Community Cardiac Rehabilitation Specialist Nurse (Development Post)

Community Cardiac Rehabilitation Specialist Nurse (Development Post) NHS AfC: Band 6-7 Main area: Cardiac Rehabilitation. Grade: NHS AfC Band 6-7. Contract: Permanent. Hours: 30 hours per week (Mon Fri , may change for annual leave). Part time. Flexible working.

Site: Boston House Town Wigan.
Salary: £38,682 - £54,710 per annum pro rata.
Salary period: Yearly.
Job ref: CM.

Choose Well - Choose WWL Job overview We are seeking a highly motivated individual with excellent interpersonal and communication skills to work within the Ashton, Leigh and Wigan Community Cardiac Rehabilitation Service. Candidates must be committed to supporting patients with a diagnosis of myocardial infarction as part of Long Term Conditions management. The successful candidate will join a multidisciplinary team, committed to partnership working within community services.

We welcome applications from nurses with significant post registration NHS experience. A clear development pathway from Band 6 to Band 7 is available.

This is a part time role (30 hours/week). Service hours are Monday to Friday . As the role involves visiting patient homes & clinics across the Trust every day, postholders must state in their application if they have access to a car with suitable business insurance. If you do not mention this in your application, you will not be considered for the post.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Be professionally accountable for maintaining standards and professional practice as set by Trust Policies, the NMC Code of Professional Standards of Practice and Behaviour, and relevant professional guidelines.
• Work autonomously to manage a caseload of complex cardiac patients in a variety of settings, achieving and maintaining regional and national targets throughout the patient's care episode.
• Become an independent prescriber and prescribe evidence based medicines within the appropriate scope of practice.
• Complete the service competency framework to a proficient standard before promotion to Band 7 is considered.
• Provide a planned and unplanned responsive service to maintain routine and anticipatory care for heart disease patients.
• Provide specialist nursing advice to support individualized care to patients and relatives/carers without supervision and give peer to peer support to the wider teams.
• Carry out a variety of physical observations using a range of equipment, record and report and raise exceptions as required.
• Ensure patient pathways are in place to increase referrals to cardiac rehabilitation, ICD/CRT device therapies, palliative care and to cardiology specialists.
• Provide mentorship and leadership support for staff developing their roles within the team.
• Collaborate with the service lead on ongoing development of policies and protocols to enhance service delivery.
• Maintain and update personal clinical expertise in accordance with the professional regulatory body.
• Monitor the quality of nursing care and act on audit information to achieve agreed standards.

Planning and Organisational Duties

• Implement specialist advice and demonstrate autonomous evidence based treatments to improve quality of care.
• Assess and evaluate inbound referrals, accepting or declining according to the service specification.
• Triage referrals based on a needs based approach.
• Clinically assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual care plans in patients' homes or community clinics.
• Manage individual patient caseload and support the wider team in safe discharge.
• Maintain electronic or written documentation in line with professional registration requirements and Trust standards.
• Lead clinical leadership initiatives and ensure high standard holistic, patient centred care.
• Engage service users and incorporate feedback from user groups, open days and support groups.
• Adhere to the Trust's framework for Clinical Governance.
• Identify clinical risk and act in accordance with the Trust's Risk Management policy.
• Provide venepuncture as needed, in line with Trust policies.
• Support patients and families managing coronary heart disease and heart failure, including palliative care referrals.
• Facilitate cost effective specialist service through monitoring, audit and quality initiatives.

Communications and Key Working Relationships

• Provide visible and accessible professional nursing leadership.
• Work confidently within multidisciplinary teams and across partnerships.
• Participate in regular multidisciplinary team meetings, clinics and patient reviews.
• Maintain seamless service with key stakeholders to deliver highest quality care.
• Uphold the Trust's shared values and promote the corporate image of the Trust.
• Advocate for patients, challenge poor practice and support safety and safeguarding.
• Promote healthy lifestyle and facilitate positive change through motivational interviewing.
• Manage communications within and external to the team, recording minutes and actions.
• Investigate complaints and ensure incidents are reported and lessons learned.
• Provide cover for absent colleagues as needed.
• Participate in departmental projects, audits and quality initiatives.

Person specification Qualifications

• Registered Adult Nurse on the NMC register.
• Post registration qualification in a relevant specialism or professional knowledge, supplemented by specialist experience and short courses to degree/masters level.
• Recognised Teaching/Mentorship module or equivalent experience.
• NMC registered Non Medical Prescriber (V300) or willingness to undertake.
• Working towards or holding a Masters qualification.
• Advanced communication skills training.
• Motivational and cognitive behavioural therapy short courses.
• Clinical Examination and Diagnostics module.

Experience

• Significant post registration experience in cardiology or cardiothoracic nursing.
• Experience with Cardiac Rehabilitation patients.
• Ability to revalidate as required by the NMC.
• Positive multi agency working experience.
• Experience and enthusiasm for developing educational programmes and teaching/assessing and supervising others in a clinical setting.

Skills

• Excellent advanced communication and interpersonal skills.
• Positive change agent.
• Ability to adapt to changing needs of service.
• Ability to work autonomously, manage and prioritise workload, supervise/appraise and assess junior staff.
• Competent in a range of clinical skills and expanded practices.
• Evidence of ability to compile reports and documents for internal/external communication.
• IT literate and champion new IT systems to enhance patient consultation experience.
• Report writing skills.

Knowledge

• Extensive knowledge of national policies and standards.
• Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care.
• High level specialist knowledge of own patient group.
• Comprehensive understanding of multi agency working.
• Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance.
• Understanding and experience of safeguarding principles for staff, patients and carers at risk.

Additional

• Ability to work a varied shift pattern where required.
• Ability to travel across Trust independently.
• Confidence to act as patient advocate and challenge poor practice.
• Ability to act on own initiative.
• Speak English to an appropriate standard relevant to the role.

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Contact Name: Holly Vincent Dootson
Job title: Cardiology Advanced Clinical Practitioner
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Alternate contact: Sarah Burrows

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