Job Description

An exciting opportunity to join our Cardiac Rehabilitation Team has arisen for a band 5 staff nurse, to cover maternity leave, for a 1 year fixed term post.



Under the direct supervision of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Clinical Nurse Specialist and Senior Nurses within the team, you will delivery a high quality service to people with coronary heart disease.



You should have a good understanding of coronary heart disease, including myocardial infarction, angina, coronary angioplasty, coronary bypass surgery and valve surgery.



You will work closely with cardiac rehabilitation, heart failure cardiac rehabilitation, cardiology clinical nurse specialists and cardiology consultants.



You will provide inpatient and outpatient assessment to people with coronary heart disease, identifying risk factors for health behaviour change, whilst working to national, local and trust guidelines.



Working within cardiac rehabilitation, delivery evidence based practice to people with coronary heart disease.



To assess people diagnosed as inpatients with coronary heart disease under cardiac rehabilitation remit, providing education and risk factor modification advice



To provide advice and education for safe self-management of medicines



To provide education and advice on exercise and activity post coronary heart disease events



Under supervision from senior members of the team, participate in the exercise & education sessions within cardiac rehabilitation



To work independently, within their own limitations of experience and competence



Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT , George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust .



Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.



We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.



More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.



We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman:

" The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential. "



Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.



For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification.