Heart Failure Nurse Specialist (Band 6/7)
Posted 6 hours 53 minutes ago by NHS
We are looking for a committed and motivated Community Heart Failure Nurse Specialist to join our team, supporting patients across Airedale, Wharfedale, Craven and Bentham. This is a rare and exciting opportunity to make a genuine difference to patients living with chronic heart failure within the local community. The Community Heart Failure Nurse Specialists provide high-quality, evidence-based care to patients with chronic heart failure. The service aims to improve patients' quality of life by optimising treatments, support self-management, support palliative care, and reduce avoidable hospital admissions and primary care contacts. The post holder will work autonomously and within a small team, managing a defined caseload, delivering nurse-led clinics and home visits, and supporting patients and carers across the community.
Main duties of the job- Provide expert assessment, care planning, and evaluation using advanced clinical skills for people with chronic heart failure.
- Manage a patient caseload, working autonomously and making clinical decisions, treatment plans, medication regimes, and referrals as required.
- Conduct nurse-led heart failure clinics and undertake home visits.
- Utilise non-medical prescribing skills to optimise heart failure medications in line with national and local guidance.
- Provide education, advice and support to patients, carers and other healthcare professionals.
- Work collaboratively with small heart failure nurse specialist team and the wider community specialist nurse team. Work with multidisciplinary teams including cardiology, general practice, palliative care and community services.
- Support continuity of care by ensuring effective communication across agencies and care settings.
- Contribute to service monitoring, audit, evaluation and development activities.
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
- Cycle to Work
- Travel Scheme
- Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
- Onsite Nursery
- Buying and Selling Annual Leave
- Car Leasing
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Employee Health and Wellbeing
- Extensive Reward Scheme
- Counselling Service
- Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
- Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Our values:
We understand that it's down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:
- Committed to Quality of Care
- Compassion
- Working together for patients
- Improving Lives
- Everyone Counts
- Respect and Dignity
Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.
Job responsibilitiesClinical Responsibilities
- Provide expert assessment, diagnosis, and treatment using advanced clinical assessment skills.
- Monitor clinical status symptoms before initiating and following medication changes, adjusting care as appropriate.
- Review patients medication regimens to ensure safe, effective pharmacotherapy.
- Assess suitability for devices and cardiology interventions, referring to cardiology services where appropriate.
- Provide palliative and supportive care, including sensitive discussions around prognosis and advanced care planning.
- Deliver personalised education and selfmanagement advice to patients and carers.
- Promote lifestyle changes and signpost to relevant services based on individual needs.
- Ensure timely communication and act as a point of contact for patients and carers.
Service Responsibilities
- Lead on incorporating evidencebased practice into holistic heart failure management.
- Organise and prioritise workload according to clinical need and service demand.
- Support the triage of new referrals and advise administrative staff as required.
- Participate in MDT meetings to optimise health outcomes and resource utilisation.
- Monitor, audit and evaluate the service to ensure high standards of care and improved outcomes.
- Contribute to heart failure education for primary and community care teams.
- Support the development of colleagues through mentoring, preceptorship and clinical leadership.
Leadership and Professional Responsibilities
- Act as an expert resource for healthcare professionals and others involved in heart failure management.
- Support service and policy development and in collaboration with the Team Leader.
- Work closely with regional partners, including the West Yorkshire Heart Failure Cardiac Network, to meet local and national targets.
- Maintain and develop specialist knowledge through CPD and reflective practice.
- Clinical experience within cardiology nursing
- Non-medical prescriber
- First Level Degree in health-related subject
- ENB 998/SLIP or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification
- Advanced clinical assessment skills
- Knowledge of a range of cardiac nursing issues
- Knowledge of current ESC and NICE guidelines for CHF & ACS
- Knowledge of current issues affecting the NHS
- Substantial post registration including clinical experience working with cardiology patients
- Working knowledge of SystmOne
- Experience of working in the Community
- Managing patients with Acute Coronary Syndromes
- Case management or chronic disease experience
- Advanced communication skills
- Demonstrates excellent interpersonal and communication skills, including IT
- Demonstrates leadership and management skills
- Presentation Skills
- Counselling skills
- Accurate history taking and assessment skills
- Basic ECG interpretation skills
- Experience of audit/service evaluation
- Car driver with valid UK driving licence
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.
Team Leader, Community Specialist Nurses