Heart Failure Specialist Nurse

NHS; Coventry; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust is seeking an experienced Registered Nurse to join the Heart Failure Team as a Band 6 nurse. The role involves specialist assessment, management of heart failure patients and travel across locations including UHCW, Hospital of St Cross, Coventry Community Services, and patients’ homes.

You will work within MDTs to provide patient-centred care, develop care plans and deliver education to patients and carers.

Qualifications

• Current Registered Nurse registration.
• Experience with heart failure patients.
• Driving licence and access to a car; travel between service locations.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist assessment and management of patients with heart failure.
• Support the Heart Failure Nursing Team.
• Develop and implement evidence-based treatment plans.
• Support optimisation of heart failure medication in line with current guidelines.
• Refer patients for cardiac rehabilitation where appropriate.
• Promote patient education, self-management and improved outcomes.

Skills

Heart failure experience

Communication skills

Driving licence

Education

First level degree

Tools

IT skills

Job description

Main area Cardiology-Heart failure Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent: There is also 1x Full-time Fixed Term / Secondment vacancy (the contract will end at 31/08/2027) Hours

• Full time
• Part time

37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday) Job ref 218-NM-B6-8399997

Site University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire Town Coventry Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 16/11/2026 23:59

Job overview

The Coventry and Rugby Heart Failure Team have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated Registered Nurse to join our dedicated team.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your specialist practice while providing high-quality, patient-centred care across acute, community and virtual settings.

The successful candidate will provide expert clinical assessment and ongoing management of patients with heart failure.

The role involves working across multiple locations, including:

• University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW)
• Hospital of St Cross
• Coventry Community Services
• Patients’ own homes

You will review patients through face-to-face in hospital, virtual clinics, home visits and telephone consultations.

You will work closely with the multidisciplinary team (MDT), GPs, healthcare professionals, patients and carers to ensure safe, effective and personalised care.

If you are an experienced nurse who is passionate about specialist nursing, clinical excellence and improving patient outcomes, we would love to hear from you.

Further Information

For further information or an informal discussion about the role, please contact:

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Closing date: 11th November 2026
Interview date: 26th November 2026

Main duties of the job

• Provide specialist assessment and management of patients with heart failure.
• Support the Heart Failure Nursing Team.
• Develop and implement evidence-based treatment plans.
• Support optimisation of heart failure medication in line with current guidelines.
• Refer patients for cardiac rehabilitation where appropriate.
• Consider and refer patients for cardiac device therapy when indicated.
• Promote patient education, self-management and improved outcomes.
• Liaise effectively with the MDT, GPs, healthcare professionals, patients and carers.
• Promote best practice in heart failure management in accordance with national and local guidelines.

Applicants must have:

• Current Registered Nurse registration.
• Experience with heart failure patients
• Excellent communication and multidisciplinary working skills.
• A driving licence and access to a car, as travel between service locations is required.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To support patients and carers with stable and unstable heart failure. To promote quality of life, contributing to the prevention of avoidable hospital admissions and readmissions. To contribute to developing robust guidelines and protocols and providing clinical advice and education ensuring seamless pathways of care for patients with heart failure. To support advanced care planning strategies for end stage heart failure patients.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Current Professional Registration (RN)
• First level degree or willingness to undertake
• Evidence of continuous professional development
• Basic / Intermediate life support
• Teaching and assessing
• Heart failure qualification or willing to undertake
• Clinical assessment course or willingness to undertake
• Coronary care course
• Health promotion qualification
• Counselling qualification
• Current venepuncture and cannulation certificate

Experience

• Significant current clinical experience in cardiac nursing and/or CHD experience
• Ability to successfully manage people and changeExperience of patient education
• Primary Care Experience
• Understanding and knowledge of heart failure
• Experience of working with people with complex needs
• Resource management
• Experienced in venepuncture and cannulation

Knowledge

• A knowledgeable clinician with the ability to apply evidence-based practice
• Considerable knowledge of heart failure evidence-based therapy
• Psychosocial and cultural perspectives of health and disease
• A sound knowledge of professional policies and procedures
• Knowledge of clinical governance & a commitment to clinical supervision and staff development
• A good understanding of current issues relating to the NHS.
• Experience in Policy/Service Development
• Knowledge of Community Services

Skills

• IT skills
• Managing a patient caseload
• Patient focused
• Able to work in diverse settings (patients home / clinic / ward)
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to prioritise and meet deadlines effectively
• Good management of own and others time
• Able to use initiative and make decisions
• Analyses problems and implements effective and appropriate solutions
• Delivery of patient education
• Experienced in education of junior staff and allied health professionals
• Experience with audit

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

• Evidence of demonstrating the Trust Values (Compassion, Openness, Pride, Partnership, Improve, Learn and Respect) and the associated Values in Action behaviours in the workplace.
• Evidence of promoting equality, diversity and inclusion, and ensuring fair and equitable practices throughout your work experience. Evidence of promoting a culture which helps individuals live behaviours aligned to our Trust Values (Compassion, Openness, Pride, Partnership, Improve, Learn and Respect)

To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.

In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.

UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.

If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we’ll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.

We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.

Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.

All correspondence will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk/SPAM folders

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.