Job Introduction
We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic nurse with a special interest in cardiology to join the Community Cardiac Rehabilitation Team in Swale (Sittingbourne and Sheppey). The successful candidate will join our multidisciplinary team, working in collaboration to motivate and inspire patients and their carers to engage in improving their health and recovery following a cardiac event.
We provide high quality care which is focused on improving patient’s health and quality of life through health education, advice on cardiovascular risk reduction, physical activity and stress management as recommended in the BACPR standards. The successful candidate would work in both inpatient and outpatient setting across phases 1-3 of the cardiac rehabilitation programme. The successful candidate will also offer support to the Cardiac Specialist Nurses who manage patients with LVSD.
This is a full time role 37.5 hours, working Monday to Friday, no weekends or bank holidays.
Main Responsibility
As a Cardiac Nurse you will:
- Be responsible for managing a defined caseload of patients, using theoretical knowledge and high levels of practical experience to formulate specialised programmes of care.
- Manage a clinical caseload of cardiac patients. Taking responsibility for direct patient care, assessing, planning, providing, and evaluating nursing care needs including monitoring, diagnostics, and investigations.
- Be responsible for teaching patients and their carers to manage their cardiac conditions to the best of their abilities. The aim being to prevent short term and long-term complications, this may be one to one or in groups.
- Communicate effectively with patients and carers to ensure a clear understanding of cardiac conditions and management. This will involve providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive information and will require developed persuasive, motivational, empathetic and reassurance skills. There will be barriers to understanding.
- Accept referrals from health professionals involved in caring for people with cardiac conditions. Responsible for formulating detailed assessments of the patient’s physical, social and psychological needs.
- Be responsible for supporting optimising drug therapy and supporting and guiding patients to make lifestyle changes.
The Ideal Candidate
The post holder will require at least 2 years post qualification experience and to have worked within the cardiac speciality. A qualification of ENB 998 or Mentorship/Qualification certificate is esstenital, including a post graduate qualification in Cardiac Conditions (certificate).
It will be desirable to have completed a Cardiac course, have BACPR parts 1 & 2 and be a Non-medical prescriber.
As part of a small dynamic team, you will have regular supervision, training, and support from highly skilled colleagues to address your learning needs and will work closely with members of the MDT. HCRG care group actively promotes CPD and provides access to funding for courses, the opportunity to participate in research and quality improvement and for career progression.
You will also need to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel.
A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes is essential.
Package Description
As a Band 6 Cardiac Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team based in Sittingbourne and Sheppey Community Hospital, North Kent.
You will feel valued as a Cardiac Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- AFC Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Plentiful on site-parking
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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