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Job overview

We have a rare and exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Nurse with extensive experience in Cardiology to lead to our committed and friendly team. You will be working in a fabulous new state of the art cardiac facility where we continue to expand the services we offer to our patients. You will need to demonstrate proven leadership skills and initiative whilst providing specialist care to our patients.  

Situated within the Cardiology Department we run two Cardiac Cath Labs and Daycase Units that provide highly specialist care to our patients including: Coronary Angiography, PCI Complex PCI and CTO. Basic and Complex Pacing (ICD, CRT, sICD & Micra) plus a Electrophysiology service. We also deliver a 24-hour Emergency PPCI Service which you will support as part of our On-Call team.

Main duties of the job

What we look for:

• Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills, maintaining strong working relationships with other teams within Cardiology and beyond.
• Able to provide effective leadership and professional development to the team.
• A high level of skill and expertise in all aspects of acute cardiology and cath lab environment, able to provide support and guidance as required.
• Ambition and drive to help develop the service whilst maintaining excellent standards of care.

What we Offer:

• The opportunity to work within an experienced and knowledgeable Cardiology Team where you will be encouraged and supported to develop.
• Encouragement to enhance your knowledge and skills further and support to attend National Conferences and training.
• Joining an established service at a time when we are rapidly expanding to meet the growing needs of our population.
• Working in brand new state of the art spacious Cath Labs and a 10-bedded day case unit.
• Your life outside HHFT is important, and the Trust are happy to consider applications with flexible working patterns that cater to individual requirements; this can be discussed at interview

Working for our organisation

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.