A Vacancy at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
• We offer cardiac screening for patients affected or at risk of inherited cardiac conditions.
• The ICC team also has a unique specialty of sports cardiology, providing advice and care to athletes with underlying cardiac conditions, allowing for unique opportunities to learn about the cardiac care of an athlete.
• This is an exciting time for service development with our team, with ongoing plans to advance our care and the role of the specialist nurse within our service.
• With all that in mind I am hoping that you are an experienced cardiac nurse who is interested in advancing their specialist cardiac knowledge or has an interest in inherited cardiac conditions.
• The post offers an excellent opportunity to develop skills in ECG recognition, arrhythmia and device management, and the expert understanding of ICC’s and genomic healthcare.
• Formal and informal teaching, developing autonomous practice and service development will also be encouraged.
• At St George’s job satisfaction and professional development is important to us and we have an incredibly supportive team within cardiology to ensure that you develop your skills and career.
• I would be more than happy to show you around and go through the job role in more details.
• This is a fixed term post for 12 months with the potential for substantive recruitment.
• The ICC team at St George’s Hospital offers specialised care for the diagnosis, symptoms evaluation and management of patients and families affected with inherited cardiovascular conditions.
• We are a multidisciplinary team working across South-West London receiving supra-regional referrals from Surrey and the UK.
• We work in close partnership with the Charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) with a focus on families with unexplained sudden death (Sudden Arrhythmic Death Syndrome – SADS).
• The service offers dedicated clinics with a family centred approach providing an integrated "one stop" shop assessment.
• Clinics are dedicated to cardiomyopathies, inherited arrhythmias, paediatric arrhythmias, familial evaluation after a sudden cardiac death, sports cardiology, as well as an aortopathy service.
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Please see the attached job description and person specification which contains more information about the role.
This advert closes on Friday 6 Dec 2024
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