Community Cardiac Rehabilitation Worker

• To assist the Registered Nurses and Physiotherapists and work autonomously in providing high quality patient care within the Community Setting.
• Checking baseline observations, signs and symptoms prior to delivering the prescribed, individualised exercise plan and set goals.
• The job includes covering cardiac rehabilitation phase 3 group work at four Centres across the City alongside a Cardiology Specialist Nurse as required.
• Car Driver is essential.
• Ongoing support, clinical supervision and the relevant training will be provided

• To abide by Trust policies and procedures
• To assist the Registered Nurses or other registered health care practitioners in providing high quality patient care within a community setting and in patients own homes
• Maintain patients privacy and dignity at all times
• Be an effective part of the multi-disciplinary team contributing to the departmental objectives
• Continue to develop and maintain competencies in nursing tasks to maintain high quality safe care
• To work with a physiotherapist and nursing staff to deliver exercise programmes in the patients home and community venues
• To provide cover for the cardiac rehabilitation centre group classes in the absence of the band 4 fitness instructor.

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Cramlington Manor Walks
• Urgent treatment centres
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

Essential

• Ability to maintain and improve knowledge, skills and competence to ensure high standards of patient care.
• Ability to carry out routine elements of assessment to enhance the patient / client journey, following an initial assessment by a registered practitioner
• Ability to meet basic care needs of patients
• Understanding of confidentiality

Essential

• Basic IT skills
• Ability to be responsible for own development, identifying training needs, set personal objectives and attend appropriate training as agreed by line manager.
• Ability to initiate emergency action when required e.g. Cardiac arrest, Fire.
• Car driver / owner

Essential

• Ability to plan, prioritise own and delegated work tasks and activities.
• Previous experience / consolidation of practice as a HCA (evidence of knowledge attained at level 3 using the Qualifications and Credit Framework)