Staff Nurse Heart Centre

Would you like to join a centre of excellence in rural and remote healthcare?

Main area Cardiology Grade NHS AfC:
Band 5 Contract Permanent: includes on call weekends, nights and bank holidays Hours 21 hours per week (Part Time/full time) Job
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Site Cumberland Infirmary Town Carlisle Salary £32,073 - £39,043 pa pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 24/07/2026 23:59

Band 5 Nurse – THE HEART CENTRE

We are looking for experienced or newly qualified nurses to join our friendly team. We provide high quality care to cardiac patients and elective day‑care patients awaiting coronary angiograms, angioplasty and PPCI, with an out‑of‑hour on‑call system. This is an excellent opportunity for those interested in gaining experience in the care of patients experiencing acute MI, heart failure, arrhythmias and other cardiac conditions.

We are a friendly, supportive team offering opportunities to develop skills within the cath labs and cardiac pacing. It is an exciting time to join this dynamic team. The expansion of the heart centre enables us to provide more advanced procedures, giving the team the opportunity to develop new skills and experience.

Work as part of the team to provide high quality nursing care for cardiology and medical patients in your care, supervise healthcare assistants, junior staff and students on the ward. Communicate effectively with patients’ relatives and the MDT. Willing to learn to circulate and scrub in the cath labs and participate in the emergency on‑call rota.

Assess, plan, deliver and evaluate nursing care for patients within all of the acute cardiac care areas, providing the prescribed nursing care without supervision.

Contribute to the development and evaluation of nursing practice in the acute cardiac areas.

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We’re responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of ‘safe, high quality care every time’.

• Being a clinically led organisation
• Quality and safety at the heart
• A positive patient experience every time
• A great place to work
• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust’s sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.

We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.

• Registered nurse with active registration.

• Continuing professional development with portfolio.
• NMC code of professional conduct.
• Equality issues
• Relevant field of nursing.
• Budgetary awareness.
• Equality legislation and best practice

• Able to work as a member of a team.
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to act as a mentor to HCAs.
• Ability to demonstrate the compassionate values and behaviours needed for dignified care.
• ECG interpretation, Cardiac Rhythm analysis, central line administration.
• IT Skills.

• Flexible approach to shift patterns and participation in on‑call rota to provide a 24/7 PPCI service.

• 27‑day holiday scheme rising to 33 after 10 years
• NHS Discounts*
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars and Cycle to Work*
• Vivup is a free, confidential counselling and information service to assist with personal or work‑related problems

* Subject to eligibility

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.