Cardiac Rehabilitation Clinical Nurse Specialist

Would you like to be part of a team who is friendly, motivated to improve patient care, and looking forward to the future?,

• To assist in providing an integrated cardiac rehabilitation (CR) service primarily for residents within ABUHB, working closely with primary and secondary care.
• To provide care for patients in a holistic manner incorporating physical and psychological care to enable them to live with a cardiac condition.
• To work as an independent and autonomous practitioner within a multidisciplinary team, ensuring that patients with Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), those recovering from cardiac surgery, ICD implantation, or diagnosed with Heart Failure, receive the highest standards of care and comprehensive support from diagnosis through every stage of their condition.
• Demonstrate excellent clinical assessment skills with a view to optimising patient's medication.
• To provide professional support, clinical expertise and appropriate education and training to all those professionals involved in providing care to patients .
• To assist in leading and developing CHD and Heart Failure care to meet the requirements of the NSF quality requirements and NICE/ESC guidelines ensuring a continuous process of evaluation.
• Undertake an active role in promoting and carrying out research in conjunction with other health professionals - seeking to have work published.
  
  The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
  
  Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work. Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.