Community Heart Failure Specialist Nurse | East London NHS Foundation Trust

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Steppingley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in Steppingley seeks a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse to deliver high-quality care and manage a caseload of heart failure patients. Responsibilities include clinical assessments, patient education, and collaboration with various sectors to ensure comprehensive care. The ideal candidate will have a nursing qualification and experience in heart failure management.

Qualifications

• Experience in managing heart failure patients.
• Ability to work independently and provide clinical assessments.
• Skills in patient education and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical assessments for heart failure patients.
• Manage daily care for heart failure patients in clinics.
• Coordinate care with health and social care sectors.

Skills

Clinical assessments

Patient education

Collaborative work

Education

Nursing qualification

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.

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. To manage the day to day care of patients with a confirmed diagnosis of Heart Failure (HF). This will involve running and maintaining specialist cardiac nurse led clinics and providing a home visiting service which will enhance the care of HF and cardiac patients within the primary care setting, thereby aiming to improve their quality of life and prevent avoidable admissions to the acute sector.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide clinical assessments that will enable patients whenever possible to optimise or maintain their health & 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 & private sectors to provide a seamless service for all service users.
• Work as a Specialist Nurse for HF managing a defined patient caseload, without day to day supervision including independent prescribing.
• Provide 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 mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.