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Job overview

Our Cardiac Rehabilitation service at Broomfield hospital is well established  team that covers Broomfield hospital and the mid Essex region and we have a wonderful opportunity for a professional, confident Staff Nurse to join its small supportive team.

Your role will assist in supporting the current effective high quality Cardiac Rehabilitation service and the patient choice initiative,   its  future development including physical, educational, emotional, and psychological support of patients, relatives and carers enabling them to live with their disease, treatment and the implications thereafter.

You will be involved in all phases of the cardiac rehabilitation process, liaising effectively to establish and maintain professional relationships with the multi-disciplinary team, agencies, and organisations and covering both inpatients and outpatients working across all sites (Broomfield/ Maldon/witham/  Braintree districts). 

Main duties of the job

Your role will be to act as an information resource for patients, to establish good relationships with patients and their families through all phases of cardiac rehabilitation and patient choice initiative,  to help with Phase II telephone follow up calls and ensure accurate documentation and to compile comprehensive and accurate advice and discharge letters to GP's and other multi-disciplinary staff.

You will maintain a safe environment for patients attending cardiac rehabilitation as per risk assessments and protocols, assess, plan, deliver and evaluate patients care utilising an individual holistic approach, monitor all relevant Nice Guidelines and will also assist in  the planning of discharge from rehabilitation of cardiac patients including future goal setting, implementation of secondary prevention issues and informing primary care clinicians of patient’s status and future needs.

Working for our organisation

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 17,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.
 
We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
 
From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook – if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us. 

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.