Job Overview
The Band 7 Arrhythmia Specialist Nurse plays a pivotal role in the delivery, development, and continuous improvement of high-quality arrhythmia care across the patient pathway—from initial presentation in primary care to specialist interventions in tertiary settings. The post holder will work as a key member of the multidisciplinary cardiology team, with a particular focus on improving diagnostic accuracy, expediting treatment timelines, and streamlining referral processes for patients with arrhythmias and acute coronary syndromes (ACS).
As a senior nurse, you will be responsible for developing, coordinating, and evaluating patient-centred services aimed at improving access and outcomes for individuals with complex cardiac rhythm disturbances. A core responsibility will involve leading efforts to enhance clinical pathways that span the full continuum of care, working in collaboration with GPs, acute clinicians, specialist tertiary centres, and community teams to promote a more integrated and efficient approach to arrhythmia management.
Your role will involve active participation in multidisciplinary team (MDT) meetings, case conferences, and service planning forums to ensure that arrhythmia care is fully integrated and responsive to the needs of the population served.
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and motivated nurse specialist to take a lead role in shaping the future of arrhythmia care at Wexham Park Hospital.
Main duties of the job
To provide clinical leadership for a defined group of patients. You will be responsible for assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating safe and high quality patient care.
As a Clinician Experienced In Caring For Patients With Arrhythmia, It Is Envisaged That The Post Holder Will Initially Focus On Developing Robust Systems Between Primary, Secondary And Tertiary Care Centres. Areas For Development (dependent On Existing Services/ Local Service Need) May Include
* Assisting to establish and participating in the running of rapid access clinic and clinics where necessary and developing integrated care pathways to aid management
* Assisting to establish and participating in the running of clinics dedicated to the management of Arrhythmia
* Undertaking other clinic sessions across the network, including running of preadmission clinics for patients undergoing elective procedures, new patient and follow up clinics
* Establishing appropriate support services for patients with long-term conditions and ensuring appropriate patient information is available regarding the spectrum of arrhythmia conditions, investigations and treatments
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Current First Level Nursing and Midwifery Council Registration or other relevant professional qualification dependent on discipline
* Recognised teaching certificate i.e. ENB 998/730/mentorship
* Advanced Life Support Certificate
* Have post graduate qualification in Clinical assessment skills in medicine.
Desirable criteria
* MSc in advanced Practice
Experience
Essential criteria
* Significant experience at Band 6 in Cardiology
* Substantial experience of teaching and supervising of junior staff
* Substantial experience within cardiology services
* Relevant experience inrelation to arrhythmia management
Desirable criteria
* Proven management of teams within the healthcare setting
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Good time keeping and communication skills
* Teaching skills
* Able to work as an effective team member
* Awareness of current professional nursing issues
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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