Job overview

Our friendly and well established heart failure service in Croydon is looking for a highly motivated nurse to join our team in this large and diverse London borough.  

We are a pro-active and innovative multidisciplinary team, working across community sites and within Croydon University Hospital. We are currently running some exciting service development projects and strive to deliver high quality care to all our heart failure patients.

If you have heart failure experience with excellent organisational and communication skills and would like to join our team, we would love to hear from you. The ideal candidate would be an experienced heart failure nurse, qualified in physical examination and non- medical prescribing, however professional development will be supported.

The successful candidate must be committed to working with heart failure patients, providing excellent standards of care and being an integral member of the multidisciplinary team.

Interview TBC

Main duties of the job

The focus of this role will be within the inpatient setting, optimising the management and delivery of heart failure care to adults admitted to the Trust with Heart Failure, reviewing patients at the point of diagnosis and also those who are known Heart failure, admitted with decompensation.  You will be required to use advanced specialist skills and knowledge to undertake full assessments of patients with Heart Failure, leading to safe decision making and implementation of management plans. Providing effective, evidenced based treatment, improving patients’ quality of life through delivering high-standard and holistic care.  There will be participation in heart failure doctor-led wards rounds but also autonomous reviews of patients will be required.

You will run a nurse-led 2 week post discharge clinic to capture patients who have been discharged after an acute heart failure admission, in line with national standards and to reduce re-admission rates.

Excellent communication skills are required and the ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team is essential, liaising with all health professionals treating heart failure patients in primary, secondary care and tertiary centres to ensure seamless care.

To actively participate in multidisciplinary team meetings

To take part in developing heart failure services and clinical practice through involvement in management, teaching, education, research and audit activity.

Working for our organisation

Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provide hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon. The Trust was formed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 4,100 staff provide services for a population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.

Our main hospital site, Croydon University Hospital is one of the busiest in London. We’re also leading the way in providing more healthcare outside hospitals at clinics, specialist centres and in people’s homes. Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after people of all ages across Croydon.

Across the NHS everyone is working hard to meet growing demand and we’re no exception. But with the right people on board, we are rising to this challenge, putting our people in the driving seat, encouraging innovation and transforming our services to give local people the quality of care they deserve. Croydon Health Services puts a great deal of importance on education and training throughout the careers of all of our staff.

If you want the opportunity to have a real impact, challenge yourself and be part of an NHS Trust that’s making a real difference then a career at Croydon Health Services could be just what you’re looking for.