Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video

Job overview

Band 6 - Cardiology Clinician (Nurse)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Cardiac Nurse to work with our Cardiac teams in BHR. The BHR teams include Havering, Redbridge, Barking & Dagenham. 

This Band 6 role provides a fantastic opportunity to develop your Cardiac clinical skills by receiving dedicated training and a structured competency plan, supported by clinical leads.

 We are looking for clinical staff who are passionate about the care they give to patients and who want to make a real difference in these areas. You will work in and be supported by, a multi-disciplinary care team including nurses, doctors, therapists and psychologists. Each long term conditions will be supported with a Professional Lead to support with complex cases and to continuously improve the quality of service that is consistent across the patient’s journey.

This vacancy is for a Cardiology Clinician (Nurse)

Main duties of the job

To effectively assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for patients presenting with cardiac disease To represent the service and provide information to service users as required GPs, Primary and secondary care professionals, voluntary organisations, patients and their carers. To provide safe practice to all patients referred to the BHR Community Cardiology Service and liaise with Primary and Secondary Care Practitioners regarding the care and medical management of patients with cardiology problems. To provide specialist cardiology advice to colleagues working in other clinical areas and act as the patients advocate

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff). 

High Cost Area Supplement - London

This post attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735 per annum).

Certificates of Sponsorship

Although we are a registered sponsor organisation, we are unable to offer sponsorship for all job roles. Please check your eligibility under the UKVI points based system. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details on this vacancy.

At NELFT, we have secured significant and long-term Transformation funding and are undertaking an ambitious and exciting programme of co-design for our Long Term Condition Community services, with our partners in the CCG and secondary care. Our aim will be to improve and enhance our service delivery to meet the challenges that face our population in Barking and Dagenham, Havering and Redbridge through integration and collaboration. We want to improve patient outcomes across Long Term Conditions, to help our residents lead lives free from the burden of these diseases by having extended access in the community settings to our services 7 days per week, collaborative working with our partners and expanding our multi-disciplinary teams.

In return, we at NELFT can further offer you access to dedicated and personalised training and development in your chosen speciality (following a skills assessment), flexible working with our blended approach to new ways of working including rotational opportunities across our multiple Long Term Conditions pathways and an unmissable chance to be part of something great that will shape the delivery of these services for years to come.

If you think you have the right skills, attitude, and enthusiasm that you can bring to this exciting transformation, we would really love to hear from you.

Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

NVQ level 2 or equivalent standard of literacy and numeracy Registered Clinician (NMC/HCPC) to degree level or equivalent

Experience

Essential criteria

Post registration training or equivalent experience in Coronary heart disease management Minimum of 1 years’ experience of caring for patients with cardiac conditions Evidence of post registration development and continued learning Further training or equivalent experience in ECG interpretation

Other

Essential criteria

To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.