Are you an experienced Cardiac Catheter Laboratory nurse? If so, an exciting opportunity has arisen for you to join the Cardiology team here at Darent Valley Hospital within the interventional specialty. You will be given allocated responsibility for specific aspects of the efficient running of the interventional cardiology service, which will be identified with the Senior Sister / Senior Charge Nurse. You will need to be an advanced and experienced clinical practitioner, with proven competence within the Cath Lab environment., The post will involve working closely with the whole cardiology team and leading the nursing team to deliver high quality care to our patients. You will be a skilled and competent scrub and circulating nurse who has the ability to teach junior members of staff in the Cath Lab.

You will be responsible for the day to day management of the Heart Centre Cath Lab services and will be expected to deputise for the Senior Sister/Charge Nurse in their absence. This will include acting as a senior clinical source of expertise for interventional cardiology procedures, and maintaining standards of nursing care at optimum levels in the Heart Centre.

Darent Valley Hospital strives to deliver high quality care to our patients and all staff are to follow 'Our behaviours' of caring with compassion, striving to excel, respect and dignity, professional standards and working together. We are a unified cardiology team who work closely together and there are ample opportunities to learn and develop from our multidisciplinary team.