Cardiology Specialist Nurse

Responsible to the Lead Cardiology Specialist Nurse.
In collaboration with medical and technical teams, participate in the organisation, control and delivery of treatment and associated care within specialist nurse led cardiology services.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

• Provide a comprehensive specialist clinical nursing service within Cardiology medicine, with emphasis on patient cantered care.
• Take a role in the development and service delivery in own specialist area including developing protocols and audits whilst supporting colleagues in their specialism.
• Work in an interdisciplinary manner, to provide high quality care for cardiology patients, both as inpatients and outpatients.
• Provide highly specialist training and education in cardiology medicine to doctors, nurses, allied healthcare professionals and students.
• Participate in audit / research to evaluate practice and participate in local and national audit / research projects.
• To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: John Eastland Job title: Lead Cardiology Specialist Nurse Email address: Telephone number:
Susan Forster Cardiology Matron
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