Heart Failure Nurse SpecialistNHS

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Heart Failure Specialist Nurse to join the Coventry and Rugby Heart Failure Team.

We are looking for a skilled clinician who is passionate about delivering high-quality, patient-centred care and improving outcomes for people living with heart failure. This role offers the opportunity to work across acute, community, virtual and home-based settings while developing advanced specialist knowledge and clinical leadership skills.

As a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse, you will provide expert assessment, management and support for patients with heart failure. Working autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will deliver evidence-based care and contribute to the ongoing development of the service.

You will review patients through outpatient clinics, virtual consultations, telephone reviews and home visits, ensuring patients receive timely, personalised care throughout their heart failure journey.

You will be joining a friendly, supportive and well-established specialist team committed to delivering innovative heart failure services across Coventry and Rugby.

If you are passionate about specialist nursing and improving outcomes for people with heart failure, we would love to hear from you.

Informal Enquiries - Jacqui Hyland, Heart Failure Nurse LeadEmail: [email protected]: 07930 658947

Main duties of the job

You will review patients through face-to-face and virtual clinics, Hospital at Home, home visits and telephone consultations.

You will work closely with the multidisciplinary team (MDT), GPs, healthcare professionals, patients and carers to ensure safe, effective and personalised care.

You will:

• Provide specialist assessment and management of patients with heart failure.
• Work autonomously across acute, community and virtual care settings.
• Lead and support the Heart Failure Nursing Team.
• Develop and implement evidence-based treatment plans.
• Support optimisation of heart failure medication in line with current guidelines.
• Refer patients for cardiac rehabilitation where appropriate.
• Consider and refer patients for cardiac device therapy when indicated.
• Promote patient education, self-management and improved outcomes.
• Liaise effectively with the MDT, GPs, healthcare professionals, patients and carers.
• Promote best practice in heart failure management in accordance with national and local guidelines.

Job description

This role requires the candidate to work across multiple sites, including University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW), the Hospital of St. Cross, Coventry Community services, and the Hospital at Home programme. The post holder will provide expert clinical assessment and ongoing management of patients with heart failure. Lead and support the HF nursing team to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care across all service locations. Review patients in various settings, including face-to-face and virtual clinics, Hospital at Home, patients' homes, and via telephone consultations. Collaborate and liaise effectively with the multidisciplinary team (MDT), general practitioners (GPs), healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients, and carers. Recommend and implement evidence-based treatment plans, including optimisation of medications, referral to cardiac rehabilitation, and consideration of cardiac devices where appropriate.

Promote best practice in heart failure management in line with current national and local guidelines.

For further details please see the attached job description.

A full UK driving license is essential for this post. Please note that an international driving license is not accepted.

Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

About us

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence designated organisation - please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create anenvironment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.