Job summary
Employer heading
Sister/Charge Nurse - Cardiac Catheterisation Suite
Band 6
Job overview
Are you passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to your patients?
Are you an enthusiastic, motivated and an experienced cardiac catheter suite nurse?
A new challenge awaits you if you are keen to develop your leadership skills within our multi-disciplinary team.
A willingness to complete the ALS provider course.
The Catheterisation Suite has two labs and an 8 bedded recovery bay currently undertaking a range of procedures including coronary angiography, implant of pacemakers, transoesophageal echo and external cardioversions. You will deliver excellent nursing care within both the recovery area and the lab area, in the role of circulating nurse and scrub nurse. Support the Unit Manager and MDT leaders in future departmental developments.
To succeed in the role you will require:
- Extensive cardiac catheter suite experience – within recovery and within the cath labs
- Accuracy and attention to detail
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Experience of co-ordinating a team, cath lab lists, reception
- To have the ability to work under pressure
We look forward to supporting your professional development.
The department is open Monday - Friday from 08:00-18:00hrs.
Main duties of the job
Your role will be to support the Unit Manager, to ensure the provision of excellent care and compassion to all patients and visitors to the department. You will ensure that a high standard of nursing care is delivered by yourself and others based on assessment, planning implementation and evaluation.
You will assist and support the Unit Manager in safe and effective management including staff rotas, recruitment and selection, management of performance, audits, participation in the development/management of standard operating procedures. You will also assist with complaints, incidents and errors.
You will co-ordinate the daily running of the department, ensuring both out-patients and in-patients are dealt with in a timely manner.
You will provide leadership support to a team of band 5 nurses and senior healthcare assistants and work closely with the multi-disciplinary team caring for patients pre, peri and post procedurally.
You will be expected to be competent in all aspects of cardiac catheter suite nursing including working within the recovery area, circulating, scrubbing and assisting in the lab as well as being competent in adult safe sedation.
Working for our organisation
We have 10000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Support the Unit Manager and Matron in ensuring the provision of excellent care with compassion for the patients, relatives and visitors who are cared for within or by the ward, department, service or team.
Assist and support the Unit Manager in the safe, effective management of the area including management of personnel, facilities and the associated systems and processes.
Act as a role model, presenting a positive image of self, team and the organisation.
Be responsible for the delivery and co-ordination of care, through appropriate professional practice, delegation and supervision of duties carried out by junior staff.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Appropriate NMC Registration
- • Diploma or Degree in Nursing
- Intermediate Life support provider
- Venepuncture & cannulation
Desirable criteria
- • Mentorship course
- Advanced Life support provider
- An appropriate post registration education and training course
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
- • 18 months experience working in a cardiac catheter lab
- • Knowledge of Clinical Governance and safeguarding and the relevance to practice
- • Understanding of day to day management of cardiac catheter lab
- • Experience of implementing changes to benefit patients and improve nursing practice
- • Experience of teaching within the clinical speciality.
Desirable criteria
- • Competency completion for scrub nurse
- Experience as a runner nurse in a cardiac catheter lab
- Experience of caring for patients have procedures including TOE and ECV
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sharon Clarke
- Job title
- Cardiac Catheter Suite Unit Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01772 524383
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