Arrhythmia Nurse Specialist

NHS; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job description

An opportunity has arisen to join our Arrhythmia Nurse Specialist Team at Salisbury Hospital. We are looking for an experienced, motivated, and committed Senior Cardiology Nurse with a passion for improving the experience and clinical outcomes of our patients, and who inspires others to provide excellent patient care.

This role can be a trainee position depending on experience. It will be predominantly outpatient based providing clinical assessment and diagnosis of suspected arrhythmia and planning long term treatment. This will be supported with MDT when required.

This role also incorporates the outpatient DC Cardioversion service and pre assessment and support for patients with complex devices or requiring Cardiac ablation.

As an Arrhythmia Nurse you will deliver a comprehensive support service for patients suffering from cardiac arrhythmias ensuring evidence based individualised care, support, and education.

Main duties of the job

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

About us

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated "Good" by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as: Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Person Specification

Education, Qualifications and Training

• Mentorship / teaching and assessment qualification
• Evidence of post graduate study
• Post graduate qualification in history taking and patient assessment
• Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification
• ECG interpretation course

Experience

• At least 2 years experience at band 6 within Cardiology
• Evidence of continued professional development related to cardiology
• Evidence of leadership skills and service development
• Experience within Arrhythmia management
• Experience performing DC Cardioversion
• Experience with Complex Devices

Knowledge and Skills

• Understanding of evidence-based practice
• Appreciate the accountability associated with advanced clinical roles
• Excellent communication skills: interpersonal, written and verbal
• Knowledge of Arrhythmia Management and service delivery requirements
• Able to lead, manage and motivate others in complex problem solving and assessment skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.