Job summary
- Main area
- cardiology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 361-6994869
- Employer
- East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lister Hospital
- Town
- Stevenage
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Associate Practitioner - Cardiac Rehabilitation Service
NHS AfC: Band 4
Here at East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,
Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
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. 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.
Working for our organisation
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
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience with obtaining basic patient observations
- Experience within an acute or outpatient healthcare setting
Desirable criteria
- Previous relevant experience of working in the NHS
Skills
Essential criteria
- Willingness to undertake cross training to extend skill set to deliver role
- Excellent communication skills
- Demonstrable interpersonal skills - can work as part of a team or independently
- Ability to organise and allocate work to less experience staff to meet needs of the service
- Excellent written communication skills
- High degree of computer literacy
Desirable criteria
- Ability to work with healthcare databases and data inputting
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of Trust IT systems
- Extensive knowledge of cardiology diagnostics and treatment
- Knowledge/performance of clinical audit and research
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
- Good computer literacy skills
- Ability to travel between trust sites
Desirable criteria
- Appropriate NVQ 3/diploma or equivalent
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- kylie murray
- Job title
- lead nurse cardiology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07903459626
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