Cardiology Advanced Clinical Practitioner

The service operates over 7 days. This includes BH and weekends. This is approximately every 4-6 weeks, This post is multi-faceted and involves working predominately within the Royal Derby Hospital, the community and the ambulatory heart failure unit.

To work as an advanced cardiac practitioner within the cardiology virtual ward /ambulatory heart failure unit and community setting.

Ensuring the delivery of high quality care, making critical decisions to diagnose conditions through clinical assessment and ordering and interpreting of diagnostic tests.

Within the acute trust, you will be assessing and reviewing patients who have been admitted to hospital with heart failure and cardiac problems, offer management advice and decide who may be suitable for having their care remotely. You will review patients within the ward, medical SDEC and the emergency department

In the community (home visits), patients will be assessed for their suitability for the virtual ward reviewed and plan their ongoing care.

You will also be working within the Ambulatory HF unit is where we deliver some our IV therapies (iron and diuretics).

We work closely with the cardiac physiologists for device management, will be having daily MDT's with cardiology consultants and have weekly MDT's with the heart failure cardiologists at Royal Derby Hospital.

We have recently appointed 3 highly motivated cardiology Advance cardiac practitioners and are looking for another to join our very enthusiastic and busy team; either Band 8a (if all criteria met) or Band 7 (as a training post).

We are a proactive, integrated team that already works across Acute and Community settings and this post will complement care for patients.

If you consider yourself to be dynamic, enthusiastic, dedicated and able to work on your own initiative but as part of a team, then please do apply.

Derbyshire Community Health Services has been rated as an outstanding trust by the Care Quality Commission; we have achieved this by providing high quality patient care within an inclusive organisation that works together and shows care and compassion for each other.

There has never been a more exciting time to join us as one of the largest specialist community NHS providers in the country one that is also among the very best NHS employers as voted by its own staff and by CQC.

The way the NHS works is changing; care outside of traditional hospital settings is quickly becoming a much larger part of what the NHS does.

As a leading community provider we are at the forefront of this exciting future, joining-up services in local communities to better meet the individual needs of our patients.

DCHS is a top performing NHS Trust that strives for innovation and improvement for the service and individuals that work within it