Job overview

The Cardiac Physiology department at IUHNM are seeking to appoint a patient educator to work within the cardiac device team. 

This role principally involves communicating with patients who awaiting a device or have a device that requires ongoing monitoring and surveillance. 

The role will be involve working in the cardiac rhythm management team, delivering services to patients with pacemakers,  and implantable devices ( including implantable loop recorders). 

Main duties of the job

The main duties of the job involve communicating with patients and families to provide objective education in regards to device therapy to aid decision making and informed consent.  I addition, the role involves ongoing patient education in respect to remote monitoring and disconnected monitoring.

The role requires effective working relationships with the large multidisciplinary team working the cardiac devices service at UHNM, this involves consultants. specialist nurses., senior cardiac physiologists and the wider nursing and allied health professional team. 

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential. 

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.