Job overview
We are seeking enthusiastic and highly motivated nurses with experience in interventional cardiology to join our committed and friendly team. You will be working in a fabulous new state of the art cardiac facility where we are continuing to expand the services we offer to our patients. You will need to demonstrate leadership skills and initiative whilst providing specialist care to our patients.
Situated within the Cardiology Department we run two Cardiac Cath Labs and Day case Units that provide highly specialist care to our patients including: Coronary Angiography, PCI, Complex PCI and CTO. Basic and Complex Pacing (ICD, CRT, sICD & Micra) plus a Electrophysiology service. We also deliver a 24-hour Emergency PPCI Service which you will support as part of the On-Call team.
Main duties of the job
1. High level of knowledge and clinical ability in all aspects of the Cath Lab environment including acting as a scrub nurse/ circulating nurse and admitting/discharging patients pre and post procedure.
2. Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills, continuously building relationships with the wider multi-disciplinary team.
3. Ambition and drive to help develop the service whilst maintaining excellent standards of care.
4. The ability to support, supervise and assess others including student nurses and new recruits in their learning whilst demonstrating strong leadership skills.
5. Working as part of the MDT, ensuring the smooth running of services and ensuring efficient lab utilisation.
6. To act as a shift coordinator, delegating tasks effectively within the team, flexibility and responsiveness of the team whilst retaining the professional responsibility of appropriate delegation.
7. Encouragement to enhance your knowledge and skills and support to attend National Conferences and training.
8. To ensure that you and the staff you supervise maintain contemporaneous, accurate and evaluative patient records with clinically reasoned action plans and evidence that these plans have been enacted, evaluated and revised if necessary.
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person specification
Training & Qualifications
Essential criteria
9. Professional UK registration e.g. NMC, HPC
10. Degree level education or equivalent knowledge and skills gained through any combination of alternative study, or employment experience
11. Post registration qualification(s) in field of expertise or equivalent experience
12. Level 3 Certificate/Diploma in Management and Leadership, or equivalent eg NVQ 3
Desirable criteria
13. Additional Post graduate learning in specialist field including master’s degree or working towards
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
14. Evidence of significant post registration clinical work experience
15. Experience of staff supervision and mentorship including, employee relations, performance, conduct and training needs analysis
Desirable criteria
16. Awareness of local and national agenda within the specialty.
Skills & Ability
Essential criteria
17. Clinical Skills appropriate to the relevant specialty
18. Advanced communication skills including to communicate complex, sensitive or confidential information in an appropriate manner; to liaise effectively; to understand and disseminate multifaceted information
Desirable criteria
19. Highly specialist clinical skills across the relevant specialty
ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
Essential criteria
20. Able to carry out moderate to intense physical effort frequently throughout the working day and to carry out concurrent activities
21. Able to support the Primary PCI On-Call Service.