Job overview
An exciting opportunity has become available for an enthusiastic, highly motivated, and compassionate senior cardiac nurse to join our established ICC specialist team. We are looking for an experienced cardiac nurse with an interest in ICC’s and cardiac genetics, looking to advance their specialist cardiac knowledge, to develop skills in interpreting cardiac investigations, and to develop an expert understanding of ICC’s and genomic medicine.
The Oxford ICC team is a growing and supportive team with close links with research and a forward-thinking mindset. Professional development and career development will be encouraged through formal and informal teaching. We are a small multidisciplinary team consisting of genetic counsellors, a genomic associate, specialist nurses, cardiologists, a geneticist and administration staff. We support flexible working and are passionate about the OUH Trust vision of ‘Delivering Compassionate Excellence’.
This is a substantive post.
Main duties of the job
The Oxford Inherited Cardiac Conditions (ICC) Service provides multidisciplinary cardiology care and genetic counselling for those families at risk of or affected by ICC’s. Our service is run in conjunction with the University of Oxford Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, the OUH Clinical Genetics Service and the OUH Cardiothoracic directorate.
The service runs specialist MDT family centred clinics. The post holder will work closely with Consultants, Specialist Registrars, Genetic Counsellors, specialist nursing teams across the directorate, cardiac physiologists, medical staff, radiographers, operational service managers, matron and a team of MDT staff within the Cardiothoracic directorate to provide clinical support, education, and input to the development of patient pathways.
The post holder will work autonomously providing professional specialist nursing and manage a patient-centred nursing workload, working with the team to develop services including nurse led clinics, telephone clinics and provide clinical and psychosocial support to patients and their families living with ICC’s.
Working for our organisation
Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.
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