South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Cardiothoracic Audit Nurse/Physiologist/Radiographer/ODP

The closing date is 29 July 2025

Job summary

Do you fancy a change? Do you want to do something different whilst still using your clinical skills and experience? Do you want to be part of a unique team monitoring and evaluating patient outcomes and improving patient care?

An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Cardiothoracic Audit Department due to a recent post becoming vacant.

We are now looking to recruit a part time Band 5 Audit Nurse/AHP to work as part of our team.

The purpose of the role is to support the Cardiothoracic Audit Lead nurses and team to develop, implement and monitor an agreed programme of clinical audit and quality improvement with a focus on National Cardiac Audit requirements.

This role will be based at the James Cook University Hospital and will fulfil all tasks and work as part of a team to meet the needs of the service.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for individual who is committed to make a difference to patient care.

The successful candidate will have a professional qualification in health care e.g. RN or AHP and currently registered with a professional body.

Collect and validate data for any of the national clinical audits and exported registries that apply to the Cardiothoracic and Cardiology Services (Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia)

Work collaboratively with all members of MDT to ensure that data is exported to the essential NICOR databases to achieve national data quality and completeness standards within the submission deadlines set by NICOR and NHS England

Support the Audit Lead Nurse in the delivery of the national audit agenda within the Cardiothoracic Services Directorate

Support the Cardiothoracic audit team to ensure excellence in audit support for the Cardiothoracic and Vascular Care Services

This post may close at sufficient applicants.

About us

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our staff in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:

o Your Leadership Impacto Leading Your Team to Successo Service Improvement for Beginnerso Developing your Service Improvement Skills

The leadership and improvement programme aims to:o Explore leadership within the NHSo Promote Trust values and behaviourso Develop your leadership effectiveness and skillso Equip you with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.

After you complete these three and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer further in-house courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.

Details

Date posted

16 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

328-CARDIO-7311909

Job locations

The James Cook University Hospital

Marton Road

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW


Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) attached for main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Good Microsoft Office skills
  • Previous experience of participating in a service improvement or clinical audit project
  • Good Cardiothoracic and/or Cardiology clinical knowledge

Desirable

  • Basic data analysis experience
  • Experience with Cardiothoracic/Cardiology national audit data
  • Excellent Microsoft Office skills including Microsoft Excel and Access

Qualifications and Training

Essential

  • Professional qualification in health care e.g. RN or AHP
  • Currently Registered with a health care professional body

Desirable

  • Service improvement course or equivalent
  • Excel training

Experience

Essential

  • Cardiothoracic and/or Cardiology experience

Desirable

  • Experience of working in a clinical audit team
  • Previous NHS experience

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Ability to plan own work to enable required deadlines to be met
  • Excellent verbal and communication skills
  • Professional and diplomatic attitude to work
  • Maintains confidentiality at all times
  • Positive and forward-thinking attitude
  • Attention to detail
  • An understanding of our Trust values

Desirable

  • Previous experience of presenting
Person Specification

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

  • Good Microsoft Office skills
  • Previous experience of participating in a service improvement or clinical audit project
  • Good Cardiothoracic and/or Cardiology clinical knowledge

Desirable

  • Basic data analysis experience
  • Experience with Cardiothoracic/Cardiology national audit data
  • Excellent Microsoft Office skills including Microsoft Excel and Access

Qualifications and Training

Essential

  • Professional qualification in health care e.g. RN or AHP
  • Currently Registered with a health care professional body

Desirable

  • Service improvement course or equivalent
  • Excel training

Experience

Essential

  • Cardiothoracic and/or Cardiology experience

Desirable

  • Experience of working in a clinical audit team
  • Previous NHS experience

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Ability to plan own work to enable required deadlines to be met
  • Excellent verbal and communication skills
  • Professional and diplomatic attitude to work
  • Maintains confidentiality at all times
  • Positive and forward-thinking attitude
  • Attention to detail
  • An understanding of our Trust values

Desirable

  • Previous experience of presenting

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).

Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The James Cook University Hospital

Marton Road

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW


Employer's website

https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

The James Cook University Hospital

Marton Road

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW


Employer's website

https://www.southtees.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Cardiothoracic Audit Lead Nurse

Lesley Day

lesley.day5@nhs.net

01642850850

Details

Date posted

16 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£31,049 to £37,796 a year per annum (pro rata)

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

328-CARDIO-7311909

Job locations

The James Cook University Hospital

Marton Road

Middlesbrough

TS4 3BW


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