Heart Failure Nurse Specialist

NHS; Huddersfield; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community health service provider in Huddersfield seeks a Heart Failure Nurse Specialist to join their team at Fartown Health Centre. The ideal candidate will have a robust cardiology background and will be responsible for managing patients with chronic heart failure. Key responsibilities include conducting assessments, developing care plans, and supporting patients in a community setting. The position offers flexible working options and invites applicants from diverse backgrounds.

Benefits

Flexible working

Generous pension scheme

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with a focus on cardiology.
• Experience in managing patients with chronic heart failure.
• Passionate about providing high-quality care.

Responsibilities

• Manage avoidance of unnecessary healthcare access for heart failure patients.
• Develop care plans and management strategies for patients and their carers.
• Deliver community clinics and perform home visits as required.

Skills

Extensive cardiology background

High standards of patient care

Heart failure assessment skills

Ability to develop self-management skills

Education

Relevant nursing qualification

Job description

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.

Main duties of the job

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.
• Assisting in delivery of community clinics and home visits as needed
• Prescribing evidence based heart failure within a heart failure formulary to optimise heart failure treatments to improve patient outcomes

About us

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.

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.

Job responsibilities

For more details about the duties and responsibilities for this role, please refer to the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

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Experience

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer name

Locala Health and Wellbeing

Address

Fartown Health Centre Spaines Road Huddersfield, HD2 2QA United Kingdom