete a program of competencies as you progress through the rotation allowing you to develop skills required for managing acutely unwell patients in Coronary Care Unit and to contribute to the 24/7 on-call PPCI service.
About us
You will join our team of experienced nurses working throughout Cardiology. The clinical environment can be challenging and rapidly changing with high acuity patients. The nursing staff work closely alongside the multidisciplinary team to provide high standards of evidence-based care. There is a strong focus on developing clinical practice and professional development. Training will be provided, and further academic study is encouraged and supported. Our Clinical Nurse Educators and teams of mentors will ensure you are supported to develop in your role.
As the cardiology service develops we are looking for innovative and new ways of working and you will be encouraged to contribute to development of policies and protocols helping to shape the service and ensure that patients remain at the focus of everything we do.
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the largest employer in the county and with over 8,000 staff, we are one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK. We offer a generous annual leave allowance, excellent bank rates, access to the excellent NHS Pension Scheme, discounts for local shops, restaurants and services, access to our health and well-being hub, access to our two on-site nurseries, flexible working options, discounted public transport, reward and recognition schemes, exercise and activity classes and membership to our popular hospital choir.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will work alongside our team of experienced nurses and have a varied job plan: You will assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for Cardiology inpatients with a range of conditions and you will be trained to scrub and circulate for a range of cardiac procedures. Your role will include taking calls directly from paramedics for patients who may be having a heart attack in the community. You will be supported to further your training and education and to develop a full range of skills used in Cardiology. You will work closely alongside the MDT to ensure all cardiology patients experience compassionate, professional, skilled and effective person-centred evidence-based holistic care from admission to discharge and that flow through Cardiology is maintained.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will work alongside our team of experienced nurses and have a varied job plan: You will assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for Cardiology inpatients with a range of conditions and you will be trained to scrub and circulate for a range of cardiac procedures. Your role will include taking calls directly from paramedics for patients who may be having a heart attack in the community. You will be supported to further your training and education and to develop a full range of skills used in Cardiology. You will work closely alongside the MDT to ensure all cardiology patients experience compassionate, professional, skilled and effective person-centred evidence-based holistic care from admission to discharge and that flow through Cardiology is maintained.
Person Specification
Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Essential
- NMC registration
- Evidence of ongoing development through professional portfolio and revalidation
- Commitment to further education and development
- Ability to use clinical reasoning skills to assess, plan, implement, evaluate and provide high quality nursing care
- Personally resilient to respond to emergency situations maintaining patient safety and supporting patient, family and staff as required
- Self-motivated, able to use own initiative and prioritise own workload and that of others
- Excellent communication skills to include maintenance of clear accurate and concise patient records
- Ability to maintain and contribute to the development of high standards of evidence based practice
Desirable
- Relevant clinical skills to include ECG interpretation, cannulation, drug administration
- post registration experience in acute clinical area
- Previous experience in cardiology or interventional Cardiology
- Experience of second operator/scrub role for interventional cardiology and pacing procedures
- Experience of mentoring/supervising others
- Involvement in quality improvement projects
Person Specification
Qualifications, Skills and Experience
Essential
- NMC registration
- Evidence of ongoing development through professional portfolio and revalidation
- Commitment to further education and development
- Ability to use clinical reasoning skills to assess, plan, implement, evaluate and provide high quality nursing care
- Personally resilient to respond to emergency situations maintaining patient safety and supporting patient, family and staff as required
- Self-motivated, able to use own initiative and prioritise own workload and that of others
- Excellent communication skills to include maintenance of clear accurate and concise patient records
- Ability to maintain and contribute to the development of high standards of evidence based practice
Desirable
- Relevant clinical skills to include ECG interpretation, cannulation, drug administration
- post registration experience in acute clinical area
- Previous experience in cardiology or interventional Cardiology
- Experience of second operator/scrub role for interventional cardiology and pacing procedures
- Experience of mentoring/supervising others
- Involvement in quality improvement projects
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).
