Band 5 Cardiac Specialist Nurse | Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Band 5 Cardiac Specialist Nurse | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

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Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust

An exiting opportunity has arisen for a dedicated and motivated registered nursetowork within the Cardiac Services of BCHC.

Under the direction of senior registered professionals, you will be required to work multi professionally, as part of Cardiac Service providing care for individuals requiring management of their Heart Failure. You will be required to support patients within their own homes, community clinics and virtual clinics.

You willbe expected to deliver and maintain a high standard of clinical care and education. Youwill also be required to have good communication and computer skills, and are able to utilise excellent time management and organisational skills. You will ensure that clinical observations are recorded accurately and in a timely manner and will keep team members fully informed at all times.

The successful applicant will be required to work 28 hours per weekand across all commissioned localities where required.

Consideration will be given to flexible working hours that meet the needs of the service.

• To participate in the implementation and monitoring of the Trust’s clinical and operational guidelines and policies.
• Be aware of, and act in accordance with, the Trust’s Organisational and Clinical Guidelines and Policies.
• To be aware of, and act in accordance with the NMC Code of Conduct and other professional Guidelines.
• Maintain appropriate and up-to-date knowledge and skills by undertaking continuing education in accordance with personal and service needs.
• To be responsible for own professional development through active learning and reflective practice.
• Apply a problem solving approach to practice, seeking resolution to problems with an awareness of own personal limitations of knowledge and practice.
• Maintain high professional standards acting as a positive role model for the profession and service.
• To be courteous and respectful to patients and colleagues including adhering to a dress code appropriate to the work situation.

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry.

We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to ‘Be Part of Our Team’ and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

To give skilled nursing care, based on principles of best practice and clinical evidence. This includes Chronic disease management, palliative care, Specific skills include phlebotomy and recording electrocardiograms, with the identification of abnormalities and escalation to a senior Heart failure specialist nurse.

Responsibility for the holistic health needs assessment including care planning, evaluation and appropriate implementation of health care and ensuring continuity of care following referral from acute care, rehabilitation units, GPs and other agencies.

Undertake comprehensive assessment of the physical, psychological and social care

needs of patients using the Single Assessment Process and including the needs of carers. To provide individualised and person-centred care plans under the supervision of a Heart failure Specialist nurse that provide monitoring and promotion of self-care to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions

Act as the patient’s advocate and to facilitate the patient’s own choices regarding nursing…