Job summary
Employer heading
Heart Failure Nurse
NHS AFC: band 5
The Trust is currently under-represented in terms of individuals from BME backgrounds and welcomes applicants from these communities. DCHS is also an LGBT inclusive employer. Selection will be on a basis of merit. The Trust has achieved the status of a Disability Confident Leader and guarantees to invite to assessment applicants who meet the criteria for the job vacancy. To ensure the diversity of the workforce and understand the differing needs of our communities, the Trust is committed to the principles of Positive Action.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our cardiology/heart failure team as a band 5 staff nurse.
We are looking for a motivated heart failure nurse/cardiology nurse to join our highly professional team.
If you consider yourself to be dynamic, flexible, enthusiastic and able to work on your own initiative and as part of a team and want to develop your knowledge and career in Heart Failure and cardiology then please apply.
Main duties of the job
The post is to work both within our Ambulatory Heart Failure unit/Virtual Ward service and triage our patients who are being monitored via our integrated telehealth service.
Within the AHF unit, the post-holder will support and deliver care for patients requiring IV diuretics and IV iron therapy and will provide triage urgent alerts from the telehealth system and help in the management of patients with heart failure in the community.
The post also involves delivering IV Diuretics to patients who require treatment in their own homes, as part of the Virtual Ward.
Working for our organisation
Our purpose is to provide community health services to a patient population of over one million people in Derbyshire and Derby, as part of Joined Up Care Derbyshire.
We employ around 4,200 substantive staff, caring for patients in 11 community hospitals and more than 30 health centres, as well as in clinics, GP practices, schools, care homes and, increasingly, in people’s own homes and via virtual consultations.
During the pandemic response we have led the implementation of public vaccination centres in collaboration with partners across health and social care.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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Person specification
Skills
Essential criteria
- Experience in venepuncture
- Experience in cannulation
- Experience with ECG's
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Teaching/mentor qualification and experience
- Registered Nurse (active registration on Part 1 or 12 of the NMC register.)
Desirable criteria
- Heart Failure module
Experience
Essential criteria
- HF experience in acute
- HF experience in community
- Experience delivering IV therapy
Skills
Essential criteria
- Can administer intravenous therapy
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clare Graham
- Job title
- Ward Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01332 789205
- Additional information
Nicola Turner- Team Lead. [email protected]
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