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Job summary

Main area
Cardiology
Grade
Band 7
Contract
12 months (Fixed Term)
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
391-RFL-6426954-A
Employer
Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Barnet Hospital
Town
Hertfordshire
Salary
£49,178 - £55,492 per annum exclusive of HCAS
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
06/08/2024 23:59

Employer heading

NHS

Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist - Heart Failure

Band 7

Our trust has around 10,000 staff serving 1.6 million patients. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital and more than 30 services in the community.  This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.

Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.

Everyone is welcome at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. We're proud of our diversity and we continue to undertake new initiatives to advance equality for LGBT+, BME, gender equality, staff carers and people with disabilities and lived experiences to promote good relations and understanding between our staff.

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen to become an enhanced nurse specialist as part of a heart failure specialist team. This is a one year fixed term post. We provide care in both inpatient and outpatient settings and are involved from first diagnosis to end stage heart failure. The role will be focused on ensuring evidence-based medicines are optimised, providing lifestyle and self-care advice to patients and carers, and ensuring the patient has a comprehensive management plan. We hold weekly multidisciplinary meetings where we can discuss complex patients and access the expertise of our cardiac rhythm management, consultant colleagues, advanced heart failure and palliative care experts. We are excited to be part of new and inventive ways of working through using information technology and services such as virtual wards to support patient care which is a key duty involved in this role. The post holder will be a key member of the team influencing service development and involved in audit and research.

 Informal visits either in person or virtually are encouraged, please contact us for discussions regarding the role.

Main duties of the job

The main duties of this post will be to to facilitate the provision of high quality specialist care to patients with acute and chronic heart failure. This will involve assessing the individual needs of patients using assessment skills and utilising various investigations. The post holder will need to recommend heart failure medications to improve quality of life and reduce morbidity and mortality. They will be expected to promote self management and provide health education.

A  key responsibility will be to supporting the management of patients on the virtual ward platform. Virtual wards support patients who would otherwise be in hospital to receive the acute care, monitoring and treatment remotely in their own home. This includes either preventing avoidable admissions into hospital, or supporting early discharge out of hospital. The role will involve identifying appropriate patients for the virtual ward pathway and supporting the use of remote monitoring. 

Please see the job description for more details of the main duties of this role. This is a one year fixed term post.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top

For more information please follow link https://www.royalfreelondonjobs.co.uk/

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

Person specification

Royal Free World Class Values

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Education & professional Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • First level registration
  • First level degree
  • Evidence of post registration qualification in Coronary/Cardiac care
  • Heart Failure Module
  • Physical Examination course and evidence of using these skills in practice
  • Teaching/Mentorship/Assessment qualification
Desirable criteria
  • End of Life/Advanced communication qualification or willing to work towards
  • Non-medical Independent Prescriber qualification

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Minimum 5 years recent cardiology experience with minimum 2 years at band 6 in cardiac environment
  • Evidence of teaching and developing others
  • Ability to analyse and interpret ECG’s, Echos and routine blood tests
  • Extensive experience of nursing patients living with heart failure.
  • Experience of service planning/managing change e.g. provide examples of projects/research undertaken under own initiative
  • Experience of running nurse led clinics
  • Experience of managing own caseload of patients
  • Experience of the provision of cardiac rehabilitation and secondary prevention

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Caroline Stuart
Job title
Heart Failure CNS
Email address
[email protected]

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
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Open Monday to Friday
08:30 am to 17:30pm
Telephone
01629 702338
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