Band 6 Cardiac Nurse

Job summary

We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic nurse with a special interest in cardiology to join the Community Cardiac Rehabilitation Team in Swale (Sittingbourne and Sheppey). The successful candidate will join our multidisciplinary team, working in collaboration to motivate and inspire patients and their carers to engage in improving their health and recovery following a cardiac event.

We provide high quality care which is focused on improving patients health and quality of life through health education, advice on cardiovascular risk reduction, physical activity and stress management as recommended in the BACPR standards. The successful candidate would work in both inpatient and outpatient setting across phases 1-3 of the cardiac rehabilitation programme. The successful candidate will also offer support to the Cardiac Specialist Nurses who manage patients with LVSD.

This is a full time role 37.5 hours, working Monday to Friday, no weekends or bank holidays.

Main duties of the job

As a Cardiac Nurseyou will:

• Be responsible for managing a defined caseload of patients, using theoretical knowledge and high levels of practical experience to formulate specialised programmes of care.
• Manage a clinical caseload of cardiac patients. Taking responsibility for direct patient care, assessing, planning, providing, and evaluating nursing care needs including monitoring, diagnostics, and investigations.
• Be responsible for teaching patients and their carers to manage their cardiac conditions to the best of their abilities. The aim being to prevent short term and long-term complications, this may be one to one or in groups.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers to ensure a clear understanding of cardiac conditions and management. This will involve providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive information and will require developed persuasive, motivational, empathetic and reassurance skills. There will be barriers to understanding.
• Acceptreferrals from health professionals involved in caring for people with cardiac conditions. Responsible for formulating detailed assessments of the patients physical, social and psychological needs.
• Be responsible for supporting optimising drug therapy and supporting and guiding patients to make lifestyle changes.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2