Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Heart Failure

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust; Rochdale; On-site; GBP 43,000 - 56,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave allowance

Flexible working opportunities

Protected hours for wellbeing

Job summary

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting for a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse/ACP to lead the community heart failure team and work with the enhanced respiratory service. The post will provide autonomous clinical decisions, manage a significant caseload, and support the virtual ward and hospital-at-home initiatives.

You will ensure evidence-based practice, maintain professional ACP standards, and contribute to teaching across nursing staff, trainees, primary care and university

Qualifications

• Advanced practice in cardiology.
• Non-medical prescribing certificate.

Responsibilities

• Lead and line manage the community heart failure team.
• Provide advanced clinical triage of new referrals, assessment and treatment of patients with heart failure.
• Determine clinical diagnosis and treatments and maintain records as an autonomous practitioner.
• Support virtual ward and hospital at home from a heart failure perspective.
• Lead in teaching and supporting junior doctors, nurses, and ACP trainees.
• Develop and review policies/guidelines related to the Heart Failure service.
• Align service with NICE/ESC/GMSCG/GMMMG guidance.

Job description

The post holder will Lead and line manage the established community heart failure team and work collaboratively with the enhanced respiratory service, in a predominantly Nurse led service in Cardiology Medicine Specialities. They will provide advanced clinical triage of new referrals, assessment and treatment of patients referred with heart failure, who may have a highly complex and/or chronic presentation. They will determine clinical diagnosis and treatments indicated and maintain records as an autonomous practitioner. They will support virtual ward and hospital at home environment from a heart failure perspective.

The post holder will provide expert clinical expertise to develop and enhance the service. This will be done in collaboration within a multidisciplinary team, enhanced respiratory team, reporting to the Nurses Consultant in cardiology and with the support of the established leads/ACP heart failure. They will ensure that evidence-based practice is inherent in all aspects of care and treatment and ensure this knowledge is disseminated throughout the clinical area, NCA and externally as appropriate., Maintain professional ACP status to ensure that the professional body requirements for registration are met and adhered to.

Act in line with theprofessional body requirements Code of Professional Conduct, professional accountability working within the 7 pillars of Clinical Governance.

Undertake a significant clinical caseload to an advanced practice standard using specialist knowledge from theoretical and practical experience.

Assess cardiology referrals from GPs, SDEC and ED autonomously, implement advice and guidance, develop management plan independently for those with heart failure and make onward referrals and ongoing reviews.

Work within the four pillars of Advanced Practice and maintain a portfolio of evidence to enhance personal and professional development.

Lead in supporting and teaching of others including Junior Drs, colleagues, nursing staff and trainee ACP's,neighbourhood teams, primary care and voluntary sector, locally and university post grad courses.

Participate in planned developments working on research, QI projects, audits, self-development and enhancing own clinical skills and knowledge.

Strategically align service to NICE/ESC/GMSCN/GMMMG guidance.

Take responsibility for development and review of policies/protocols/LocSSIPs and guidelines related to the Heart Failure service.

Provide management and leadership to B7 Heart Failure Specialist Nurses.

Hold Non-medical prescribing certificate.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including,

• a fantastic annual leave allowance
• flexible working opportunities
• protected hours for health and wellbeing activities

helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.