Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiology services
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (Secondment would be considered)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 153-ME04535
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Bournemouth
- Town
- Bournemouth
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pa/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Cardiology Enhanced Clinical Practitioner
Band 7
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
Job overview
We are looking for a motivated, forward thinking enhanced clinical practitioner (advanced clinical practitioner at band 7 would be considered) to cover maternity leave within the cardiac specialist nurse team.
The candidate will provide expert care for patients; assessing, planning, implementing and monitoring of care whilst ensuring best practice, evidence-based practice, patient-centred cardiology care.
We are looking for a self-motivated, adaptable and knowledgeable professional who is clinically confident working independently and as part of a team with experience of working in Cardiology. You will be highly organised with great communication skills to work as part of the multi-disciplinary team.
Base Location: Royal Bournemouth Hospital
Interview Date: TBC
Main duties of the job
- To undertake a competency based pathway with supervision and support, working towards autonomously undertaking assessment of varying aspects of patient care such as rapid access clinics
- To acquire the skills and knowledge to be an accountable person, responsible for managing practice, using an enhanced level of professional accountability, autonomy and judgement for highly complex decision-making across a discrete aspect of patient care in the cardiology service.
- Through training, develop the ability to work autonomously, using enhanced clinical knowledge and skills, underpinned by theory and experience, to holistically assess patients with often complex conditions, using a range of methods across the specialist service.
- Under supervision, plan and manage care of patients within level of practice, working in partnership with others, to optimise health outcomes and resource use, as well as providing direct support to patients and carers.
- To propose and implement service and policy development and redesign, impacting beyond own area and other disciplines, informed by current best practice and evidence-base, in accordance with values-based care of the trust.
- To act as a resource to others and deliver and evaluate a range of relevant specialist programmes of education and development for individuals and large groups. (including but not limited to GPs and community teams; hospital medical and nursing staff; professions allied to medicine and external agencies).
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how
we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued teammates and colleagues.
UHD are investing in services across the Trust, with many being transformed and developed following merger and the
New Hospital Programme.
This means that some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or long term. Recruiting Managers
interviewing for this role will be happy to answer any specific questions that you have about this at interview.
This role will have a base location of RBH site but dual site working is anticipated.
Please note if the role or service is relocated as part of a planned move, employees will not be eligible for excess
mileage reimbursement. Travel from the postholder's home to the new work base will be considered a normal
commute. Any other changes not related to this relocation will be managed according to the relevant Trust or National
terms and conditions
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Full details about the role and key requirements are available in the job description and person specification .
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Current registration with relevant professional body such as NMC/HCPC
- Enhanced Clinical Practice qualification, Level 6 or equivalent experience
- Non-medical independent and supplementary prescriber
- Physical Examination of the Adult Course
- Relevant post-graduate cardiac specialist course
- Recognised mentoring qualification or equivalent experience
Desirable criteria
- Degree level qualification
- Level 7 Post registration/post-graduate qualification.
- Management and/or Leadership course relevant to healthcare environment.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience of managing a discrete aspect of a patient’s care at an enhanced level of practice with specific knowledge and skills in a field of expertise within Cardiology.
- Experience of managing change as part of service and practice development.
- Experience of regular participation in research and development, leading clinical audits in own specialist area.
- Experience of supervising, teaching, mentoring and developing staff.
- Experience of implementing, commenting on and proposing changes to policies and protocols.
- Experience of working in partnership with all levels of staff, evidencing the ability to plan and co-ordinate the provision of specialised care.
- Able to demonstrate ability to deliver training and education to patients.
Desirable criteria
- Quality improvement course or relevant experience
- Working across organisational boundaries
Technical skills competencies
Essential criteria
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex information from patient assessment and interventions, and freedom to act in managing patients ‘care.
- Clinical reasoning, problem-solving and decision-making skills at an enhanced level.
- Demonstrable ability to work in a busy environment and resilience when the service is under pressure.
- To be competent to deal calmly and professionally with patients, relatives and work colleagues in a confidential and sensitive manner.
- bility to work unsupervised and on own initiative and as part of a multidisciplinary team.
- Dexterity, co-ordination for driving, keyboard skills; use of specialist equipment and tools
Desirable criteria
- Trust consent competencies
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Able to demonstrate highly specialised theoretical and practical, enhanced knowledge of cardiology specialty and common presentations
- Understanding of the principles of effective budgetary management.
- Understanding of the theory and application of Clinical Governance.
Desirable criteria
- Trust policies and procedures
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- Computer literacy with a range of software, databases, spread sheets.
- Manual dexterity, precision and accuracy in physical skills
- A commitment to improving patient services through an ability to sustain a clear performance focus on achieving demanding goals.
- Be able to work across sites as the service dictates.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Peter Uren
- Job title
- Lead Advanced Clinical Practitioner
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 019 6668
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