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Job summary

Main area
Cardiology
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
214-MED-7372554
Employer
Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Kings Mill Hospital
Town
Sutton in Ashfield
Salary
for the right candidate a development post will be considered.
Closing
14/08/2025 23:59

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Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Arrhythmia Nurse Specialist

NHS AfC: Band 7

Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.

Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

We would love you to join us.

Job overview

Are you ready to take your nursing career to the next level?

We are excited to offer an outstanding opportunity for a highly motivated Arrhythmia Nurse Specialist to join our progressive and supportive cardiac services team. This role is central to the delivery of a high-quality, patient-centred cardiac arrhythmia management service, spanning both acute hospital care and community-based settings.

As a key member of our multi-disciplinary team, you will provide expert clinical leadership and specialist nursing care to patients with a range of cardiac arrhythmias. You will work autonomously and collaboratively to ensure timely assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, while supporting patients and their families throughout their care journey.

This is a dynamic and rewarding role that offers the chance to make a real difference in the lives of patients with complex cardiac needs. You’ll be supported by a team that values innovation, compassion, and professional development, with opportunities to grow your expertise and influence service delivery at a strategic level.

Main duties of the job

  •  You will share responsibility with your fellow Nurse Specialists to delegate, support and educate the junior members of the team.
  •   Ensure NMC codes of conduct are adhered to.
  • To ensure that all local and national HR policies, procedures and guidelines are adhered to and report any failure to do so appropriately.
  • To undertake the role of Nurse Independent Prescriber within the Arrythmia service and in line with Trust policy, professional regulatory and national guidance.
  • To maintain competency in prescribing according to level of prescribing qualification and participate in regular continuing professional development in relation to the role.
  • To prescribe in accordance with the Trust’s Medicine code ,its Non -Medical Prescribing Policy and other local and national prescribing guidance.
  • To prescribe within the limits of their individual competencies and approved Scope of practice/Formulary.
  • To be a highly skilled practitioner, leading innovation and demonstrating clinical expertise.  The post holder will act as a resource and advisor in their area of expertise to colleagues in 
    other wards and departments through the Trust

Working for our organisation

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire. 

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation. 

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands. 

Not all of our roles are eligible for sponsorship to find out which roles are eligible for sponsorship please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for full information on role and responsibilities. 

Person specification

Knowledge Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Participated in service development and implementation of change
  • Ability to communicate unpleasant /sensitive information to patients in a variety of settings
  • Able to influence and overcome resistance through application of advanced communication skills
  • Able to analyse data and provide written reports
  • Intermediate IT skills in word processing and spreadsheets
  • Able to manage work autonomously. Demonstrate strong organisational and time management skills
  • Knowledge of professional and NHS issues, and policy relating to specialist area
  • Able to present information to professional groups
  • Able to perform assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care
  • Able to perform advanced clinical skills
  • Evidence of motivation and ability to motivate others
  • Assertive, ability to work well under pressure and as team member
  • Ability to lead from senior position, evidence of strong leadership qualities
  • Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues across health and social care setting

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • RGN
  • Diploma/Degree or working towards Post-registration qualification in specialist area i.e ENB 124 or equivalent
  • Teaching and assessing

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Broad range of clinical experience and several years experience in Cardiology
  • Evidence of in-depth knowledge of how to care for patients within the arrhythmia service
  • Participated in service development and implementation of change
  • Experience of teaching and assessing in the clinical area

Contractual Requirements

Essential criteria
  • Car owner / Driver
  • Good attendance record
  • Able to perform a wide range of duties

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Apprenticeships logoNo smoking policyPathway to excellenceCare quality commission - GoodCarer Friendly Employer 2021Mindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.Disability confident employerCare4NottsTime to changeFair Train Silver StandardStep into healthNational Preceptorship for Nursing Quality MarkArmed Forces Covenant

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Emma wilson
Job title
matron
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01623 622515
Additional information

ext 3091

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