Community Heart Failure Specialist Nurse

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Flitwick; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a Specialist Nurse for Heart Failure to manage a defined patient caseload and provide clinical assessments. The role involves working collaboratively across health and social care sectors, with responsibilities including independent prescribing and education of healthcare staff and patients. This position offers flexible working and a relocation scheme. Applicants should have experience in managing heart failure patients and strong clinical skills.

Benefits

Relocation support up to £10,000

Flexible working arrangements

Equal opportunities employer

Qualifications

• Experience in managing heart failure patients.
• Strong clinical skills and ability to work independently.
• Experience in educational roles, training staff and patients.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical assessments for patients at home.
• Manage a caseload of patients with chronic heart failure.
• Deliver heart failure education to healthcare staff and patients.

Skills

Clinical assessments

Independent prescribing

Education and training

Collaboration across sectors

Job description

The overall aim of the community heart failure service is to prevent avoidable hospital admissions as well as improving patient's knowledge and understanding of their own condition. Clinical aims are to optimise medical therapy and refer on to hospital colleagues for advanced heart failure non-medical management.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide clinical assessments to enable patients to optimise or maintain their health and independence within the home.
• Help patients achieve optimum quality of life irrespective of where they are in their disease progression.
• Work collaboratively across health, social care, voluntary and private sectors to provide a seamless service for all service users.

The post holder will support in the delivery of high-quality Heart Failure nursing services throughout the trust to minimise and reduce the impact of heart failure ensuring a seamless, co-ordinated and timely approach to care.

As a Specialist Nurse for HF, you will:

• Manage a defined patient caseload, including independent prescribing.
• Work with Primary Care Staff providing specialist advice and support on HF to develop high levels of clinical competence and performance in all areas of Chronic HF.
• Organise the education of nurses, medical staff, allied health professionals (AHP's), patients and carers and participate in heart failure teaching development where appropriate.

Our Organisation

We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in The City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton.

We are committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve.

What We Offer

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. We also offer a relocation scheme, which could support you with up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from people with lived experience of health difficulties, with insight and understanding of different backgrounds, cultures and lifestyles.