Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
About
Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.
As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.
As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.
By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.
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Key details
Location
SiteGloucestershire Royal HospitalAddressGreat Western RoadTownGloucesterPostcodeGL1 3NNMajor / Minor RegionGloucestershire
Contract type & working pattern
ContractPermanentHoursFull time hours per week
Salary
Salary£37,338 - £44,962 (pro rata if part time)Salary periodYearlyGrade(Band 6)
Specialty
Main areaCardiology
Join us at an exciting time for Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust We have an ambitious plan for our journey to Outstanding and are looking for aspirational, committed individuals to join us, making a real difference to both staff and patients.
As a former winner of England for excellence award: Tourism destination of the year, the beautiful city of Gloucester and the scenic regency spa town of Cheltenham are fantastic places to work and live.
As a hospital Trust we are currently involved in over 100 clinical trials and studies, whilst also providing acute elective and specialist services to a population of over 620,000.
By joining Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust new colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome and a future full of opportunities and support.
Job Overview
The Cardiac Catheter Labs at Gloucestershire Hospitals are moving from strength to strength. We are expanding our team to support the growing service including on-call emergency primary angioplasty 24/7. Would you like to be part of this exciting developing service?
We are seeking an experienced nurse with a strong clinical background who is enthusiastic to further develop their clinical skills and utilize their knowledge, experience, and leadership skills. Working alongside the Cath Lab team you will contribute to the provision of excellent evidence-based patient care.
Advert
You must enjoy working in a busy environment and be a true team player. You will ensure provision of high standards of expert holistic care to patients and their relatives. Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills are essential. The job can be physically demanding and you must be able to stand for long periods in the lab wearing lead protection. You will develop and maintain a high standard of clinical skills and knowledge related to interventional cardiology. You will participate in quality improvement and development of evidence based practice within the department.
Working for our organisation
You will join our team of experienced nurses working in our Cardiac Cath Labs and recovery day unit. The clinical environment can be challenging and rapidly changing with high acuity patients. The nursing staff work closely alongside the multidisciplinary team to provide high standards of evidence-based care. There is a strong focus on developing clinical practice and professional development. Training will be provided, and further academic study is encouraged and supported.
As the service develops we are looking for innovative and new ways of working and you will be encouraged to contribute to development of policies and protocols helping to shape the service and ensure that patients remain at the focus of everything we do.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
Our team of experienced nurses have a varied job plan: they are trained to scrub and circulate for all procedures, provide pre and post-procedure recovery care, patient education and take calls directly from paramedics for patients who may be having a heart attack in the community. We provide emergency, acute and elective procedures for patients including primary angioplasty (PPCI), cardiac devices, diagnostic angiography and forms of invasive assessment of cardiac function, physiology and structure within the Cath labs. As part of the Cath Lab team you work closely with physiologists, radiographers and doctors. Our elective service runs Monday to Friday. We provide a PPCI service on-call rota to provide a 24/7 emergency primary angioplasty service. The role will involve on-call commitment at least once a week.
The health and wellbeing of our staff and patients remains the priority of the Trust. Vaccination remains the best chance we have of conquering COVID and the Trust encourages everyone to take up this offer.
Please note, this vacancy may close as soon as sufficient applications have been received, so please apply as soon as possible if you are interested. The Recruitment Team are unable to accept any applications after the position has closed on NHS Jobs.
Committed to safeguarding our community
If applicable for the post, all successful candidates will be required to pay for their own Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check. The cost will be £29 (standard checks) or £46 (enhanced checks), and will be recovered through two instalments from the candidate's salary. Please contact [email protected] for further information.
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Applicant requirements
warning You must have appropriate UK professional registration. info 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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
NMC registration
Evidence of ongoing development through professional portfolio and revalidation
Commitment to further education and development
Desirable criteria
Relevant clinical skills to include ECG interpretation, cannulation, drug administration, ILS, management of conscious sedation
Experience
Essential criteria
Post registration experience in acute clinical area
Desirable criteria
Previous experience in cardiology or interventional Cardiology
Experience of second operator/ scrub role for interventional cardiology and pacing procedures
Experience of mentoring/ supervising others
Involvement in quality improvement projects
Knowledge & Skills
Essential criteria
Ability to use clinical reasoning skills to assess, plan, implement, evaluate and provide high quality nursing care
Personally resilient to respond to emergency situations maintaining patient safety and supporting patient, family and staff as required
Self-motivated, able to use own initiative and prioritise own workload and that of others
Excellent communication skills to include maintenance of clear accurate and concise patient records
Ability to maintain and contribute to the development of high standards of evidence based practice
Documents
Job Description (, 1.0)PDFMB
About Gloucestershire Hospitals (, 187.2)PDFKB
Further details / informal visits contact
NameJudith WilliamsJob titleSisterEmail address [email protected]Telephone number
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