Cardiology Nurse Consultant

The post holder will raise the profile of nursing, providing leadership and consultancy to Cardiology Nurse Specialist, Cardiology Lead Nurses and Cardiology Nurses, As senior nursing leader of Stockport NHSFT they will work strategically with other senior leaders including the Cardiology Triumvirate to deliver high quality, safe and reliable cardiology.

The post holder will support the Triumvirate and MDT's to deliver the national, regional and local cardiology nursing agenda. They will manage the specialist nursing team and lead nurses to support the delivery of specialists cardiology care in line with national, regional and local guidelines, underpinned by a strong clinical governance structure. Supporting senior nursing teams to ensure the effective delivery of the national and regional cardiology strategy and associated peer reviews to demonstrate improvements to the provision of care to patients and their families throughout their care pathway

They will work closely with multidisciplinary teams and relevant departments/organisations internal and external to the Trust to ensure the delivery of responsive individualised patient care, through delivery of best practice and professional practice development, in response to the transforming nursing agenda.

Provide effective clinical and professional leadership which demonstrates the values and behaviours identified within the trust values.

Expected to work approximately 5 percent of working hours in clinical practice.

Provide Line management to Cardiology Specialist Nurses

Provide strategic direction and leadership in relation to the development of the cardiology services.

Provide an environment which is conducive with learning , education, training, research and development, fostering innovative practice and proactively implementing professional practice innovations to address knowledge and skill gaps.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice

Lead service developments acting as a resource for other health care professionals and encouraging collaborative working to improve service delivery and provisions.

Ensure that patient care and service developments are evidenced based, undertaking local research projects as necessary.

Ensure there is an appropriate governance structure in place and that the team meet training and competence requirements for the post.

If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary

In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.

• Experience and understanding of undertaking audits
• Experience and understanding of undertaking audit
• Non
  - Medical Prescriber Cardiology related
• Undertaken or willingness to undertake advanced communication skills training
• Demonstrates up-to-date knowledge in Cardiology and patient pathways
• Experience of undertaking nurse-led clinics
• Demonstrates an awareness of working in a multi-disciplinary team
• Experience of line-managing staff and undertaking appraisals

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

£64,455 to £74,896 a year

Per Annum Pro Rata