Staff Nurse (Cath Labs)

The successful candidate will be responsible for helping our routine elective lists run from Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 18:00. Outside of these operational hours, including weekday nights, weekends and bank holidays. The department provides a 24-hour on-call service to facilitate emergency and urgent cases. Full training will be given in the catheter lab including an initial 812 week supernumerary period (Depending on experience) followed by the completion of competencies. Once fully trained you will become part of the On-Call team and be rostered to cover out of hours emergencies. As a Cath Lab nurse, you will be scrubbing and circulating for a variety of cardiac catheter lab procedures. As well as supporting recovery, recovering patients post procedure including general and local anaesthetics of adults and paediatric patients. You will be responsible for promoting high standards of nursing care and multi-disciplinary working, requiring good communication and to assist with the throughput of the labs for elective, inpatients and emergencies cases. The cardiac catheter lab is committed to education, and you will have the opportunity to attend the in-house Introduction to Cardiovascular Nursing course in addition to the opportunity to attend national conferences relating to Cardiology. What were looking forWe are looking for enthusiastic, passionate and ambitious nurses who have good initiative, great communication, enjoy change and expressing new ideas as well as delivering exemplary care.