Heart Failure Specialist Nurse Team Leader

NHS; Halifax; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Halifax is seeking a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse / Team Leader to manage the community Heart Failure service. The role involves clinical leadership, team management, and ensuring evidence-based care for patients. The ideal candidate will have a Registered General Nurse qualification, leadership experience, and a solid understanding of cardiology. This full-time permanent position offers a competitive salary and the chance to make a real impact in patient care.

Qualifications

• Must have experience in advanced nursing practice.
• Knowledge and management of heart failure patients.
• Experience in nurse-led triage and change management.

Responsibilities

• Lead clinical coordination of the Heart Failure Service.
• Deputise for the Cardiac Rehabilitation lead.
• Monitor readmission rates and improve service quality.

Skills

Leadership

Clinical management

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Time management

Education

Registered General Nurse

Non-Medical Prescribing

Teaching and Mentoring qualification

Management or leadership qualification

MSc in Cardiology (or willingness to work towards)

Job description

Job summary

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust are seeking an enthusiastic Heart Failure Specialist Nurse / Team Leader to join and lead the existing community Heart Failure team to deliver care to patients closer to home and preventing unnecessary hospital admission across Calderdale community.

The post holder will provide clinical and operational leadership for the community heart failure service, with a particular focus on the development, delivery, and oversight of the Heart Failure Virtual Ward.

Main duties of the job

As Team Lead, the role involves providing direct support to both the Cardiac Rehabilitation Lead and the Heart Failure Team in the strategic planning and operational management of the service. This includes team management, staff development, service performance, quality improvement and collaborative leadership as well as holding a caseload of complex patients, working across the community, Virtual Wards, clinics, and remote monitoring pathways.

The key aims of the service are to provide high quality, evidence based, patient centred care through a structured and pro‑active approach. This will ensure the patients, and their relatives are at the centre of decisions about care, ensure their voices are heard and those of their advocates are heard and their choices and priorities known and respected.

About us

CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as 'Good' by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.

Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.

Details

Date posted: 17 December 2025

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 7

Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 372-COM2620

Job locations: Dean Clough, NHS Community Healthcare, 4th Floor, Bowling Mill, Dean Clough Mills, Halifax, HX35AQ

Job description

• Lead on the day‑to‑day clinical coordination of the Heart Failure Service managing referrals, patient flow, and escalation plans.
• Deputise for the Cardiac Rehabilitation lead, including chairing meetings, coordinating team activities, and managing service priorities.
• Operational oversight of the Heart Failure Service / virtual Ward, including patient triage, allocation of visits, and ensuring timely clinical interventions.
• Act as a key liaison between hospital and community teams to support seamless transfers of care into and out of the virtual ward.
• Contribute to strategic planning and service development, including business cases, pathway redesign, and integration with PCNs and ICB priorities.
• Ensure safe and effective remote monitoring of patients using digital platforms, physiological monitoring tools, and structured clinical reviews.
• Act as the clinical point of contact for primary care, acute trusts, and urgent care services referring to or discharging from the virtual ward.
• Participate in data collection and evaluation of virtual ward outcomes and innovations. Be responsible for ensuring that the induction process of new staff to the service area takes place.
• Monitor rate of readmission, identifying any trends and working within the multidisciplinary team to address these.
• Work with all members of the multidisciplinary team to develop practice, research and audit.
• Work within the framework of clinical governance, work continuously to improve quality and safeguard standards of care, maintaining a patient focused service, promoting and implementing evidence-based practice with measurable standards of care and outcomes.
• Be involved in audit projects to measure standards of care; identify and highlight any gaps in the evidence/service provision for Heart Failure patients.
• Critically examine working practices within the department to identify cost improvements and effective measures, develop and implement action plans.
• Understand the commissioning of services and any income generation from new work or changes in service that may affect income.
• Understand the procurement of services in terms of service development initiatives, lead the team through service changes.
• Participate and lead in the writing of departmental guidelines and implement Trust wide/departmental policies, procedures and guidelines.
• Maintain, advance and develop personal theoretical knowledge, high standards of clinical competence and professional development through ongoing self‑education and attendance at relevant courses of study.
• Develop and maintain a peer network of support, information and learning with other nurse specialists at a local and National level.
• Maintain own professional portfolio.

Person Specification

Qualifications / Training

• Registered General Nurse
• Non‑Medical Prescribing
• Teaching, Assessment, Mentoring qualification
• Recognised management or leadership qualification, willing to undertake
• MSc or willingness to work towards Masters level degree (Cardiology related)

Knowledge, Experience & Expertise

• Currently working as an autonomous practitioner in advanced practice
• Working knowledge and clinical management of patients specific to role
• Service development and or change management
• Evidence of experience in nurse led triage including telephone triage
• Substantial post‑registration experience within cardiology specialty.
• Leadership, influencing and negotiation skills
• Wide‑range in‑depth knowledge of clinical issues in heart failure / cardiology
• Advises on the prescription of medicines and adjusts drug dosages within scope of NMPs

Communication and Relationships (Including Management Responsibilities)

• Good organisational and time management skills
• Knowledge of change management.
• Awareness of professional issues and vision for HF services.
• Willingness to work flexible shifts to deliver the service
• Able to work independently and as part of a team, receptive and responsive to change.
• Understanding of Clinical Governance and Health & Safety issues.
• Demonstrates knowledge in relation to benchmarking and peer review

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here: Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Dean Clough, NHS Community Healthcare

4th Floor, Bowling Mill, Dean Clough Mills

Halifax

HX35AQ

Employer's website

https://www.cht.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)