Cardiac Rehabilitation Sister​/Charge Nurse | Royal NHS Trust

Overview

We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic nurse with proven specialist knowledge and experience in cardiology to work in our established multi‑disciplined Cardiac Rehabilitation Team at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. The post holder will work between the two hospital sites at New Cross & Cannock Chase Hospital, and in our community venues, as required. This is an exciting opportunity to improve the clinical outcomes and quality of life for our service users who have recently received treatment for their coronary artery disease (CAD).

Our role involves being able to act as a clinical expert for our primary and secondary health care teams and effective liaison with other community health care professionals. We are seeking those with a high level of knowledge of cardiovascular disease (CVD) in order to provide clinical expertise in providing all aspects of coronary heart disease management, including audit and development of the service.

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow.

We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients. The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

• To work autonomously taking responsibility for care, quality and clinical activity for a designated caseload of patients.
• To process referrals appropriately, ensuring that patients are seen within designated waiting times and that tasks are delegated to administration staff effectively and efficiently and communicated to wider multidisciplinary team.
• To triage and prioritise patients, demonstrating the use of a variety of techniques to elicit the history of an illness and determine an appropriate care plan.
• To take responsibility for direct patient care: assessing, planning, providing and evaluating nursing care needs including monitoring, diagnostics and investigations.
• Delivering safe and effective clinical practice.
• Enhancing the patient’s experience with regular and constructive communication.
• Managing and developing the performance of a team of nursing staff.
• Ensuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisation’s objectives.
• Efficient and effective use of resources.
• Deputising for Senior Sister/Charge Nurse.
• Practice within an ethical framework based upon respect for the well‑being and safety of patients and clients.
• To be responsible and professionally accountable for the assessment of care needs; development of personalised plans of care, implementation and evaluation of care without supervision.
• Lead a team and co‑ordinate the clinical area in the absence of the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse and reinforce the values and standards of compassion, dignity and respect in care, leading the delivery of clinically excellent care.
• Ensuring the planning and delivery of care is aligned to professional values of care, compassion and respect, act as a change agent, developing clinically effective practice through the effective utilisation and integration of evidence based practice.
• Support the Senior Sister / Charge Nurse in ensuring a culture of protecting patients from harm and deprivation of basic rights ensuring a safe and effective service with continuous quality improvement.
• Promote a clean and safe environment for staff, patients and visitors by ensuring compliance with legislation, policies and protocols including health and safety, healthcare associated infection prevention, clinical governance, including risk management and critical incident reporting and root cause analysis.
• Ensure a high standard of care and record keeping in accordance with Nursing…