Associate Practitioner - Cardiac Rehabilitation Service

NHS; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job description

We are recruiting for an Associate Practitioner - Cardiac Rehabilitation Service who share our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

You will play a pivotal role in our Cardiac rehabilitation service, maintaining the highest standards of care for our patients in our Cardiac Rehabilitation program.

You must be enthusiastic, self-motivated and excellent at communicating with patients and staff at different levels. Computer literacy and an ability to travel between trust sites are essential. Your duties will include the identification, assessment and education of cardiac patients in both the inpatient and outpatient setting. You will be responsible for collecting and inputting confidential data into Mandatory national Audits.

You will provide support to the cardiac specialist nurses and physiotherapist to deliver high quality, safe cardiac rehabilitation exercise classes, working with an experienced team keen to offer you support, help and guidance at any time.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will support the smooth and effective running of the cardiac rehabilitation service with senior and junior staff members as part of a multidisciplinary team.

This will include identifying, assessing and supporting patients as part of their cardiac rehabilitation pathway. This includes both inpatient and outpatient environments, across both Lister and Queen Elizabeth Hospital sites, either face to face or via telephone. You will also support the safe running of exercise classes off site.

About us

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:

• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work-life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.

Person Specification

Previous Experience

• Experience with obtaining basic patient observations
• Experience within an acute or outpatient healthcare setting
• Previous relevant experience of working in the NHS

Skills

• Willingness to undertake cross training to extend skill set to deliver role
• Demonstrable interpersonal skills - can work as part of a team or independently
• Ability to organise and allocate work to less experienced staff to meet needs of the service
• High degree of computer literacy
• Ability to work with healthcare databases and data inputting

Knowledge

• Demonstrable knowledge of a range of routine and nonroutine cardiology duties
• Basic knowledge of role requirements
• Basic knowledge of common cardiac pathologies
• Basic knowledge of common therapy options for cardiology pathologies
• Knowledge of Trust IT systems
• Extensive knowledge of cardiology diagnostics and treatment
• Knowledge/performance of clinical audit and research

Qualifications / Training

• Ability to travel between trust sites
• Appropriate NVQ 3/diploma or equivalent

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.

£26,530 to £29,114 per annum pro rata