The Heart Centre at the University Hospital of North Midlands is a tertiary centre delivering high quality cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery to the population of Staffordshire, Shropshire, East Cheshire and North Wales.
We provide a 24 hour primary PCI service with our own dedicated emergency portal via a 13 bedded Coronary Care Unit providing invasive and non invasive care for patients with acute coronary syndromes and life threatening arrythmias.
Co-located to this are our inpatient beds which provide state of the art real time monitoring.
We currently have an exciting opportunity for an experienced acute cardiology nurse to join the UHNM Cardiac Catheter Lab team. You will develop skills in both the catheter labs and recovery area of this busy tertiary centre. We undertake over 500 TAVI and structural heart procedures annually in addition to a busy emergency and elective PCI service. We provide a high volume complex pacing and electrophysiology service.
You will participate in innovative and specialised, evidence based nursing practice as part of a dynamic multidisciplinary team. We recognised that investing in and developing our team is fundamental to the provision of safe, high quality patient care. You will act as a credible and professional role model whilst developing both personally and professionally to achieve your potential as a cath lab nurse. You will epitomise our values of kind, together and excellent and will ensure nursing practice aligns to professional and national guidelines.
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.
Cath lab nurse, scrub and run during a variety of invasive catheter lab procedures.
Recovery nurse providing pre and post procedure care for emergency and elective patients. Provision of pre assessment clinic.
Participation in 24/7 on call service.
Provision of high quality, evidence-based nursing care.
Commitment to professional development and learning.
