Arrhythmia Nurse Specialist

Main area: Cardiology

Grade: Band 7

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time - 5 sessions per week (Mon - Friday 9-5 and one weekend in 5)

Job ref: 287-AMED-93-25

Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Site: Aintree Hospital

Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Per annum, pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 16/06/2025 23:59

Job overview: To deliver a comprehensive support service for patients diagnosed and suffering from cardiac arrhythmias, promoting a seamless pathway of care for this patient group and ensuring individualised patient support, effective self-management, and education. Acting as a resource point providing educational and clinical support to health professionals within primary & secondary care. Facilitating the implementation of NSF targets.

Main duties of the job:

• Delivers a support service for patients with arrhythmias and their families to ensure they receive pertinent information regarding their condition with treatment alternatives explored and relative risks as per current research explained, empowering patients to make an informed choice.
• Develops services in line with recommendations in the National Service Framework for CHD Chapter 8, NICE guidelines for AF, and the European Society of Cardiology guidelines.
• Uses highly specialist and well-developed communication skills to deal effectively with patient and family education needs, including breaking bad news, prognosis, and dealing with emotive situations.
• Works autonomously in day-to-day practice with support from the Consultant Cardiologist and Advance Nurse Practitioners (ANPs).
• Provides a comprehensive clinical assessment of patients using advanced clinical knowledge and skills including pharmacology and use of antiarrhythmic/cardiology drugs obtained through completion of the Supplementary/Independent prescriber’s course.
• Has the ability to carry out detailed assessments of patients' arrhythmic risk utilising knowledge of ECG, Echocardiography, angiography, and other cardiological diagnostic testing.
• Appreciation and scrutiny of latest research developments applicable to arrhythmia care, management of sudden cardiac death, familial screening for genetic cardiac syndromes & device implantation.
• Develops and implements policy and practice guidelines specific to the management of patients with arrhythmias to deliver high standards of care.
• Liaises with other specialist services, clinical psychology, cardiac rehabilitation, and heart failure services.
• Participates in providing a long-term follow-up clinic in conjunction with cardiac physiologists and consultant Cardiologists.
• Acts as a resource point providing education and support at local and regional level for health care professionals within Primary and Secondary care.
• Develops and maintains effective audit systems for performance indication and future service development.
• Actively participates in own personal development and performance review.
• Develops and maintains good working relationships with cardiology colleagues.
• Participates in programs to raise the profile of arrhythmia care at local, regional, and national level with membership & input to relevant professional bodies.
• The ability to interpret complex investigations and act accordingly to deliver evidence-based clinical care, incorporating government initiatives and Cardiology guidelines.
• Produces complex reports and is able to produce a good standard of written communication to report findings to other members of the multidisciplinary team, primary care, patients, and their families.
• Partakes in audit across the service and contributes toward providing best practice.
• Improves and enhances the patient experience by coming up with innovative ideas to enhance the service and continue to improve client/patient relationships.
• Facilitates patient support groups enabling development of patient-to-patient support and feedback and review of the service.
• Facilitates participation in rehabilitation exercise programs for patients where appropriate.
• Facilitates patients' return to employment arranging workplace assessment where appropriate & by providing relevant information and employers.
• Maintains personal responsibility to comply with all organisational and statutory requirements e.g. Health & Safety.

Person specification:

Qualifications:

• RGN
• Teaching and assessing
• Completed clinical Examination modules
• Non-medical prescribing

Experience:

• Range of clinical experience
• Demonstrable experience in Cardiology assessment, diagnosis, and management
• Experience of teaching and assessing in the clinical area
• Participation in staff management
• Participated in service development and implementation of change

Knowledge:

• Knowledge of professional and NHS issues
• Detailed knowledge of current best practice area and at least 2 years’ experience at band 6 level
• Basic knowledge of financial management within the clinical setting
• Documented evidence of continuing professional development

Skills:

• Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients of varying levels of understanding
• Ability to communicate unpleasant and sensitive information
• Able to present written information in a logical manner
• The ability to interpret heart rhythms accurately
• To interpret abnormal findings on a 12 lead ECG
• Able to manage own workload, work autonomously, plan, organise and prioritise whilst coordinating the work of others with minimal supervision
• Basic IT skills in word processing and spreadsheets
• Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues in the health care setting

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Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

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