Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and experienced nurses to join our passionate Cardiac specialist nurse team at MFT. The post is a 12 month secondment covering maternity leave.

You will be at the center of our famous Cardiac specialist nurse team, providing our patients with the best journey through their pathway. This is an excellent opportunity to gain experience in a new setting and increase your Cardiac/Cardiology knowledge.

You will be supported to develop the skills to working independently and autonomously alongside a designated surgeon group and their patients. Supporting your patients through the whole of their cardiac patient journey.

You must possess excellent communication skills and a minimum of three years post registration experience and cardiac surgery and/or cardiology experience. 

Main duties of the job

The cardiac surgery specialist nurse will be expected to participate in the assessment, planning and delivery of direct patient care throughout the cardiac surgical patient journey. They will work in collaboration with the Consultant Cardiothoracic surgeons, lead specialist nurse and admin team in the scheduling of patients for theatre. They will also preoperatively assess, optimise, review and prepare patients who are listed for Cardiac surgery. They will assist in the optimisation of the non elective pathway patients ensuring they are ready for urgent surgery. They will act as an advocate, contact and support for their own caseload of patients waiting for Cardiac surgery. They will undertake any other duties deemed appropriate to the band when requested by Senior Staff.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.