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Inherited Cardiac Conditions Nurse Specialist
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
190-0833-DIR
Employer
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Northern General Hospital
Town
Sheffield
Salary
£47,810 - £54,710 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
05/10/2025 23:59
Interview date
23/10/2025

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Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust logo

Inherited Cardiac Conditions Nurse Specialist

NHS AfC: Band 7

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

Job overview

This post provides an exciting opportunity for an appropriately trained nurse to become an integral part of the established South Yorkshire Regional Services ICC service. The Inherited Cardiac Conditions service (ICC) provides a specialist service for a diverse group of familial conditions that affect the heart and major blood vessels, which can be divided into 5 main sub-specialist areas: Cardiomyopathies, Ion Channelopathies, Aortopathies, Neuromuscular conditions and Familial Hypercholesterolaemia.

The post holder will carry continuing responsibility for the assessment of care needs, the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and the settings of standards of care. The jobholder will provide specialist advice to a specific patient group and will contribute to the development of the speciality service. The ICC nurse provides specialist nursing care to both newly referred patients and patients under follow-up in the service with the above conditions. This includes not only the management and treatment of patients diagnosed with the condition but also their relatives at risk of developing the condition. This is done through a clinical screening process. ICC patients can develop serious complications as a result of their condition, including MI, heart failure, arrhythmia, vessel dissections and sudden death. The coordination of investigations and interpretation of the results is fundamental to the role.

Main duties of the job

Excellent communication and organisational skills are essential as the successful applicant will act as a source of expertise and knowledge for patients, relatives, and health professionals, and be able to identify patients and relative’s individual specific needs. You will be a point of contact providing support and information for patients with inherited cardiovascular conditions, also providing advice, screening information and supportive counselling as required. You will be responsible for the management of nurse led clinics and your own diverse caseload, working autonomously making independent decisions, completing nurse-led procedures such as ajmaline provocation tests providing feedback to the lead Consultant Cardiologist regarding the decisions made.

If successful your role will include acting as a resource for other health care professionals, providing expert advice and information when required. You will have the ability to work effectively within a team as the role also involves collaboration with the Cardiologists in the care of patients with inherited cardiac conditions and liaising with other specialties including Echocardiography; ECG; Neuromuscular services; Clinical Genetics; Surgeons; Coroners; Geneticists and Paediatric services when required. This also includes facilitating the transition of children aged 13+ years to adult services and working across District General Hospital (DGH) sites to assist in the provision of our established ICC outreach service.

Working for our organisation

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Registered Nurse (Level 1)
  • NMC Registered
  • Non-Medical Prescribing
  • To have completed the national practice assessor training or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification for those with ENB998.
  • Continuous Professional Development
  • Masters degree or working towards (academic level 7)
  • Specialist training relevant to role
  • Advanced Health Assessment qualification (or willing to work towards)
Desirable criteria
  • Relevant post registration qualification relevant to role

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Extensive post registration experience within cardiology/cardiothoracic
  • Relevant experience at Band 6 level
  • Experience of working collaboratively across professional and organisational boundaries
  • Experience of caseload management
  • Ability to demonstrate expert knowledge, training and experience
Desirable criteria
  • Service development and/or change management
  • Audit and standard setting
  • Level 3 Safeguarding
  • Experience of working with ICC patients

Futher Training

Essential criteria
  • Able to demonstrate sound clinical knowledge and skills within the speciality
  • Willing to undergo training as necessary

Special Skills / Aptitudes

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work autonomously and make independent decisions
  • Ability to develop and drive forward innovative practice with a flexible approach to service provision
  • Ability to motivate colleagues to develop the service
  • Able and willing to undertake relevant training and education
  • Ability to participate in and initiate research
  • Proven communication and interpersonal skills
  • Excellent time management and organisational skills
  • Flexible with working pattern and needs of the service
  • Clinical role model and clinical resource/support
  • Ability to interpret 12 lead Electrocardiograms
Desirable criteria
  • Computer literate
  • Expanded nursing roles e.g. venepuncture & cannulation
  • Evidence of leadership skills
  • Demonstrates teaching and development & support skills

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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
Paul Cattell
Job title
Matron, Cardiology
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
0114 2266396
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