Job summary
- Main area
- Acute Cardiology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 381-ME-6412655
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWB NHS Trust
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Cardiac Catheter Lab/Cardiology Day Case Unit Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 5
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity for a dynamic individual with high levels of initiative, who enjoys the challenges of a fast paced environment with continuous opportunities to learn.
Join our team of nurses within our 2 cardiac catheterisation labs and our cardiology day case unit, with capacity for 12 patients.
Our cardiac catheterisation labs serve both acute and elective patients, and provide an excellent 24/7 Primary PCI service.
The cardiology inpatient wards at City hospital have a 17 bedded female CCU and a 20 bedded male CCU.
You shoulld be passionate about the speciality and demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills. A commitment to learning and quality improvement to support patient safety is a must. In return you will be given the opportunity to develop your clinical skills and knowledge and be supported by a knowledgable team, we have an in house Professional Development Nurse to further support you.
Main duties of the job
Rotate between cardaic cath labs and cardiology day case unit, be involved in pre and post procedure care.
Provide direct care to patients undergoing a varierty of procedures in cath lab, such as angiograms/angioplasty, pacing, ptmc.
Care for patients undergoing TOE and Cardioversion.
To particiapte in an on call rota
Develop scrub nurse skills
Promote team work within a multidisciplinary team.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be responsible for the assessment of care needs the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care without direct supervision.
To be responsible for ensuring patient care and safety are evaluated whilst on duty.
To supervise the work of student nurses and support workers.
To participate in the on call service, after appropriate training has been
undertaken.
To undertake administration of prescribed medication and supervision of
patient’s self-medication.
To be professionally accountable for own actions during working shift.
To comply with NMC and local standards for record keeping.
To recognise, review and report patient’s/client’s condition and any changes to it to senior members of staff within the multidisciplinary team.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- nmc registered
- Qualified nurse
Desirable criteria
- ILS
- Evidence of personal development
- Cardiac Cath Lab/Cardiology nursing experience
- Teaching and assessing
professional interest
Desirable criteria
- interest in cardiology
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise McReynolds
- Job title
- Senior Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 507 4204
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