Cardiac Cath Lab Sister / Charge Nurse - Band 6inGloucesterinGloucesterPUBLISHED WED 26 MAR 2025
As a key member of our expert team, you’ll provide compassionate, evidence-based care to patients and their families. We’re looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced setting, where your exceptional communication and interpersonal skills will shine. You’ll be involved in everything from assisting with procedures to providing vital pre and post-operative education. While the role demands physical resilience, your contribution to patient care will be immeasurable. If you are ready to embrace challenge and work alongside dedicated professionals in a state-of-the-art facility, apply today and help us transform cardiac care in our community.
The Cardiac Catheter Labs at Gloucestershire Hospitals are moving from strength to strength. We are expanding our team to support the growing service including on-call emergency primary angioplasty 24/7. Would you like to be part of this exciting developing service?
We are seeking an experienced nurse with a strong clinical background who is enthusiastic to further develop their clinical skills and utilize their knowledge, experience, and leadership skills. Working alongside the Cath Lab team you will contribute to the provision of excellent evidence-based patient care.
You must enjoy working in a busy environment and be a true team player. You will ensure provision of high standards of expert holistic care to patients and their relatives. Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills are essential. The job can be physically demanding and you must be able to stand for long periods in the lab wearing lead protection. You will develop and maintain a high standard of clinical skills and knowledge related to interventional cardiology. You will participate in quality improvement and development of evidence based practice within the department.
About us
Our team of experienced nurses have a varied job plan: they are trained to scrub and circulate for all procedures, provide pre and post-procedure recovery care, patient education and take calls directly from paramedics for patients who may be having a heart attack in the community. We provide emergency, acute and elective procedures for patients including primary angioplasty (PPCI), cardiac devices, diagnostic angiography and forms of invasive assessment of cardiac function, physiology and structure within the Cath labs. As part of the Cath Lab team you work closely with physiologists, radiographers and doctors. Our elective service runs Monday to Friday. We provide a PPCI service on-call rota to provide a 24/7 emergency primary angioplasty service. The role will involve on-call commitment at least once a week.
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