Community Heart Failure Specialist Nurse

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust; Uckfield; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working options

Training opportunities

Job summary

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse to join a well-established community team on a part-time basis (22.5 hours per week), across the High Weald, Lewes and Havens, with potential to work across the SCFT footprint.

The role focuses on case management of newly diagnosed and long-standing heart failure patients, aims to optimise guideline therapies, prevent admissions, and support palliative care when appropriate.

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of heart failure management.

Responsibilities

• Provide heart failure services across the designated locality with advanced clinical assessment and medications management.
• Educate patients and provide psychological support to improve self-management.
• Collaborate with the acute HF service and attend weekly MDT.
• Support carers and signpost to appropriate services.
• Contribute to documentation and data collection for service evaluation.
• Assist in recruitment, appraisal, risk assessment and performance management.
• Provide clinical supervision and mentorship to junior colleagues.

Job description

An opportunity has arisen for a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse to work in a well-established community team. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic and innovative with excellent experience and expertise in the care and management of patients with Heart Failure. This post is a part time role of 22.5 hours per week supporting the Heart Failure patients across the communities of the High Weald , Lewes and Havens with opportunity across B&H therefore you may be requested to work across the SCFT footprint should the demand arise.

You will be case managing newly diagnosed all cause Heart Failure patients as well as those with a long-standing diagnosis, confirmed by Echocardiogram to manage their condition by initiation and optimisation of guideline medical therapies, prevention of admission and readmission, palliative care and able to apply evidence-based practice to align with local and national strategies.

The successful candidate will have expert knowledge of heart failure management and be able to utilize their physical assessment skills to facilitate clinical decision making. Patients will benefit from regular oversight of their condition and heart failure teams will gain support from University Hospital Sussex MDTs.

You will be an autonomous practitioner however, you will be part of, and supported by, existing community Heart Failure services working in bordering localities. If you do not possess the essential skills you may be offered a development post.

Main duties of the job

1. To work as a clinical expert and autonomous clinician to provide heart failure services across the designated locality, provide a seamless service for patients, involving advanced clinical assessment, symptom management, medications management, patient education and psychological care and caseload mange to ensure safe discharge back to GP with heart failure care plan where able.
2. To work in collaboration with other members of the acute HF service with access to weekly MDT.
3. Work across organisational and professional boundaries to improve quality of patient care
4. To provide education and support to other members of the multidisciplinary team
5. To ensure carers receive support and are signposted to appropriate services
6. To ensure excellent end of life care as appropriate and facilitate
7. To ensure accurate documentation and data collection to prove service.
8. Assist as delegated by the Team Leader in the recruitment of staff, appraisalprocess, risk assessment process, incidents and complaints, and theperformance management process.
9. Assist in clinical supervision and peer review including mentorship tojunior colleagues.

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.