Cardiac Prevention & Rehabilitation Nurse Specialist

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced cardiac nurse to join our Cardiac Health and Rehabilitation programme based in Hanwell Health Center as part of the Imperial Healthcare Cardiovascular Health Services. The Service provides care to patients who have been discharged from hospital and are attending the cardiac health and rehabilitation programme. It includes patients with cardiac disease, heart failure as well as those with ICDs.

You will be a Registered Nurse with a minimum of 5 years post registration experience including a least 2 years cardiac experience at senior level preferably in both cardiology and cardiothoracics. You will also have experience of working within a cardiac rehabilitation setting or be very enthusiastic about this area of work. You will be self motivated, possess good organisational skills, and be able to work alone and as part of a team.

For further details and to arrange an informal visit please contact Eleanor Murphy, Lead Nurse for the Imperial Cardiovascular Health service, on 020 8383 0229

Please note that all short-listed applicants will be contacted by e-mail, and applicants are advised to check their NHS Jobs e-mail accounts regularly. If you have not been contacted within 2 weeks of the closing date you should assume you have not been short-listed.

Main duties of the job

• Support the cardiac rehab team day to day to ensure the programme runs effectively and efficiently
• Provide in-patient services when required to identify and recruit patients and their families.
• Assess the risk factors and needs of patients with cardiovascular disease and plan an agreed package of care with the patient
• In line with the cardiac rehab protocol undertake full nursing assessment, implementation and evaluation of patient, and families/carers. to provide specific expert nursing care, advice, support and counselling where necessary.
• To communicate complex information following assessments and analyse information which is sensitive to patients/carers and health professionals.
• Support the supervised exercise sessions of the cardiac rehab programme and deliver health education sessions as required.
• Attend Multidisciplinary Team Meeting(s), and advise it’s members and those of the wider health care community, to enable the provision of high quality patient care. This might include advice on physical care, symptom control, care planning, social and psychological care, communication, resources and equipment.
• Work with medical colleagues in ensuring that appropriate investigations are performed to complete the patients’ treatments and that families are fully informed and understand the purpose for these.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.