Adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) Specialist Nurse

Practice in accordance with the Trusts core principles and values, and current national Act as an advocate for patients with congenital heart disease, ensuring a patient centred approach to the delivery of care and to meet the standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines. Participate in running cardiac clinics, both virtually and face to face, in Coventry. Respond to email and telephone advice line for patients, their carers and other clinicians on clinical and lifestyle issues and preventing inappropriate admissions to hospital. Manage a patient caseload within this speciality whilst working as part of a multidisciplinary team. Work towards demonstrating skills, including clinical history taking, cardiac assessment and physiological examination. To attend and participate in local and regional multidisciplinary meetings. To ensure that patients have access to appropriate educational literature or information in order for them to make informed choices about their ongoing
care. Promote and deliver high quality clinical care and assist in the development of the specialist service through use of evidence-based practice and clinical standards For further details of the role please see the attached job description.