Band 6 Cardiac Nurse

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Full time
Location: Sittingbourne
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Job offered by: HCRG Care Group
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We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic nurse with a special interest in cardiology to join the Community Cardiac Rehabilitation Team in Swale (Sittingbourne and Sheppey). The successful candidate will join our multidisciplinary team, working in collaboration to motivate and inspire patients and their carers to engage in improving their health and recovery following a cardiac event. We provide high quality care which is focused on improving patient’s health and quality of life through health education, advice on cardiovascular risk reduction, physical activity, and stress management as recommended in the BACPR standards. The successful candidate would work in both inpatient and outpatient settings across phases 1-3 of the cardiac rehabilitation programme. The successful candidate will also offer support to the Cardiac Specialist Nurses who manage patients with LVSD. This is a full time role of 37.5 hours, working Monday to Friday, with no weekends or bank holidays. Package Description:

As a Band 6 Cardiac Nurse, you’ll be part of our valued team based in Sittingbourne and Sheppey Community Hospital, North Kent. You will feel valued as a Cardiac Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: AFC Band 6 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions Plentiful on-site parking Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates Online and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing, including healthy recipes, activity challenges, post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, career coaching, and counselling Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways, and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year Main Responsibilities:

As a Cardiac Nurse, you will: Be responsible for managing a defined caseload of patients, using theoretical knowledge and high levels of practical experience to formulate specialised programmes of care. Manage a clinical caseload of cardiac patients, taking responsibility for direct patient care, assessing, planning, providing, and evaluating nursing care needs including monitoring, diagnostics, and investigations. Teach patients and their carers to manage their cardiac conditions to the best of their abilities, aiming to prevent short-term and long-term complications, either one-on-one or in groups. Communicate effectively with patients and carers to ensure a clear understanding of cardiac conditions and management, providing and receiving highly complex, sensitive information requiring developed persuasive, motivational, empathetic, and reassurance skills. Accept referrals from health professionals involved in caring for people with cardiac conditions and formulate detailed assessments of the patient’s physical, social, and psychological needs. Support optimising drug therapy and guide patients to make lifestyle changes. The Ideal Candidate:

The post holder will require at least 2 years post-qualification experience and to have worked within the cardiac specialty. A qualification of ENB 998 or Mentorship/Qualification certificate is essential, including a postgraduate qualification in Cardiac Conditions (certificate). It will be desirable to have completed a Cardiac course, have BACPR parts 1 & 2, and be a Non-medical prescriber. As part of a small dynamic team, you will have regular supervision, training, and support from highly skilled colleagues to address your learning needs and will work closely with members of the MDT. HCRG Care Group actively promotes CPD and provides access to funding for courses, opportunities to participate in research and quality improvement, and career progression. You will also need to be confident using IT systems and demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages (i.e., Outlook, Word, Excel). A full UK driving licence and access to a vehicle for work purposes is essential. About The Company:

We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology, and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments, and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you, so please apply as soon as you can. As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people, and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance, so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices. Everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited, and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

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