Heart Failure Specialist Nurse

Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust; West Bromwich; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is seeking a Band 6 nurse to join the Community Heart Failure Team. The successful candidate will treat patients at home or in clinic settings, coordinate holistic care, and support junior staff within a collaborative team.

You should have heart failure experience and be eligible for NMC registration. This full-time role offers opportunities to specialise within a specialist heart failure team, with a focus on improving life for patients in the community.

Qualifications

• Band 6 nurse or Band 5 with heart failure experience required.
• NMC registration and current practice in community/primary care preferred.
• Ability to work in patients' homes or clinic settings and manage care plans.

Responsibilities

• Treat patients in patients' own homes or clinic settings with heart failure.
• Coordinate and provide skilled holistic nursing to patients diagnosed with heart failure.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual nursing care programmes based on models of care and delegate tasks as needed.
• Adhere to Trust and National Service Framework and NICE guidelines for Heart Failure.
• Provide admission avoidance management and facilitate discharges.
• Support junior staff within the team.
• Provide ongoing physical and psychological support and counselling to patients and carers as outlined by NICE.

Skills

Heart failure care

Holistic patient care

Interprofessional collaboration

Planning and evaluation

Education

Nursing qualification (RN)

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to work in the Sandwell Community Heart Failure Team. The team are well-established and supportive to provide a fantastic place for you to learn and develop your skills and passion for treating patients with heart failure in the community.

We are looking for 1 full time band 6 nurse to join our supportive team of nurses and support workers. If you are a band 6 already or a band 5 with heart failure experience who would like to specialise within a specialist heart failure team, then we would like to hear from you.

• To treat patients in their own place of residence or a clinic setting who have heart failure.
• To co-ordinate and provide skilled holistic nursing to patients diagnosed with heart failure.
• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual programmes of nursing care based on agreed models of care and in consideration of individual need and delegating effectively to others as required.
• Adhere to Trust and National Service Framework and the NICE Guidelines for Heart Failure.
• Providing admission avoidance management and facilitated discharges.
• To be part of the IV furosemide pathway.
• To support junior staff within the team.
• Provide ongoing physical, psychological support, advice and

counselling to patients with diagnosed heart failure and their carers as outlined in National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

• Management of Chronic Heart failure, and in accordance with responsibilities under NMC Code of Conduct and trust Policies.
• The post holder will deliver care within the secondary care setting and provide close links with the acute specialist heart failure and multi disciplinary teams across Primary and Secondary Care.
• Provide ongoing physical, psychological support, advice and

counselling to patients with diagnosed heart failure and their carers as

outlined in National Institute for Health and Care Excellence.

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWB) serves Birmingham and the Black Country – one of the country’s most culturally diverse areas. It’s a friendly and welcoming place – a place where you can belong, and a place where you can grow.

We care for our patients, we care about our population, and we care about our people.

Our values – Ambition, Respect and Compassion – are at the heart of who we are. They guide us every step of the way; how we work with each other, and how we look after our patients and their families; how we respect and value the rich diversity of our team and our community.

Our Trust has always aspired to be more than a hospital, more than a healthcare provider. Our purpose is to “Improve the Life Chances and Health Outcomes of our Population.” It is what inspires, drives, and unites us every day. It’s what makes us unique.

We want working at SWB to feel like more than just a job. We want our Trust to be a place where you can feel you belong. A place where you feel happy, safe, and rewarded. A place where you can develop your career in whatever way you choose. When we say we’re ‘with you all the way’ we want you to know that we mean it. Visit the SWB website to find out more about our ambitions and people plans.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Mrs Wendy Morris Job title: Clinical Service Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07970702879