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Staff Nurse in Cardiology | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 12 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £29,970 - £36,483 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 11 June 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L7 8XP |
| Company: | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7171386/287-RMED-166-25 |
Summary
We are looking for caring and compassionate individuals to join our cardiology team in the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust. If you are passionate about providing the highest standards of care to patients and if nothing but the best will do we want to hear from you.
Ward 6a is a 28 bedded acute cardiology ward consisting of 28 side rooms. It often has telemetry monitored patients which require closer observation for abnormal heart rhythms. It is a face paced ward with many variations of different cardiac conditions. We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic nurses to join our team to deliver the highest standards through using great communication and prioritising skills. The trust delivers a cardiac care study day targeted at improving nursing knowledge for ECGs which each nurse on the ward completes as part of their cardiac competencies. The cardiac care study day also allows for a days rotation to the Acute Cardiac Unit to allow to complete ECG practise alongside the chest pain specialist nurses.
Cardiology experience is desirable but not essential. Newly qualified nurses welcome to apply. We offer a full preceptorship in which an assigned preceptor will help you enhance your journey into nursing.
To ensure the safety, privacy and dignity of patients at all times.
Take responsibility for a group of patients and be their named nurse.
Able to complete ECGs for the patients.
Able to or willing to expand on your skills and be able to complete venepuncture, cannulation, catheterisation and arterial blood gases.
Able to complete simple audits on the ward to ensure the highest standard of care is being delivered to the patient.
Willing to support students in developing during their placements on the ward and acting as there supervisor.
Act as a champion for an area of nursing, for example tissue viability, dementia, ANTT, and attend study days to feedback information to the ward staff.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.
Participate in maintaining a safe, comfortable and therapeutic environment for all patients and carers and maintain agreed standards of nursing care.
Determines nursing priorities and plans patient care. Informs the nurse in charge when changes in circumstances may affect patient care.
Maintain nursing records in accordance with the NMC and Trust guidelines.
Maintain and improve quality of patient care through contribution to the development of Essence of Care and clinical benchmarking within the unit
Ensure due regard is given to customs, values and spiritual beliefs of patients.
Providing information and support to patients/carers, and ensuring all those involved in the care are aware of changes in the patients’ condition.
Assist in the safe custody, checking and administration of drugs
To develop the clinical knowledge and skills to care for acutely ill patients admitted via both planned and unplanned routes.
To undertake expanded practice, under supervision, in order to optimise patient care and in accordance with ward/department and Trust policies.
Involve patients and carers in the planning and delivery of care
Ensure effective lines of communication within the ward/department multidisciplinary team
Please see attached job description for full list of responsibilities as per the NMC.
This advert closes on Monday 26 May 2025