Community Heart Failure Nurse

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 post involves caring for heart failure patients within a community setting with travel around Northumberland and North Tyneside. A car driver is essential.

The base for this post will be North Tyneside and Northumberland. The working hours are Monday to Friday.

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 caseload, 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.

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.

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: judith robson

Job title:

clinical operational lead community cardiology Email address:  Telephone number: