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Job overview

We are looking to recruit a Chest Pain Specialist Nurse to join our established  rapid access chest pain team supporting the North East Sector of the Northern Care Alliance.

The expectation of the successful candidate is to work autonomously as a specialist nurse practitioner to provide highly specialist assessment of patients presenting to the Rapid Access Chest Pain service with stable chest pain to facilitate early diagnosis, investigation, and treatments.

In mainly a Non-Medical clinic setting, formulate a diagnosis, order, and interpret cardiology investigations and develop a patient management plan in line with local and national guidelines underpinned by evidence-based practice.

Work flexibly between the acute trust and community and collaborate with the wider multidisciplinary team. Liaise with your Cardiologist clinical support supervisor in partnership with the chest pain team.

The post holder will hold a Non-Medical Prescriber qualification and work within Scope of Practice, a L7 clinical assessment qualification is expected.

Engage in training and development, imparting specialist knowledge, advice and training in relation to the assessment and management of chest pain due to underlying coronary artery disease and other cardiology conditions and presentations.

You will be required to actively support research, audit, triage, training, and the development of the Chest Pain Service.

Main duties of the job

Contribute to the development and co-ordination of the

Chest Pain specialist nurse service collaboratively with managers.

Lead Rapid Access Chest Pain clinics using highly specialised,

advanced clinical consultation skills, assessment and physical

examination skills to establish a diagnosis of patients presenting

to the Rapid Access Chest Pain Clinic with Chest Pain/ CHD/ ACS. 

Lead Chest Pain clinics and subsequently manage the cardiac patient

through the patient pathway, referring onto other specialists as

required.

Possess highly specialised technological skill to interpret results of

invasive and non-invasive investigations. 

Be responsible and accountable to interpret and act on clinical

information in the form of invasive and non- invasive

investigation results. 

Non –Medical prescribing within Scope of Practice, professional

legislation, and NCA Policy. 

Evaluate patient’s condition and response to the therapeutic

interventions and treatment modalities and modify the plan of care

for optimal patient outcomes. 

Responsible for managing a patient caseload of those patients

requiring follow up care and terminating the care episode following

safe discharge of the patient from the Chest Pain service.

Audit practice as required.

Contribute to research projects as requested.

Provide education and training supporting the multidisciplinary team

in the management of patients who present with chest pain, have

underlying coronary heart disease or differential diagnosis or ACS. 

Working for our organisation

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester.  Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.