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Band 7 Lead Specialist Nurse – Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD)
Location: Glenfield Hospital, Leicester
Department: East Midlands Congenital Heart Disease Level 1 Centre (EMCHC)
About The Role
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, motivated and highly skilled Registered Nurse to join the Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD) team at Glenfield Hospital as the Lead Specialist Nurse. This Band 7 post offers a pivotal leadership role with responsibility for nursing service management, clinical leadership, and strategic development within a nationally recognised ACHD service.
About The Service
The ACHD Specialist Nursing Team operates within the East Midlands Congenital Heart Disease Level 1 Centre (EMCHC), providing expert, specialist care to adult congenital heart patients across Leicester and the wider East Midlands region. The service includes inpatient care, outpatient clinics, and specialised outreach to peripheral centres, ensuring equitable access to high-quality ACHD care throughout the network.
Why Join Us?
Glenfield Hospital’s ACHD service is a dynamic, forward-thinking team with a commitment to delivering outstanding care. This role offers a unique chance to lead a specialist nursing service within a nationally recognised centre, influence service growth, and make a real difference in the lives of patients living with congenital heart disease.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and manage the specialist nursing team, fostering a supportive and professional environment that promotes continuous learning, high standards of clinical care, and staff development.
- Coordinate the ACHD outpatient service, ensuring efficient clinic operations and excellent patient and family experience.
- Provide expert nursing care and support to a complex patient cohort undergoing cardiac catheterisations, cardiac surgeries, diagnostic assessments, maternal medicine and transitional care.
- Collaborate closely with the multidisciplinary team—including Cardiologists, Surgeons, Clinical Psychologists, Physiologists, Cardiographers, and Healthcare Support Workers—to ensure holistic patient-centred care and to contribute to multidisciplinary case reviews and treatment planning.
- Lead quality improvement initiatives, clinical audits, and service development projects to enhance patient outcomes and service delivery.
- Promote patient safety, governance, and adherence to best practice guidelines within the ACHD service.
- Represent the nursing team within regional networks and national forums, contributing to the ongoing development of congenital heart disease care standards.
- Be visible, accessible and responsive to the needs of service users, patients, carers and the public.
- Act as an expert clinical practitioner and professional role model within the team and across the wider organisation.
Our new strategy, developed with the support and feedback of colleagues, patients, and partners, is our compass for the next seven years (2023-2030).
We Have Four Primary Goals
- high-quality care for all,
- being a great place to work,
- partnerships for impact, and
- research and education excellence
And we will embed health equality in all we do - taking active steps to reduce the avoidable differences in healthcare that some people face, working in partnership with communities.
Our strategy is underpinned by new values and we will work to ensure they are an everyday reality for all:
- we are compassionate,
- we are proud,
- we are inclusive, and
- we are one team
This is an exciting moment as we look to the future with clarity on what we already do well and where we need to focus our energies to make an even bigger difference for the people we serve.
About The University Hospitals Of Leicester NHS Trust
http://www.leicestershospitals.nhs.uk/aboutus/work-for-us/current-vacancies/
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sammy Moran Job title: Matron Email address:
[email protected] Telephone number: 07921522131
