Heart Failure Specialist Nurse Team Leader

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust; Halifax; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse / Team Leader to lead the community Heart Failure team. The role involves providing clinical and operational leadership, supporting team members, and managing a caseload of patients while ensuring high-quality, patient-centered care. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership qualities and experience in managing healthcare services, fostering a collaborative and compassionate environment for both staff and patients.

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical leadership and operational management in health care settings.
• Ability to provide high-quality patient-centered care.
• Demonstrated experience in team management and staff development.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical and operational leadership for the heart failure service.
• Support the Cardiac Rehabilitation Lead and Heart Failure Team.
• Manage a caseload of complex patients across community settings.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Patient-centered care

Team management

Education

Nursing qualification

Job description

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., 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 and those of their advocates are heard and their choices and priorities known and respected.

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.