Job summary
- Main area
- Specialist Service
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 350-CC6386835
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Base - Litherland Town Hall Health Centre
- Town
- Southport
- Salary
- Dependant on experience
- Closing
- 08/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Heart Failure Specialist Nurse
Band 6
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 6 nurse within our Community Heart Failure Team working within Sefton Place Community Services Division providing care and treatment to patients across both North and South Sefton. This team is a division of Mersey Care NHS FT- an organisation driven towards integrated health care delivery with a focus on excellent patient care, delivered in the right place at the right time, with a workforce of highly skilled clinical staff.
Mersey Care NHS FT is striving for a bio-social model of health care, with transformation and integration at the forefront. Ultimately the aim is to ensure that we improve services for patients and staff in an environment that learns from experiences.
Current working hours of the team are Monday to Friday between the hours of 8am- 6pm incorporating clinics, virtual review and a domiciliary service. There are potential future plan to expand and develop the service allow for greater flexibility of working for both the service and for the successful applicant.
Main duties of the job
The role is based upon providing excellent Heart Failure management to patients in their own homes and in our clinic settings. The team works to prevent unnecessary hospital admission, initiate and optimise anti heart failure therapies, up skill primary care colleagues and improve patient experience, as well as ensuring preferred place of care at end of life.
The service is currently going through a period of exciting transformation and is working towards develop its service to incorporate an urgent care response pathway and will be working collaboratively with other specialist teams who are part of an urgent care response model (virtual ward * telehealth).
The successful post holder should be educated to degree level, have Cardiology experience, and excellent clinical and communication skills.
The applicant will be expected to demonstrate an understanding of Heart Failure treatment, and symptom recognition. The applicant must be able to transport themselves around the community according to the business need and is expected to independently carry out home visits and clinics.
The successful applicant will be supported throughout a competency framework, with opportunities to develop knowledge and skills to support further career progression which will include undertaking a non-medical prescribing qualification.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will have continuing responsibility for the management of a combined caseload. There will be responsible for the continuity of care with supervision and guidance from more senior heart failure specialist nurses and the MDT. The primary function of the role is to provide proactive, responsive services that address the anticipatory and maintenance care needs of the patients/clients within the defined caseload. This will be done via a holistic assessment of care needs and the provision of clinical care for patients/clients with acute and chronic highly complex needs.
The individual will practice autonomously and demonstrate
evidence based clinical decision making. They will work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the team leader ensuring the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area
incorporating establishment of systems and processes.
PRINCIPAL RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Responsible for the provision of appropriate, high-quality care to a defined caseload.
2. Responsible for workload planning and delegation of work to other team members, taking into account competence levels.
3. Undertake holistic assessments of need for the patient and family, which may be highly complex, using the appropriate model of care and evidence-based practice.
4. Work in partnership with other professionals to enable patients/clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.
5. Provide advice to patients, clients and carers on a wide range of health issues to include health promotion, lifestyle advice and health care.
6. Ensure that the team provides a high-quality clinical service to its clients by participation in caseload and clinical supervision.
7. In conjunction with the team leader, develop new ways of working to provide a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
8. Develop partnerships and joint working within other agencies as appropriate.
9. Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.
10. Clinically lead, direct, mentor and support the team.
11. Support the team leader in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
12. Act as an advocate and champion for patients and/or clients.
13. Act as a role model to team members and students so that patients/clients receive the most effective care possible.
14. Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the local neighbourhood population.
15. Participate in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the clinical team contract/objectives.
16. Provide information to the team leader on staff and patient/client activity as requested, to enable the effective management of the team.
17. Support the team leader in the implementation of practice development, improvement and service modernisation initiatives.
18. Support the team leader by monitoring and recording sickness and absence, capability and other issues within the team, reporting them as soon as possible.
19. In conjunction with other caseload holders, provide day-to-day supervision and support for the team.
20. Support the team leader in providing induction to the local working environment, clinical services and policies for new team members and students.
21. Undertake personal development plans with other members of the team, as delegated by the team leader.
22. Act as an authorised signatory for mileage and timecards for submission to the team leader.
23. Communicate with the multi-disciplinary team to provide best outcomes for patients/clients; this may include organising case conferences related to highly complex cases.
24. Participate in individual and group supervision.
25. Monitor record keeping within the team and inform the team leader of any issues.
26. Support the training and development of team members who need to improve on the level of patient care delivery. This includes record keeping and improving clinical competency.
27. Support the implementation of any initiatives to improve quality within the clinical governance framework.
28. Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.
29. Work with the team leader to ensure achievement of your own personal development plan.
30. Maintain up to date knowledge and competence in line with professional and service requirements and demonstrate critical thinking, decision-making and reflective skills to ensure own professional development.
31. Support the Team Leader in creating an environment in which learning and practice development is fostered, evaluated and disseminated.
32. Facilitate effective learning within the area of practice for all students and practitioners.
33. Facilitate pre and post registration student placements within the team.
34. Mentor and assess pre-registration students.
35. Participation in clinical audits and research, as required.
36. The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
37. The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation.
38. Participate in individual and group supervision
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or equivalent qualification (evidence of study at degree level or higher)
- Registration with relevant professional body
Desirable criteria
- Post degree qualification
- Evidence of CPD
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of successful MDT working
- Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers and colleagues
- Understanding of how other agencies work
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy
Desirable criteria
- Qualification or experience of leadership/management to colleagues and/or students
- Experience of delivering education and training programmes in specialist area
- Demonstrable post registration experience in heart failure/cardiology
Skills
Essential criteria
- I.T Literate
- Ability to work under pressure whilst managing a diverse workload
- Risk assessment skills
- Ability to work with and alongside other professionals & disciplines
- Self management and motivation skills
- Report writing skills with sound knowledge of NHS computer systems
- Confidence to appropriately challenge
- Ability to travel to work flexibly across the Sefton borough
- Experience of lone working in the community
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience and/or understanding of heart failure/cardiology
- Willingness to participate in training and development with the view to career progression
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Andy Booth
- Job title
- Heart Failure Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01514754030
- Additional information
Should further information be required in relation to the post, in the first instance queries should be directed to [email protected] or contact the heart failure team on 0151 4754030
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