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Patient Educator-Cardiac Devices
| Posting date: | 12 May 2025 |
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| Salary: | £26,530.00 to £29,114.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £26530.00 - £29114.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 26 May 2025 |
| Location: | Staffordshire, ST46QG |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9205-25-0653 |
Summary
The Patient Educator will work alongside the Cardiac device team and cardiac devices specialist nurse to educate patients about implantable devices at the point of referral, whilst in hospital awaiting treatment and provide post implant education and support. The aim of this role is to ensure patients receive all relevant information required about their heart failure condition, device therapy, implant procedure, living with a device and how the device will benefit them. The patient educator will also be available to speak with patients and answer questions or escalate to the relevant person when questions are too complex. Additionally, the device educators will develop the technical expertise to support the ILR implant service at UHNM. They will form part of the large multi-disciplinary team, delivering care for device patients in order to support high quality and effective service delivery.