Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: 8-4pm or 9-5pm, no nights or weekends
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Can flex start and finish times between hours of 8 and 5)
- Job ref
- 196-NM12922
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- RBH
- Town
- Chelsea
- Salary
- p.a. inclusive of HCA
- Closing
- 08/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Senior Staff Nurse Stress Echocardiography & TOE
NHS AfC: Band 6
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
The Royal Brompton Hospital is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK. We are known throughout the world for our expertise, our standard of care and research.
The Royal Brompton Diagnostic Centre opened in January 2022. It is home to many diagnostic procedures for heart and lung patients.
We are looking for an experienced cardiology nurse to join our echocardiography team to help support the stress echocardiography and Transoesophageal echocardiography (TOE) service.
Main duties of the job
Overseeing the day to day management of patients, assisting and supervising patients’ pharmacological stress echocardiography test & TOE procedure according to local protocol.
Carrying out telephone pre-assessment for stress echo and TOE patients.
Working for our organisation
If you are proud of your clinical abilities and want to share your skills while learning new ones, then we would like to hear from you. The department offers a supportive and respectful environment providing you with the opportunity to develop your skills with career development utilising internal and external training opportunities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Candidates should be an adult registered nurse with experience in general and cardiac or recovery nursing. ILS or ALS is essential.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Cardiology/cardiothoracic/ITU /HDU experience
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of drug prescribing laws and awareness of available methods of nurse drug administration for patients
Skills
Essential criteria
- Ability to nurse and manage patients with acute and chronic coronary heart disease
Desirable criteria
- Equivalent courses/skills demonstrating appropriate skills for the role
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Post registration cardiac courses (BSc level or equivalent)
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of drug prescribing laws and awareness of available methods of nurse drug administration for patients
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Samantha Cliffe
- Job title
- Senior Nurse Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0330 128 2290
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