Clinical Nurse Specialist - Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Clinical Nurse Specialist Adult Congenital Heart Disease Team (ACHD)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and experienced nurse to join the Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) team at Bristol Foundation Trust.

We are looking for someone who is a highly motivated and skilled nurse with cardiology/cardiac surgery background to join our team of nurses, doctors and allied health care professionals caring for adults born with congenital heart disease. The successful candidate must have excellent communication skills, be flexible, be able to adapt to rapidly changing situations and be confident in working independently within the team at The Bristol Heart Institute and across the South Wales and Southwest Congenital Heart Disease Network ( The applicant must have a desire for their own further education and training as well as an interest in educating others.

If you are interested in applying, we strongly recommend making contact for an informal chat about the post.

Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be responsible for providing specialist clinical advice and support to patients requiring cardiac surgery, cardiology interventions, during pregnancy and at the end of life. Young people with congenital heart disease transferring to adult services, patients with learning disabilities and those with pulmonary hypertension will also require expertise from the clinical nurse specialist. The clinical nurse specialist will be expected to work with outpatients, in-patients and give advice via the telephone and email advice line.

About us
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

Person Specification
Essential

• Be able to speak fluent English to an appropriate standard
• Organisation and management skills
• Teaching
• Ability to work effectively under pressure
• Ability to problem solve
• Flexibility, adaptability to meet needs of a changing service
• Ability to work alone or as part of a team
• Ability to cope with emotional issues presented in the course of work, and to support others
• Knowledge of national and local specialty specific issues
• IT skills including use of email and Microsoft office packages
• Act as a role model and as a mentor/assessor
• Innovative and participates with practice and policy change
• Awareness of professional responsibilities to self and others
• Commitment to the development and provision of high quality nursing care
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Awareness of current national changes in nursing / NHS
• Appropriate post registration experience in Adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) nursing, speciality
• Appropriate proven leadership and management experience
• Proven commitment and experience, evidence in teaching
• Experience as preceptor / mentor
• RGN.1st Level or relevant children's qualification
• Current NMC Registration
• 1st Degree In nursing or health related subject, willing to undertake/ working towards
• Relevant accredited post registration qualification at level 3
• Qualification in Teaching and Assessing

Desirable

• Experience of undertaking research or audit projects
• Evidence of commitment to research based practice or evidence of project work undertaken
• Willingness to work towards Masters level academic study

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Location: Bristol Heart Institute, Terrell St., Bristol, BS2 8ED
Contract: Secondment
Working pattern: Full-time
Band: Band 6 (Agenda for change)

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