Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Cardiac Rehab Nurse
The closing date is 29 August 2025
An exciting opportunity has become available within the Cardiac Rehab team.
The post holder will work as a specialist nurse within the cardiology team contributing to the development, delivery and evaluation of a multidisciplinary, menu-based cardiac rehabilitation service. In addition, the post holder will participate in the development and delivery of education and training for other health professionals caring for patients with cardiovascular disease
Main duties of the job
Assessment of individuals' physical, psychological and social needs requiring advanced clinical reasoning, investigative and analytical skills.
Planning, implementation and evaluation of specialised individual plans of care. This necessitates high levels of autonomy and advocacy.
To work within trust wide clinical guidelines, policies and procedures, including cardiac rehabilitation service
Making appropriate and timely referrals to other health care professionals and specialist services.
Establishing early involvement and continuing support of patients and their families/carers, providing planned and spontaneous specialised advice, teaching and instruction to optimise rehabilitation potential and promote understanding of condition.
Providing and evaluating specialist input to nurse/therapist led clinics and out-patient sessions, including exercise, education, relaxation and anxiety management components. This will include risk stratification, exercise prescription and leading/facilitating patient groups in the above components.
Use of recognised outcome measures, assessment tools and advanced clinical skills to evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter interventions as required.
Requesting appropriate investigations and the analysis, interpretation and comparison of the findings.
About us
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job
Job responsibilities
To participate in the development, delivery and evaluation of a comprehensive programme of cardiac rehabilitation through all the defined phases.
Demonstrating appropriate practice in the care management of patients referred to the cardiac rehabilitation service across all phases.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse
* Relevant post registration qualification/training and experience
* Evidence of recent CPD
* ILS provider
* Recognised teaching qualification or equivalent experience
Experience
* Relevant post registration experience within Cardiology
* Recent experience within an acute cardiac setting
* Multidisciplinary working.
* Experience within cardiac rehabilitation
* Previous experience of supervising less experienced staff
* Experience of Clinical audit and evaluation
Knowlage and Skills
* Awareness of the wider local and national agenda/policies
* Ability to relate theory to practice.
* Ability to work autonomously.
* Decision making involving complex facts/situations
* Specialist knowledge of Cardiac Rehabilitation
* Physical examination skills
Personal skills
* Ability to work independently or as part of a team.
* Excellent team working skills
* Time management, prioritisation and organisational skills
* Flexible approach to working.
* Motivated
* Conscientious with a mature attitude to work
* Working within scope and role.
* Ability to travel independently between places of work
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.
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Luton and Dunstable university Hospital NHS Tust
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