Interventional Cardiology Staff in Training

• as a qualified interventional cardiology employee, you earn a minimum of € 3,903 and a maximum of € 5,503 gross per month (full-time) in FWG scale 55, hospital CAO. During your training, you will retain your salary corresponding to your current position
• we offer you employment during your training for 32 to 36 hours per week with a 1-month probationary period. With a prospect of a permanent contract after graduation
• a fixed year-end bonus and holiday allowance, both 8.33%
• do you travel by public transport? Then your commuting costs will be fully reimbursed
• a flexible benefits system in which you can, for example, purchase extra leave or buy a bicycle and/or receive a contribution for a sports subscription
• unlimited access to our vitality platform 'Jouw Moment' with an extensive range for our colleagues to get started with vitality and access to the online training range from Goodhabitz

Are you a nurse and ready for a new step in your career? Does your heart beat faster for emergency care? Do you have an affinity for (medical) technology and do you want to specialize in acute cardiology? The heart-lung center team, Alkmaar location, is looking for a new colleague for the cardiac catheterization laboratories. Come join us as an interventional cardiology trainee.

interventional cardiology trainee :
In the role of interventional cardiology trainee, you provide both elective and acute (complex) care to patients who must undergo an examination or treatment in the cardiac catheterization laboratories (CCL). You work intensively with the cardiologist and are (co-)responsible for monitoring the patient, preparation, circulating duties, and providing sterile assistance during examinations and treatments such as cardiac catheterizations, percutaneous coronary interventions (stenting), pacemaker and ICD implantations. You will work in the three cardiac catheterization laboratories of the Noordwest Ziekenhuisgroep (Alkmaar location), where more than 3,500 invasive cardiological examinations and treatments are performed annually.

Read Maartje Mechielsen's story here, an interventional cardiology employee.

• We have space for just one more new colleague before April 2027.

The training to become an interventional cardiology employee is a higher professional education (HBO) level program. It is a combination of learning and working. For the theoretical training, you will go to the Amstel Academie, a training center in Amsterdam; for the practical training, you will be at Noordwest Ziekenhuisgroep.

The training begins every year in April and October and lasts approximately one and a half years depending on your previous education (+/- 6 months for basic acute care, for example in the Cardiac Care Unit, and +/- 12 months in the CCL to transition to interventional cardiology employee). During your training, you will also shadow other areas, including the echo room and the pacemaker technician.

interventional cardiology :
We are a professional, driven, friendly, and small team that works intensively together. We expect you to contribute your part to the expertise and professionalization of our center.

Our working hours are between 08:30 and 17:00 on working days. Outside of these hours and on weekends, we work with on-call shifts, which you will eventually also participate in. These rotate among the CCL employees and are intended for emergency treatments outside of regular working hours.

interventional cardiology trainee :
You have a positive and professional work attitude and you look critically at your surroundings. You are communicatively skilled and open to feedback. In the role of interventional cardiology employee, we consider a flexible attitude important. You are a go-getter, result-oriented, careful, eager to learn, and you can work with concentration under pressure. Additionally, you meet the following requirements: