Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiac Cath Lab/ Interventional Radiology
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (24h on call rota)
- Job ref
- 271-CCS-7192629
- Employer
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Great Ormond Street Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £35,964 - £43,780 Inclusive per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Staff Nurse
Band 5
Job overview
Are you looking to learn and develop highly specialised skills in a supportive and innovative department where provision and maintenance of high quality & excellence of service to patients, parents and families is key? Do you have existing leadership/management skills and experience or feel that you have excellent leadership potential waiting to be developed? Do you want to work in a leading Paediatric Centre and to join our friendly and Child centred Interventional Radiology/Cardiac Cath Lab Team? If your answers to the above are ‘Yes’, then this position could be for you!
This post is to work within the Interventional Radiology and Cardiac Cath Lab Department therefore peri-operative experience, such as scrub and circulating, would be desirable. However, you will be given training and support in our specialist skills and in peri-operative care. We have an excellent and supportive Practice Education Team who will assist with your orientation and on-going professional development.
The Interventional Radiology and Cardiac Catheter Lab run’s Monday to Friday 0800- 1800hrs, with a 24h on-call service, including weekends and Bank holidays.
Main duties of the job
The Cardiac Cath Lab carries out many Cardiac procedures including ASD/PDA Closures, ICD Implants, Diagnostic Catheters and combined MRI/Angio cases in our state of the art Cardiac Cath Lab suite. In addition we provide continuing care to our Heart and Lung Transplant patients.
The Interventional Radiology Team perform procedures that includes Central Venous Access Device Insertion, Biopsy, Airway Intervention, Feeding Device Insertion, Vascular Intervention, Angiography, and Angioplasty.
Working for our organisation
We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as the communities we serve, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including people with Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic heritage, people with a disability, and people from LGBTQ+ communities. By growing an ever more diverse workforce, we’ll have a greater range of perspectives and knowledge, meaning that we can provide the children and young people at our hospital with even better care.
Our hospital is committed to creating an environment that is open and inclusive. Our staff are encouraged to engage with colleagues through the following networks: REACH (Race, Ethnicity and Cultural Heritage) ENABLED (Enhancing Abilities & Leveraging Disabilities Network), PRIDE and Women’s networks; all of which are sponsored by a member of our Executive Management Team.
We want to ensure that all of our people, regardless of their background, are seen and heard. We want to attract applicants that share our commitment to inclusion and that understand diversity is a strength that is embraced and valued.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Combined Values
Essential criteria
- Combined Values
Academic/Professional qualification/Training
Essential criteria
- NMC Registered Nurse (appropriate to clinical speciality)
- Relevant nursing qualification
Desirable criteria
- Assessor or practice supervisor qualification/experience
Experience/Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge and understanding of diverse backgrounds and perspectives.
- Experience of having worked with acute/chronically sick children or specialised transferable skills
- Understanding of professional and current issues in children’s nursing
- Understanding of Diversity and Inclusion challenges in the workplace.
- Understanding of the importance of research and evidence-based practice
- Demonstrable contribution to advancing Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in the Workplace
- Basic knowledge of computer skills
- Understating or evidence of fulfilling requirements for Revalidation
- Understanding of safeguarding issues according to Trust policies and procedures
- Understanding of principles of clinical governance (e.g. risk management, audit, quality)
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of nursing practice and innovation outside of GOSH
- Knowledge of clinical incidents and complaints and reporting
- Previous experience in the relevant specialty of post (preferably in an NHS setting)
Skills/Abilities
Essential criteria
- Ability to plan and prioritise care for patients
- Committed to family centred care
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent numeracy skills
- Good time management and teaching skills
- Ability to work well both in a team and on own initiative
- Ability to delegate tasks as appropriate
- Demonstrates Compassion in practice
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Cristiana Martins
- Job title
- Team Leader - Cardiac Cath Lab (XMR)
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02074059200
- Additional information
- Or
- Dhwani Barochia - IR Team Leader via [email protected]
- Ex 5714/5683 respectively
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