Job summary
Employer heading
Community Heart Failure Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the community heart failure team. The post holder will work across Northumberland and North Tyneside.
We are a small, but vital service, in caring for patients with a diagnosis of heart failure.
The job will involve caring for heart failure patients within a community setting. Therefore there will be travel around Northumberland and North Tyneside.
A car driver is essential.
The base for this post will be Alnwick.
The working hours are Monday to Friday.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will deliver care for patients with a diagnosis of heart failure.
They will be responsible to the B7 community Heart Failure Nurse Specialists, and work as part of the team assessing heart failure patients, and managing their symptoms.
The post holder will hold their own case load, under supervision, and will be involved in medication titrations, monitoring, support and education of the heart failure patient. There will be involvement in palliative care, admission avoidance practices as well as liaising with the virtual ward team.
We care for people in their homes.
We aim to give people greater choice and control, and help them live with their condition, and avoid hospital admission where appropriate.
High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with both.
The service works closely with all primary care, secondary care services, and the wider MDT.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Provide a comprehensive specialist nursing service within the community, with an emphasis on patient centred care.
- Involvement in the development and service delivery, developing protocols and audits.
- Work in an interdisciplinary manner, to provide high quality care.
- Provide training and education in heart failure to doctors, nurses, allied healthcare professionals and students.
- Manage and evaluate admission avoidance practices within a patient’s home.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- 1st level Registered Nurse
- Degree in nursing / health studies or equivalent experience/training
- Mentorship qualification or Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period)
Desirable criteria
- Clinical skills course and/or advanced history taking skills
- Counselling course
- Heart Failure Course (12 month course)
- Registered non-medical prescriber
- British Association for cardiac rehabilitation Exercise Course
Experience
Essential criteria
- Evidence of specialist education and training in Cardiology/ Heart Failure
- Knowledge of cardiology drugs and the ability to commence and adjust medications, following protocols using patient group directives. Advising GP’s about appropriate drug treatment
- Knowledge of local policy/practice/procedure and national guidelines specific to Cardiology
- In depth experience cardiology nursing
- Technical knowledge of investigations
Desirable criteria
- Venepuncture and cannulation skills
- Clinical audit and data collection of own specialist area and national audits
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
- judith robson
- Job title
- clinical operational lead community cardiology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07747102692
- Additional information
Nicola Easton
Heart Failure Nurse Specialist
07815509525
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