Role Summary
This is a very rewarding role, which offers opportunities for learning and enhancing specialist skills and knowledge. The post holder will work in a variety of settings and be able to make a huge difference to the care of patients living with heart failure.
About the Role
We will work together to maintain a culture that develops and supports you and your team.
This might include funding for a care certificate, a degree or leadership qualifications. Or it might include days off to study, engage in CPD or rotational placements to help you hone your skills. Wherever you are heading in the NHS, we'll help you get there.
Looking after you is important to us.
We strive to help our staff create a healthy work-life balance through flexible working schemes and our family friendly policies.
If you're starting out in the NHS, you’ll start with 27 days paid annual leave (plus bank holidays), rising to 33 days plus bank holidays.
You'll benefit from access to our own comprehensive occupational health services, including counselling, onsite wellbeing activities and groups.
Salary is not the only financial benefit
You'll have access to an extensive range of staff discounts on shopping, fitness and leisure options and you can spread the cost of technology and home appliance purchases from major retailers. You will also have access to other benefits including:
- National discount services such as the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts.
- Salary sacrifice options including our OFSTED rated outstanding nursery onsite at Exeter
- Car lease schemes.
- The NHS Pension scheme (one of the most generous and comprehensive in the UK).
- Cycle to work scheme
These are just a few of the benefits available – if the role is something you are interested in, we'd love to hear from you.
About Us
For more information on the Job Description and Responsibilities please click the link below.
More detail about the role
An opportunity has arisen for an a registered nurse or pharmacist, with extensive experience within Cardiology, to join our established heart failure service, working as part of the wider cardiac support team in Barnstaple. The post holder will provide care and support to patients living with heart failure, offering advice and providing management plans to reduce symptomatic burden and improving quality of life.
The cardiac support team consists of arrhythmia care, cardiac rehabilitation nurse and heart failure nurse services, who work collaboratively with consultant cardiologists, cardiorespiratory and primary care teams to provide holistic management, support and rehabilitation to patients with various cardiac conditions. The team is well supported and championed by the consultant cardiologists, which has supported a driven and determined team to provide care of an exceptional quality.
The heart failure service provides clinic based support in the local DGH and community hospitals across the beautiful countryside of North Devon, with those patients who are unable to attend clinic offered home visits. There is also a significant amount of telephone contact to help monitor patients response to treatment changes and help avoid hospital admissions. The service has expanded to involve in-reach support and management to those admitted to NDDH, and the post holder will be expected to contribute to this area of care.
We would encourage both nurses and pharmacists, who have a passion for cardiology to apply for this post. We are predominantly a nurse led service, but have experienced the real value of a multi-disciplinary team, with pharmacists and other professionals providing a crucial contribution to patient care and enriching the knowledge / experience of our teams. We are keen to ensure our team / service continues to benefit from several disciplines, but will judge suitable candidates based on prior knowledge and experience, without favouring any particular profession.
Applicants who wish to work in our small, but friendly team of professionals, should be highly motivated and an enthusiastic team player, with an empathy and passion for caring for patients living with cardiac conditions. You should have excellent interpersonal skills and a professional manner; managing your workload on a day to day basis in response to the demands of the service.
Our team is forward thinking and dynamic, continuously seeking ways to provide consistent high levels of care and would welcome an enthusiastic and proactive candidate.
If you feel you would be able to contribute positively to our team and the care of our patients, we would be pleased to hear from you and would welcome informal enquiries. For those willing, there would be opportunities to shadow and spend time with the team.
If you do not meet the full person profile, but are keen to develop, it is possible that we would consider a developmental post at Band 6. An agreement and plan would be made together to achieve progress towards Band 7.
Working Pattern: Monday- Friday 9am -5pm
Interview Date: 21st December 2022
For further information please contact Poppy Brooks, Lead ACP Cardiac Support Services or Angela Tithecott, Lead ACP for Heart Failure on 01271 311633 poppy.brooks@nhs.net angela.tithecott@nhs.net
Preference will be given to staff with ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust reserves the right to close vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.
The Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust was established in April 2022, bringing together the expertise of both the Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust and Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust.
Benefits
Stretching across Northern, Eastern and Mid Devon, we have a workforce of over 15,000 staff, making us the largest employer in Devon. Our core services, which we provide to more than 615,000 people, cover more than 2,000 square miles across Devon, while some of our specialist services cover the whole of the peninsula, extending our reach as far as Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
We deliver a wide range of emergency, specialist and general medical services through North Devon District Hospital and the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital (Wonford). Alongside our two acute hospitals, we provide integrated health and social care services across a variety of settings, including community inpatient hospitals, outpatient clinics, and within people’s own homes. We also offer primary care services, a range of specialist community services, and Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC).
Our state-of-the-art equipment, leading technologies and strong links to local universities put us at the forefront of research and innovations, enabling us to provide world-class care to our local communities.
It’s never been a more exciting time to join the Royal Devon, as you'll help to shape our services as we continue along our integration journey.
