About this role
Job summary
Join our Advanced Practitioner (AP) team and play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care across Cardiology and Cardiac Sciences services.
This exciting opportunity is open to both Registered Nurses with NMC registration and Allied Health Professionals with HCPC registration, offering the chance to work at an advanced level of clinical practice within one of the UK's leading specialist cardiac centres.
In this role, you will autonomously assess, diagnose and manage patients across a wide range of cardiac pathways, including elective admissions, emergency admissions, transfers from referring hospitals and step-down patients from critical care. You will undertake advanced clinical assessment, formulate management plans, request and interpret diagnostic investigations, and prescribe medications within your scope of practice.
Working closely with consultants and the wider multidisciplinary team, you will support patients throughout their admission, intervention and discharge, ensuring delivery of evidence-based care and excellent patient outcomes.
The role is also central to the operational management of Cardiac Services. You will hold the Cardiac Bed Manager Bleep, coordinating admissions, transfers, repatriations and discharges across Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Services. Your advanced communication, leadership and clinical reasoning skills will be essential in maintaining safe and effective patient pathways across the service.
Main duties of the job
Work autonomously and collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team to assess, diagnose, treat and manage patients across Cardiology and Cardiac Sciences services. The post holder will hold the Bed Manager bleep, coordinating patient flow across Cardiology and Cardiothoracic Services. This includes facilitating timely admissions, transfers, repatriations and discharges, ensuring effective utilisation of specialist cardiac beds, and working closely with site teams, consultants, referring hospitals and multidisciplinary colleagues to optimise capacity and support safe, efficient patient care pathways The post holder will be responsible for managing admissions, transfers, discharges and step-down patients from critical care areas. They will undertake advanced clinical assessment, request and interpret investigations, prescribe medications, formulate treatment plans and facilitate safe and timely discharge. The role is pivotal in maintaining patient flow across the cardiac pathway, supporting transfers from referring hospitals and ensuring patients receive high-quality, evidence-based care throughout their admission and follow-up.
About us
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
Environmental sustainabilityClimate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people's health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan.
Job description Job responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person Specification
Education/ qualifications Essential
Current professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a Registered Nurse or the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) as an Allied Health Professional. Advanced or Intermediate Life Support Provider Evidence of accredited postgraduate Level 6 or above education in a relevant subject (e.g. Physical Assessment, Clinical Examination, Clinical Reasoning). Independent Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification. Master's degree in Advanced Practice (or working towards completion).
Desirable
Degree relevant to professional registration. Relevant post-registration specialist qualification in Cardiology, Cardiac Sciences or Acute Care. Teaching and Assessing Qualification.
Experience Essential
Recent and significant postregistration experience within Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Acute Medicine or a related speciality. Excellent understanding and experience in the recognition and management of cardiac emergencies. Experience in the management and treatment of cardiac patients. Familiarity with NICE guidance and other relevant cardiac clinical standards.
Desirable
Database management experience. Experience of bed management, patient flow coordination, capacity management and operational decisionmaking within acute hospital services. Experience of coordinating admissions, transfers, repatriations and discharges across multiple clinical areas to support effective utilisation of inpatient beds and timely patient care.
Skills/knowledge/ abilities Essential
Evidence of applying research and evidence-based practice to clinical care. Advanced clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning skills Ability to make complex decisions, prioritise workload and work effectively under pressure. Awareness of cardiac data collection and reporting requirements.
Desirable
Database management experience. Report writing experience. Service improvement experience.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Address 0_Cardiothoracic Surgery Mgmnt
London
W12 0HS
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.imperial.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)