Registered Nurse

Are you a motivated and enthusiastic nurse looking for an exciting opportunity to develop specialist skills in cardiology? The Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory offers a dynamic and rewarding environment where you will play a vital role in the care of patients undergoing a wide range of diagnostic and interventional cardiac procedures. Working across both the Cath Lab and recovery area, you will be involved in every stage of the patient journey, from preparation and procedural support to post-procedure monitoring and recovery. You will gain valuable experience in haemodynamic monitoring, ECG interpretation, conscious sedation, emergency care, and the management of complex cardiac patients. As part of a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, you will have access to excellent training and development opportunities, allowing you to expand your knowledge and progress your career within a specialist field. This is a unique opportunity to make a real difference to patients' lives while working in a fast-paced and innovative environment where teamwork, learning, and patient safety are at the heart of everything we do. Join our Cath Lab team and be part of delivering life-changing and life-saving cardiac care every day.

• Assess, plan, implement, and evaluate patient care before, during, and after cardiac procedures.
• Prepare patients for diagnostic and interventional procedures, ensuring appropriate documentation, consent, and safety checks are completed.
• Provide reassurance, support, and information to patients and their relatives.
• Assist cardiologists and the MDT during procedures.
• Continuously monitor patients' haemodynamic status, oxygen saturation, and vital signs during procedures.
• Administer medications, including intravenous drugs and conscious sedation, in accordance with the Trust policy.
• Recognise, respond to, and escalate any clinical deterioration, emergencies, or procedural complications promptly.
• Maintain a safe, clean, and sterile environment.
• Recover patients following cardiac procedures, providing ongoing assessment and monitoring until discharge criteria are met.
• Monitor vascular access sites and identify complications.
• Deliver post-procedure care.
• Maintain accurate, timely, and comprehensive patient records and documentation.
• Work collaboratively with cardiologists, physiologists, radiographers, ward staff, and other members of the multidisciplinary team to ensure safe and effective patient care.
  
  As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work. In return we will offer:
• Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
• On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
• Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
• We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
• We are the 4thbusiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England - an average of 2077 per week.
• An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day - 3rd largest in the country.
• Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
• Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
• We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
• We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
• UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.