Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

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Job overview

If you are a dynamic Nurse with experience in Cardiology and Arrhythmia, we would love to hear from you. We have an opportunity within our team, for a 12 month fixed term, full-time post.

Kingston Hospital’s Arrhythmia team is being developed, to help care for the increasing needs of our local population. We are looking to recruit an innovative and dedicated Cardiology Nurse Specialist, to continue to develop our excellent service. This would involve working closely with Consultant Cardiologists, Cardiac Physiologists and Cardiology CNS’. The post holder will help to provide a hospital based arrhythmia service which will encompass arrhythmia clinics, in-patient reviews, nurse led cardioversion service, development of an internal loop recorder implant service and collaboration with the cardiology team and the bigger hospital community. The successful applicant will be expected to manage a caseload of patients, offering education and support in the management of Arrhythmia.

You will be expected to work autonomously and will be part of a wider team of cardiac specialist nurses, currently leading services across the cardiac spectrum at Kingston Hospital and in the Community.

We welcome applications from people enthusiastic about Cardiology and Arrhythmia. We are keen to recruit the right person for this job, if you would like to apply, but feel that you don’t meet all of the criteria, please contact us to discuss further.

Main duties of the job

• To provide high-quality, patient centred, arrhythmia care.
• In conjunction with the Arrhythmia CNS team and the Arrhythmia Consultants, the post holder will work autonomously as an advanced practitioner managing patients with cardiac arrhythmias, in the acute setting and out-patients.
• The post holder will provide high level clinical assessment, care planning, expert advice, extended intervention and thorough evaluation.
• The post holder will work collaboratively with Primary and Secondary care teams to further develop care management of arrhythmia patients to reduce inappropriate referrals and unplanned admissions.

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