Cardiac Rehabilitation Clinical Nurse Specialist

We have a proactive cardiac rehabilitation team who are dedicated and passionate about the care, education and support of cardiac patients, including heart failure. We are searching for the right nurse to join us and help continue to move the service forward. The successful candidate will be dynamic, focused on empowering patients and their families to participate in the management of their condition. Working closely with the clinical exercise physiologist and other members of the multidisciplinary team the post holder will strive to support patients and their families by providing education about their diagnosis, symptom management, secondary prevention, risk factor management and end of life support.

We are looking for someone with excellent communication skills, which are vital to the role and you would need to be able to demonstrate these at interview. We work as part of a multidisciplinary team and have good liaison both locally and regionally. We would also expect you to be flexible and adaptable to the needs of the service and fellow team members.

Being a car driver with access to a car is essential for the role.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be an expert clinical practitioner who will work as part of the Cardiology Clinical Nurse Specialist Team (CCNST). They will provide specialist nursing care for patients requiring all aspects of cardiac rehabilitation including heart failure.

To be a clinically based competent and skilled autonomous practitioner choosing, managing, planning and delivering the most appropriate treatment programmes tailored to individual needs, ensuring access to high quality phase 1 - 4 cardiac rehabilitation services.

Work with the local Leisure Service, local NHS providers and wider community to promote long term physical activity amongst individuals with established heart disease.

Key role in demonstrating an equitable service through clinical audit and clinical effectiveness

Work as part of a multi-professional team to ensure effective communication and coordinated delivery of care for patients and carers.

Work in collaboration with the cardiac nursing team to plan and deliver care and cardiac services locally.Continually develop and update knowledge and highly specialist skills in specialist area of competence and delivery of evidence based care

Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.

We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.

Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.