Heart Failure Specialist Nurse

Tameside Hospital; Ashton; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse at Band 6/7 to deliver high-quality care across hospital and community settings in Ashton-Under-Lyne. The role is 37.5 hours per week on a fixed-term 12-month basis, with secondment considered.

Applicants may start at Band 6 if yet to possess specialist heart failure qualifications, with support to develop to Band 7.

Qualifications

• Qualified Non-medical Prescriber.
• Current HFSN at Band 6+ with heart failure experience.
• Experience in chronic disease management and clinical audits.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical care for a caseload of patients using advanced specialist skills and knowledge to undertake full assessments of patients with chronic heart failure.
• Provide support to patients, families and carers ensuring clear communication about diagnosis, treatment and self-management.
• Accountable for own professional actions and clinical decisions, acting as an advanced independent practitioner/decision maker.
• Work with multidisciplinary teams in hospital and community settings and contribute to the National Heart Failure Audit.

Skills

Heart failure knowledge

Clinical decision making

Multi-disciplinary teamwork

Education

Qualified Non-medical Prescriber

Job description

Main area Cardiology Grade Band 7 Contract Fixed term: 12 months (Secondment considered) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 245-NAM7CAR-07-26-B

Site Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Tust Town Ashton-Under-Lyne Salary £39,959 - £56,515 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 05/10/2026 23:59

Job overview

Heart Failure Specialist Nurse

Band 6/7

37.5 hours

Fixed term 12m

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Heart Failure Specialist Nurse Service on a 12-month fixed-term / secondment maternity cover. We are seeking a motivated and enthusiastic registered nurse to support the delivery of high-quality, patient-centred care for individuals living with heart failure across a range of clinical settings.

Applicants who do not yet possess the required specialist heart failure qualifications and experience will be considered for appointment at Band 6; the successful candidate will be supported through to gain the knowledge, skills, and competencies required for the role.

Applicants who already hold the relevant heart failure qualifications, specialist knowledge, and demonstrable experience working within a heart failure service will be considered for appointment at Band 7.

This role offers an excellent opportunity to develop or further enhance specialist expertise while making a significant difference to the care, experience, and outcomes of patients living with heart failure.

Main duties of the job

Provide clinical care for a caseload of patients using advanced specialist skills and knowledge to undertake full assessments of patients with chronic heart failure.

Provide support to patients, families and carers ensuring clear communication, and accurate information in relation to the diagnosis of heart failure, treatment and the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle, promoting self-management, and optimising quality of life .

Accountable for own professional actions and clinical decisions, acting as an advanced independent practitioner/decision maker.

Ensure the efficient delivery of a specialist heart failure service, responding to changes in demand, being proactive in-service review.

Work in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams and colleagues in both hospital and community setting.

Provide palliative care and end of life support to patients with advanced heart failure.

Act as a resource promoting evidence-based practice and best management of heart failure across inpatient and community services.

Participate in delivering structured education to other healthcare professionals.

Participation in the National Heart Failure Audit.

Working for our organisation

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children.Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.

We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate:

• Compassion
• Accountability
• Respect

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian & minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+& Disabled people.

Benefits include; flexible working, 27-33 days annual leave plus bank holidays, sick pay, NHS Pension Scheme, free eye tests and health checks, gym discount, free bicycle loan scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, support with stress, bereavement, relationships, finance, and much more.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification focusses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.

The person specification below is not the full person specification but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

Person specification

Education & Qulaification

• Qualified Non-medical Prescriber.

Experience

• Current HFSN at Band 6 or above with current clinical experience managing adults with heart failure.
• Current HFSN at Band 6 or above with current clinical experience managing adults with heart failure.
• Clinical experience of independently managing the care of adults with chronic heart, including making treatment decisions
• Experience of chronic disease management
• Experience of undertaking clinical audit and benchmarking strategies.

skills

• Wide-ranging in-depth knowledge of clinical issues in heart failure / cardiology
• Able to carry out concurrent activities (multi-tasking) work in an unpredictable working pattern (will be required to carry a bleep).

New colleagues can look forward to a warm welcome here at Tameside & Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust.

For our agenda for change staff, we offer a competitive benefits package with regular pay awards, annual leave of 27 days increasing to 33 days after 10 years and access to a competitive Pension Scheme to which both you and the Trust contribute. These terms and conditions are not applicable for Non-Executive positions.

Alongside this there are extensive training development opportunities with paid mandatory training, a protected training budget for staff and support for flexible working. We have an on-site Occupational Health Service to support you at work and have fast track access to physio, counselling and complimentary therapies.

At Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust, we welcome applications from all candidates.

At the Trust we always adhere to the UK Visas and Immigration rules pertaining to right to work; candidates who do not hold UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) citizenship are required to obtain a Certificate of Sponsorship (CoS) to be eligible to apply for either a Health and Care visa or Skilled Worker visa which allows them to work in the UK, unless they have eligibility to work in the UK via another route.

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