Heart Failure Nurse Specialist

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Heart Failure Specialist Nurse to join the Coventry and Rugby Heart Failure Team.

We are looking for a skilled clinician who is passionate about delivering high-quality, patient-centred care and improving outcomes for people living with heart failure. This role offers the opportunity to work across acute, community, virtual and home-based settings while developing advanced specialist knowledge and clinical leadership skills.

As a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse, you will provide expert assessment, management and support for patients with heart failure. Working autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will deliver evidence-based care and contribute to the ongoing development of the service.

You will review patients through outpatient clinics, virtual consultations, telephone reviews and home visits, ensuring patients receive timely, personalised care throughout their heart failure journey.

You will be joining a friendly, supportive and well-established specialist team committed to delivering innovative heart failure services across Coventry and Rugby.

If you are passionate about specialist nursing and improving outcomes for people with heart failure, we would love to hear from you.

Informal Enquiries - Jacqui Hyland, Heart Failure Nurse Lead
Email: [email protected]

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You will review patients through face-to-face and virtual clinics, Hospital at Home, home visits and telephone consultations.

You will work closely with the multidisciplinary team (MDT), GPs, healthcare professionals, patients and carers to ensure safe, effective and personalised care.

You will:

• Provide specialist assessment and management of patients with heart failure.
• Work autonomously across acute, community and virtual care settings.
• Lead and support the Heart Failure Nursing Team.
• Develop and implement evidence-based treatment plans.
• Support optimisation of heart failure medication in line with current guidelines.
• Refer patients for cardiac rehabilitation where appropriate.
• Consider and refer patients for cardiac device therapy when indicated.
• Promote patient education, self-management and improved outcomes.
• Liaise effectively with the MDT, GPs, healthcare professionals, patients and carers.
• Promote best practice in heart failure management in accordance with national and local guidelines.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence® designated organisation – please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence ® - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This role requires the candidate to work across multiple sites, including University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW), the Hospital of St. Cross, Coventry Community services, and the Hospital at Home programme. The post holder will provide expert clinical assessment and ongoing management of patients with heart failure. Lead and support the HF nursing team to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care across all service locations. Review patients in various settings, including face-to-face and virtual clinics, Hospital at Home, patients' homes, and via telephone consultations. Collaborate and liaise effectively with the multidisciplinary team (MDT), general practitioners (GPs), healthcare professionals (HCPs), patients, and carers. Recommend and implement evidence-based treatment plans, including optimisation of medications, referral to cardiac rehabilitation, and consideration of cardiac devices where appropriate.

Promote best practice in heart failure management in line with current national and local guidelines.

For further details please see the attached job description.

A full UK driving license is essential for this post. Please note that an international driving license is not accepted.

Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

To ensure that we provide world-class patient care, UHCW recruits people that can demonstrate the Trust’s Values and Behaviours in their everyday life. Therefore, if you are invited to interview, you will be undertaking a Values Based Interview/Assessment, which explores not only what you do but how and why you do it.
Before applying, we encourage you to review the Trust’s Values and Behaviours which can be accessed on the right side of this page under the job description.
The Supporting Information Section in your application should therefore reflect your understanding of the Trust’s Values and associated Behaviours. You will be expected to provide us with examples from work experience and/or personal life which demonstrate these values through your behaviour.

The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities within the workplace. All vacancies will be considered for Job Share unless otherwise stated. All applicants who have a disability and who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be interviewed. Where a post has an overwhelming response, this Trust may use random selection in order to reduce numbers to interview, any disabled applicants will automatically be guaranteed an interview and will be exempt from this process.

In submitting an application form, you authorise University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire NHS Trust to confirm from your previous or current NHS employer and other prior employers; previous NHS service details and personal data held about you, including Occupational Health data (inoculations and screening tests). This data will be transferred using NHS Electronic Staff Record and third-party systems via an automated process and only used for the purposes of obtaining and maintaining accurate employment records, should you be appointed to the post.

UHCW NHS Trust, by virtue of its Green Plan, is committed to ensuring that the way we provide services minimises the impact on the environment and the future health of the public e.g. zero waste to landfill, reducing our carbon footprint and increasing our recycling and reuse percentages.

If you are successful at interview you will receive a conditional offer of employment and we’ll ask you for information so that we can carry out pre-employment checks. You must successfully complete all pre-employment checks to progress to a final unconditional offer.

We must confirm the identity of our staff and their right to work in the United Kingdom. We will ask you to submit proof of your identity and right to work documents via a secure digital platform approved by the Home Office, named TrustID. Alternatively, you may be asked to attend our office with original documents.

Depending on you level of exposure with patients you may be required to undertake a Standard or Enhanced DBS. The cost of this check will be charged to you and will be deducted from your salary over the first 3 months of employment at the current rate.

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