Job Description

The Heart Centre at 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.



The level of activity within our centre continues to grow year on year and we are proud to be undertaking exciting programmes such as TAVI, atrial appendage occlusion and MICAB (minimally invasive coronary artery bypass).



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 arrhythmias.



Co-located to this are our inpatient beds which provide state of the art real time cardiac monitoring.



We currently have a vacancy providing an exciting opportunity for a band 5 registered nurse to join the team within the Heart Centre Centre Catheter Laboratories. You will participate in innovative evidence based nursing practice delivering the highest standards of care to our patients. We are a proactive in developing the specialist skills required to deliver our services, recognising that investment in and training of individuals is crucial to delivering safe, high quality patient care.



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.



Care for patients pre, intra and post procedure including roles of pre assessment nurse, recovery nurse, scrub nurse, cath lab nurse. Contribution to 24/7 on call rota.