King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Structural Heart Clinical Research Nurse Specialist
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About the Role
Join our renowned Structural Heart Team as a Clinical Nurse Specialist, combining expert clinical care with an exciting research portfolio. We are seeking a highly motivated, compassionate, and proactive nurse committed to delivering the highest standards of patient care, with excellent clinical judgement, communication, and organisational skills.
Key Responsibilities
- Working autonomously within the multidisciplinary team, you will coordinate the patient journey from referral to long-term follow-up for patients undergoing structural heart procedures, including TAVI, mitral and tricuspid interventions, LAAO, PFO closure, and other advanced therapies.
- Provide specialist clinical, educational, and psychosocial support, ensuring patients and their families are informed, prepared, and supported throughout their care.
- Coordinate a portfolio of structural heart research studies with the Cardiac Research Team, identifying and recruiting participants, supporting informed consent, monitoring patient safety, collecting high-quality study data, and ensuring compliance with ICH-GCP, study protocols, and regulatory requirements.
Duties
- Deliver expert, autonomous specialist nursing care and manage a caseload of structural heart patients.
- Coordinate seamless patient pathways through effective MDT communication and collaboration.
- Provide education, counselling, written information, and ongoing clinical and telephone support to patients and carers.
- Lead nurse-led clinics and contribute to service development, audit, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice.
- Coordinate clinical research studies, ensuring participant safety, accurate data collection, and compliance with ICH-GCP and research governance.
- Support informed consent for both clinical procedures and research participation.
- Develop and implement clinical protocols and care pathways to enhance continuity, quality, and equity of care.
- Educate and mentor multidisciplinary colleagues and contribute to the development of specialist nursing practice.
- Assist with the management of stock and resources for structural heart procedures within the Cardiac Catheter Laboratories.
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About the Trust
The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. Transforming Healthcare is the vision at the heart of the King’s Strategy – 2026 to 2031. Together, we are pursuing six strategic ambitions: delivering high-quality patient care; being a great place to work; leading pioneering research, innovation and education; building strong and successful partnerships; providing timely and efficient care; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability. Achieving these ambitions will require all of us to work as one Team King’s, united by a shared commitment to our values of being caring, collaborative, inclusive and innovative. By living these values every day, we will transform healthcare for our patients, our communities and each other.
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Why Join Us?
We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.
King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Esther Randall/Jonathan Breeze
- Job title: Cardiology Lead Nurse
- Email address: e.randall@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 02032992490
Informal visit advised.
Contact Esther Randall Cardiology Lead Nurse 02032992490 or Jon Breeze Lead Research Nurse 02032991285
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