B6 Clinical Nurse Specialist - Heart Valve Team

Job summary

To work as a Clinical Nurse Specialist- Heart valve nurse, as part of the multidisciplinary Cardiology team. The post holder will be responsible for clinically assessing patients, planning and delivering care and treatment. This will include the patients on a Structural and TAVI pathway. The post holder will manage the patient pathway from the point of referral through admission or transfer to Royal Papworth Hospital. They will ensure patients are assessed daily, referred for medical opinion if necessary and progress through their pathway in a timely way. They will liaise with medical colleagues to ensure effective nurse led discharge.

Main duties of the job

Act as a role model, both in clinical expertise and clinical leadership.

Use advanced clinical assessment skills in addition to nursing / practitioner skills to ensure patients are safely prepared for procedures, reviewed daily and treatment plans are followed in a timely way. This will include contributing to differential diagnosis and holistic assessment prior to a decision to pursue a treatment pathway.

Working with medical and managerial colleagues, actively contribute to the prioritisation of the Cath Lab list

Request and or carry out appropriate investigation, interventions and treatment as required.

Gain consent for patients undergoing elective cardiology procedures within Royal Papworth Hospital and NMC / HCPC guidelines.

Liaise with multidisciplinary team to ensure patients are ready for discharge or referred appropriately and in a timely manner for on-going care if required.

Assist new and junior staff in gaining competencies and confidence with clinical decision making.

With the ward teams, be responsive to the changing physical, psychological and emotional needs of the patient.

Take responsibility for own decision making recognising limitations and following Royal Papworth Hospital and NMC / HCPC guidelines referring to medical colleagues where necessary.

Job responsibilities

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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