Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiology
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Monday - Friday, working days to be agreed with successful candidate), hours 08.00 - 16.00 (with some flexibility)
- Job ref
- 040-NMR834-1224
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cardiac Rehabilitation, Nevill Hall Hospital
- Town
- Abergavenny, Monmouthshire
- Salary
- 拢37,898 - 拢45,637 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/12/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Cardiac Rehabilitation Clinical Nurse Specialist
Band 6
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
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Job overview
Would you like to be part of a team who is friendly, motivated to improve patient care, and looking forward to the future?
An exciting job opportunity has arisen within the ABUHB Cardiac Rehabilitation Service for a Band 6 Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our dynamic innovative team at Nevill Hall Hospital. We are looking for someone who is motivated, enthusiastic and passionate about delivering high quality care and supporting cardiac patients following acute cardiac events and interventions, cardiac surgery, or diagnosis of heart failure. We pride ourselves on innovation and continued service improvement to ensure that cardiac patients are always in receipt of the highest standards of cardiac care.听
Do you think that you fit the requirements of this role? If so please apply, we look forward to hearing from you.听
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Main duties of the job
- To assist in providing an integrated cardiac rehabilitation (CR) service primarily for residents within ABUHB, working closely with primary and secondary care.
- To provide care for patients in a holistic manner incorporating physical and psychological care to enable them to live with a cardiac condition.
- To work as an independent and autonomous practitioner within a multidisciplinary team, ensuring that patients with Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), those recovering from cardiac surgery, ICD implantation, or diagnosed with Heart Failure, receive the highest standards of care and comprehensive support from diagnosis through every stage of their condition.
- Demonstrate excellent clinical assessment skills with a view to optimising patient鈥檚 medication.
- To provide professional support, clinical expertise and appropriate education and training to all those professionals involved in providing care to patients .
- To assist in leading and developing CHD and Heart Failure care to meet the requirements of the NSF quality requirements and NICE/ESC guidelines ensuring a continuous process of evaluation.
- Undertake an active role in promoting and carrying out research in conjunction with other health professionals 鈥 seeking to have work published.听
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
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Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020.听 Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click 鈥淎pply now鈥 to view in Trac听
Person specification
Qualifications and/or Knowledge
Essential criteria
- First level nurse RGN/RN
- Nursing Degree
- Evidence of post registration development
- Evidence of post reg cardiac course
Desirable criteria
- Health promotion training
- Post registration teaching/research module
- Supplementary or Independent Prescribing certificate
- Masters level qualification or working towards this
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post registration at band5 grade or above in cardiac nursing environment
- Experience of managing own work load
- Experience in teaching and providing professional support to nurses and other colleagues
Desirable criteria
- Experience of practice in a primary care setting
- Health promotion/education or rehabilitation experience
Values
Essential criteria
- Ability to represent the HB
- Flexible and adaptable
- Able to prioritise work and work effectively
- Can work effectively with people with diverse skills, abilities and experience
- Self- motivated proactive and innovative
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to be independently mobile to meet the requirements of the post
- Flexible approach to work
Aptitude and Abilities
Essential criteria
- Clinical competence in cardiology nursing
- Knowledge and understanding of the specialty
- Clinical leadership skills
- Fully competent with Microsoft packages Word and Excel
- Teaching and presenting skills
- Ability to work independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Patient advocacy
Desirable criteria
- Physical assessment course - Degree module
- Supplementary/Independent prescribing module
- Completion of non-medical referral for diagnostic imaging course
- Knowledge/ experience of research and audit
- Counselling skills
- Ability to speak Welsh
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Howard
- Job title
- Cardiac Rehabilitation CNS Team Lead NHH
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01873 732362
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