Specialist Nurse Heart Failure Nurse

Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust; Salford; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A major NHS trust in the UK is seeking a Highly Specialist Heart Failure Nurse to join their innovative team in Salford. This role involves providing expert patient care across both community and hospital settings, conducting assessments, and leading care programs. Candidates should have a registered nurse qualification and experience in heart failure management. The position offers a flexible work environment and a competitive benefits package to support work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Competitive benefits package

Annual leave allowance

Qualifications

• Experience in heart failure management.
• Ability to lead clinical audits and research.
• Compassionate and empathetic patient care.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist advice and nursing procedures.
• Assess and plan patient care for inpatients.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams.
• Participate in Virtual Ward patient monitoring.

Skills

Advanced clinical assessment

Care planning

Patient monitoring

Interprofessional collaboration

Education

Registered Nurse qualification

Job description

This is an exciting opportunity to join an established and innovative heart failure team. We are constantly changing and evolving the service to provide the best possible evidence-based care to the residents of Salford. This includes.

Working in both the community and hospital setting- to provide continuity in patient care throughout their journey

Remote patient monitoring - preventing hospital admissions, providing reassurance for patients and support to the patient caseload.

Interprofessional working with the renal team - as we are currently developing a new cardiorenal service

Weekly MDT with consultant Cardiologists.

Monthly MDT with a variety of nurse specialists, ACP's and consultants in - Renal, Elderly Care, Diabetes, Cardiology and Palliative care.

The role of the Highly Specialist Heart Failure Nurse is to provide specialist advice to support the assessment, planning and implementation of programmes of care, this is within the inpatient and outpatient/community setting, autonomously and within the specialist team. To carry out specialist nursing procedures. Accountable for own actions, not directly supervised. Lead specialist in a defined area of nursing care. To provide specialist education to other staff and learners. Undertakes research and leads clinical audits in own specialist area.

To provide comprehensive inpatient assessment and planning of care to inpatients via the referral system to facilitate appropriate treatment and contribute to reduced length of stay, they will display compassion and empathy to the patients during their hospital stay. To work within the Heart Failure team and contribute to the multidisciplinary team meeting to optimise patient care. To work within the outpatient/community setting in the form of nurse led clinics to provide comprehensive assessment and treatment of patients with heart failure. Actively monitor and participate within our caseload of patients

The specialist nurse will actively participate in Virtual Ward, whereby patients' blood pressure and weight are monitored post discharge to prevent decompensation.

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.