Cardiology Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

Cardiac Sciences at Imperial NHS Healthcare Trust are seeking highly motivated and dynamic individuals to come and join our growing team of Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Advanced Nurse Practitioners and play a leading role in service transformation. This is an exciting opportunity to deliver patient centred care at an advanced level whilst being at the forefront of clinical practice within the Trust.

You will be an integral member of the multi-disciplinary team and be responsible for taking part in patient ward rounds, clerking new admissions and performing patient discharges. The team conduct advanced clinical assessments, examinations, and diagnostic reasoning for patients with a range of cardiac conditions.

The post holders will be required to prescribe medications and hold your non-medical prescriber qualification. You will alongside the team follow clinical management plans and abide by your NMC Professional Code of Conduct and Trust Policies. You will support and work alongside the nursing teams within the acute settings.

You will be a role model and leader for other staff, with the ability to teach, influence and develop clinical practice across the service. You will have the opportunity to actively engage with research and use evidence-based strategies to improve and enhance patient care. You will be expected to initiate and lead clinical audits to monitor and improve standards of care.

Main duties of the job

Advanced clinical practice embodies the ability to manage clinical care in partnership with patients, families and carers.  It includes the analysis and synthesis of complex problems across a range of settings, enabling innovative solutions to enhance people’s experience and improve outcomes.

• Review and prescribe medication in a timely manner ensuring it is within own level of knowledge and competence and within the scope of the Trusts Policy for non-medical prescribing qualification formulating of discharge documentation including medications and onward follow up care.
• To review urgent patient referrals for cardiac patients within the trust and coordinate the urgent referrals from other NHS organisations. Communicating with the Senior Registers and Pre assessment team to manage and plan the patient in preparation for surgery.
• To review urgent patient referrals for cardiac patients within the trust and coordinate the urgent referrals from other NHS organisations. Communicating with the Senior Registers and Pre assessment team to manage and plan the patient in preparation for surgery.

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.