Heart Failure Nurse Specialist

Locala Health and Wellbeing; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Heart Failure Nurse Specialist to join its team in Huddersfield. This role entails managing patient care, providing education, and conducting assessments for individuals diagnosed with chronic heart failure. The ideal candidate will have a robust background in cardiology and a passion for high-quality patient care. The position offers flexible working hours and a generous pension scheme, among other benefits.

Benefits

Flexible working

Generous pension

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in cardiology and heart failure care.
• Passion for providing high standards of patient care.
• Ability to develop care plans and educate patients.

Responsibilities

• Manage healthcare access for patients with heart failure.
• Conduct specialist heart failure assessments.
• Provide education and resources to patients and professionals.
• Deliver community clinics and home visits.
• Prescribe heart failure therapies.

Skills

Cardiology background

Clinical assessment skills

Patient education

Job description

Job Role

Heart Failure Nurse Specialist

Band 7: £46,148-52,809 (Pro-rata)

22.5 hours per week

Permanent

Responsibilities

An excellent opportunity has arisen for the right candidate to join our Integrated Community Services Business Unit as a Heart Failure Nurse Specialist based at Fartown Health Centre. Our Heart Failure Nurse Specialist team comprises of experienced specialist nurses, staff nurses and health care assistants.

The successful candidate will have an extensive cardiology background and be passionate about providing high standards of care and management for patients diagnosed with chronic heart failure condition. You will work in the community to support patients living in Huddersfield and also be a part of the wider Locala Kirklees Heart Failure Nurse Specialist service.

Key elements of the role will include:

• Providing management for avoidance of unplanned and unnecessary healthcare access related to heart failure condition
• Using and developing skills to provide specialist heart failure assessment of patients, assisting in the developing of self‑management skills for patients and their carers’ and care plans for assessing the need for other services including palliative and social care and signposting as appropriate
• The role will incorporate advice and education within the primary and secondary care environment. The role will provide a resource for healthcare professionals and patients, providing both formal and informal education and training.
• Assisting in delivery of community clinics and home visits as needed
• Prescribing evidence based heart failure therapy within a heart failure formulary to optimise heart failure treatments to improve patient outcomes

To find out more about Locala see our Thrive Strategy.

For full details about the role please see Job Description & Person Specification.

If you wish to have a discussion about the role please contact Sarah Hellewell by emailing [e-mail].

Please note – this position may be subject to DBS check.

Closing date –

We reserve the right to close the vacancy earlier than the stated date should we receive sufficient applications.

About us

Here at Locala we are part of the community and have often cared for generations within the same family and continue to be part of the NHS family also delivering care under the same ethos.

Locala Health and Wellbeing embraces diversity and inclusion and encourages applicants from people from all backgrounds with our ambition to have a workforce that represents the wider communities we live and work within, which you can support us to achieve.

We are an organisation that celebrates and values the individuality of our colleagues lived experiences and can adapt accordingly, recognising the value inclusivity brings when delivering equitable, high quality healthcare to our local communities. Where everyone feels valued, has the ability to develop, has flexible working opportunities, with a sense of belonging, supported by our Inclusivity Groups.

“Locala is a ‘Disability Confident’ employer and as such any disabled applicants who meets all the essential criteria are guaranteed to be invited to the assessment process.”

Benefits

Just a few of the benefits you can enjoy:

• Flexible working – We are committed to supporting our colleagues to have a good work‑life balance and welcome conversations about flexible working wherever possible.
• Generous pension – We offer a generous, defined contribution, pension scheme with matched contribution + 2% up to a maximum of 8%
• Refer a Friend Scheme – If you know a friend or family member who works at Locala on a substantive contract, you may be able to take advantage of our Refer a Friend Scheme. You both could receive a reward of £500 each, after you have successfully started your role with us.