Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to recruit an Advanced Practitioner  to  supplement the Cardiology Assessment Team.  The role requires a considerable degree of autonomous practice and broad cardiology knowledge, good communication skills to liaise effectively within a large multi disciplinary team and good organisational skills.

The Cardiac Assessment Team are going to be  developing a coordinators role to improve the efficiency  of  interhospital transfer of patients across the West Midlands who have had  NSTEMI's and require Percutaneous Coronary Intervention.  This role will provide an excellent opportunity to make a difference to treatment times and length of stay for Cardiology patient's across the West Midlands and subsequently enhance the patient pathway.

The successful applicant will work closely with the NHSE, West Midlands Cardiac Network and with the team will develop novel pathways within the region.

Main duties of the job

The applicant will work autonomously but with strong support from the West Midlands NHSE cardiovascular network and the West Midlands  NHSE cardiovascular network ACS Lead, Professor James Cotton. Local support will also be provided by the RWT Cardiac Assessment Team.

The successful applicant will form strong links with the clinicians and Cardiac Assessment Teams at all of the secondary and tertiary centres across the West Midlands and will be instrumental in developing new referral pathways and processes to aid rapid, high quality treatment for patients with NSTEMI across the region. A suitably qualified candidate might be able to maintain some clinical practice, for one day a week within the RWT cardiac assessment team, although this is not mandated.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve.  We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.