Specialist Nurse Heart Failure Nurse | Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust; Salford; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust in Salford is seeking a highly specialist Heart Failure Nurse for an 8-month secondment. The successful candidate will support patient care both in hospital and community settings, providing vital specialist advice and implementing care programs. You will lead in clinical audits, educate other staff, and work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team. The role offers flexible working and a competitive benefits package to promote a healthy work-life balance.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Competitive benefits package

Annual leave allowance

Qualifications

• Expertise in heart failure management and care.
• Ability to conduct comprehensive assessments in inpatient and outpatient settings.
• Experience in interprofessional collaboration and MDT meetings.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist advice and support for patient assessment and care planning.
• Lead specialist education and clinical audits within nursing.
• Conduct comprehensive inpatient assessments to facilitate effective treatment.

Skills

Compassionate patient care

Interprofessional communication

Specialist nursing procedures

Education

Band 7 Highly Specialist Nursing qualification

Job description

Join Our Team as Heart Failure Specialist Nurse

Applications are invited to apply for an 8 Month Secondment for a Band 7 Highly Specialist nurse role in Heart Failure Nurse. 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.

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, ACPs 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.

To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk.

This advert closes on Sunday 7 Dec 2025.