Job summary
- Main area
- Community Heart Failure Nurse Specialist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: Monday-Friday 0900-1700hrs
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday 0900-1700)
- Job ref
- 333-G-CC-1391
- Employer
- Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Pancras Hospital
- Town
- Camden
- Salary
- £54,320 - £60,981 per annum inc. Inner HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 30/09/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 09/10/2024
Employer heading
Community Heart Failure Nurse Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
A full time Band 7 Community Heart Failure Nurse Specialist (HFNS) role with a highly functioning and well supported Community Heart Failure Service has arisen. We cover the multi-cultural and vibrant borough of Camden and aim to provide quality care for patients in their own homes or in a clinical setting.
The ideal candidate must be committed to supporting people with a diagnosis of Heart Failure as part of our wider Long Term Conditions Service. You will join our nurse-led team, working in partnership with local hospital acute trusts, other community services, and primary care services across Camden.
Main duties of the job
The main role will be optimisation of guideline-directed medical therapies in line with current NICE guidance (Chronic Heart Failure), fluid management and care of patients in a clinic setting or in their own homes. We promote self-management of symptoms and education on what to do should symptoms arise.
You should have a broad cardiology knowledge base including excellent assessment skills and treatment of people with heart failure.
The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, will have their own caseload and be able to work autonomously and as part of a team. Professional supervision will be provided from an experienced heart failure nurse specialist and/or cardiology heart failure consultants.
The post holder will have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of community and secondary care teams, aimed at reducing unscheduled hospital admissions and improving quality of life for people with heart failure.
Working for our organisation
All Band 7 nurses working for Central and North West London Foundation Trust are expected to be kind, responsive but professional, informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:
- Keeping the people who use our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments
- Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence based policies and procedures
- Ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process
Experience in heart failure is essential. Interested applicants can contact Rosemary Fernandez, Clinical Lead on 020 3317 2362 and are welcome to call and discuss the role or visit informally.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Outcomes
The Heart Failure team are expected to help meet the health needs of the population in Camden and as a Heart Failure Nurse Specialist you are expected to understand those health needs. You will often work with people who have complex needs. You will be expected to contribute to the effectiveness of the service by:
- Being a confident, autonomous practitioner who takes responsibility for the care you give to patients and seeks advice when necessary
- Adhering to Trust policies and procedures and working within your own scope of practice
- Providing highly specialised clinical advice to support patients, GPs and other healthcare teams
- Reducing the risk of deterioration of heart failure patients by reviewing management plans, participating in MDT meetings and engaging with GPs
- Assessing patients with complex needs in collaboration with other services or teams
- Working with patients and families in all stages of the care planning process including assessing risks and needs
- Acting as patient advocates in the multi-disciplinary team and overseeing the work of others to ensure that they are also responding to the needs of patients and providing clinically effective care
- Ensuring that you and other team members treat patients with respect and dignity and obtain consent as required and ensure adherence to the Mental capacity Act
- Prescribing for patients (or work towards becoming a non medical prescriber)
- Take responsibility for overseeing the work of others in the team including less experienced nurses and staff without a professional qualification
- Contributing to creating and maintaining a high performing team by:
- Contributing to the development of the Team by ensuring that policies and procedures are up to date and evidence based
- Communicating well with all members of the team
- Understanding your role in the team and how you will help the team achieve its objectives
- Reflecting on your own practice regularly and encouraging the whole team to reflect on their practices in handovers and team meetings
- Encouraging the team to learn from adverse events or respond to data analysis from audits or benchmarking exercises and implement sustainable initiatives which improve clinical outcomes
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • NMC Registered Adult Nurse
- • Numeracy skills required for the safe titration of heart failure medications
- • Evidence of relevant Continuous Professional Development
- • Educated to degree level with evidence of an established degree pathway
Desirable criteria
- • Practice Assessor/Practice Supervisor training
- • History Taking and Physical Assessment Course
- • Independent Prescriber
Previous Experience
Essential criteria
- • Previous cardiology experience as a Band 6 nurse
Desirable criteria
- Heart Failure experience
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Able to communicate with the multi-disciplinary team, present cases, take note of actions, update others in the team and use handover effectively. Speaking face-to-face and also by telephone and writing letters and reports.
- • Maintaining accurate, timely, concise and legible clinical records both electronic and handwritten which adhere to the CNWL policies
- • Able to maintain electronic patient records Use Microsoft Word for letter and report writing
- • Care planning: being able to assess patients, develop, implement and evaluate a care plan
- • Empowering and working in partnership
- • Safeguarding and advocacy
- • Understanding how the Mental Capacity Act and Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards impacts on their work and the people they are working with
- • Understanding how the Mental Health Act impacts on their work and the people they are working with
- • Understanding the concept of quality and their role in improving safety, clinical outcomes and the patient experience
- • Infection control
- • Moving and handling
- • Obtaining consent
- • Medicines management and administration
- • Manage others and contribute to the management of the team
- • Contribute to the culture of the team and play a role in making it inclusive, kind and hard working
- • Coordinate work allocation and deputize for the Team Lead, when necessary
- • Help others in the team achieve their objectives and deliver safe, effective care
- • Mentor, teach and support others in the team
- • Supervise others in the team
- • Recruit others to the team
Desirable criteria
- Expertise in the assessment and management of heart failure
- Supervision, Line management and appraisal training
- HR skills training e.g. recruitment, managing absence
Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics
Essential criteria
- Caring for the people who use our services, their families and carers, and other staff
- Respectful of others and genuinely treating them how you would want to be treated
- Able and willing to work with service users, family and carers, and other staff in a way which empowers and supports others and makes them feel better about themselves
- Able and willing to work in partnership with service users, their friends and family as well as other health care professionals
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
- Rosemary Fernandez
- Job title
- Clinical Lead, Heart Failure Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 3317 2362
- Additional information
Irina Krylossov, Heart Failure Nurse Specialist 0203 317 2362
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