Patient Educator-Cardiac Devices

Job overview

At present, University Hospitals of North Midlands is unable to offer visa sponsorship for Band 2 to Band 4 roles, as these positions do not meet the minimum salary and skill thresholds required under UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) regulations.

The Cardiac Physiology department at IUHNM are seeking to appoint a patient educator to work within the cardiac device team.

This role principally involves communicating with patients who awaiting a device or have a device that requires ongoing monitoring and surveillance.

The role will be involve working in the cardiac rhythm management team, delivering services to patients with pacemakers, and implantable devices ( including implantable loop recorders).

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the job involve communicating with patients and families to provide objective education in regards to device therapy to aid decision making and informed consent. I addition, the role involves ongoing patient education in respect to remote monitoring and disconnected monitoring.

The role requires effective working relationships with the large multidisciplinary team working the cardiac devices service at UHNM, this involves consultants. specialist nurses., senior cardiac physiologists and the wider nursing and allied health professional team.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Patient Educator will work alongside the Cardiac device team and cardiac devices specialist nurse to educate patients about implantable devices at the point of referral, whilst in hospital awaiting treatment and provide post implant education and support. The aim of this role is to ensure patients receive all relevant information required about their heart failure condition, device therapy, implant procedure, living with a device and how the device will benefit them. The patient educator will also be available to speak with patients and answer questions or escalate to the relevant person when questions are too complex. Additionally, the device educators will develop the technical expertise to support the ILR implant service at UHNM. They will form part of the large multi-disciplinary team, delivering care for device patients in order to support high quality and effective service delivery.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.