Heart Failure Nurse Specialist; Band 6

Heart Failure Nurse Specialist (Band 6/7)

We are looking for a committed and motivated Community Heart Failure Nurse Specialist to join our team, supporting patients across Airedale, Wharfedale, Craven and Bentham. This is a rare and exciting opportunity to make a genuine difference to patients living with chronic heart failure within the local community. The Community Heart Failure Nurse Specialists provide high-quality, evidence-based care to patients with chronic heart failure.

The service aims to improve patients' quality of life by optimising treatments, support self-management, support palliative care, and reduce avoidable hospital admissions and primary care contacts. The post holder will work autonomously and within a small team, managing a defined caseload, delivering nurse-led clinics and home visits, and supporting patients and carers across the community.

• Provide expert assessment, care planning, and evaluation using advanced clinical skills for people with chronic heart failure.
• Manage a patient caseload, working autonomously and making clinical decisions, treatment plans, medication regimes, and referrals as required.
• Conduct nurse-led heart failure clinics and undertake home visits.
• Utilise non-medical prescribing skills to optimise heart failure medications in line with national and local guidance.
• Provide education, advice and support to patients, carers and other healthcare professionals.
• Work collaboratively with small heart failure nurse specialist team and the wider community specialist nurse team. Work with multidisciplinary teams including cardiology, general practice, palliative care and community services.
• Support continuity of care by ensuring effective communication across agencies and care settings.
• Contribute to service monitoring, audit, evaluation and development activities.

We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:

• Cycle to Work
• Travel Scheme
• Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
• Onsite Nursery
• Buying and Selling Annual Leave
• Car Leasing
• Employee Assistance Programme
• Employee Health and Wellbeing
• Extensive Reward Scheme
• Counselling Service
• Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
• Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.

Our values:

We understand that it's down to the hard work, effort and dedication of our staff that makes a difference for our patients. Our people really do make our Airedale experience - we take pride in fostering a friendly, effective and caring work environment. Our values are part of our DNA, which are:

• Committed to Quality of Care
• Compassion
• Working together for patients
• Improving Lives
• Everyone Counts
• Respect and Dignity

Got questions before you apply, please contact the recruiting manager to find out more.

Clinical Responsibilities

• Provide expert assessment, diagnosis, and treatment using advanced clinical assessment skills.
• Monitor clinical status symptoms before initiating and following medication changes, adjusting care as appropriate.
• Review patients medication regimens to ensure safe, effective pharmacotherapy.
• Assess suitability for devices and cardiology interventions, referring to cardiology services where appropriate.
• Provide palliative and supportive care, including sensitive discussions around prognosis and advanced care planning.
• Deliver personalised education and self-management advice to patients and carers.
• Promote lifestyle changes and signpost to relevant services based on individual needs.
• Ensure timely communication and act as a point of contact for patients and carers.

Service Responsibilities

• Lead on incorporating evidence based practice into holistic heart failure management.
• Organise and prioritise workload according to clinical need and service demand.
• Support the triage of new referrals and advise administrative staff as required.
• Participate in MDT meetings to optimise health outcomes and resource utilisation.
• Monitor, audit and evaluate the service to ensure high standards of care and improved outcomes.
• Contribute to heart failure education for primary and community care teams.
• Support the development of colleagues through mentoring, preceptorship and clinical leadership.

Leadership and Professional Responsibilities

• Act as an expert resource for healthcare professionals and others involved in heart failure management.
• Support service and policy development and in collaboration with the Team Leader.
• Work closely with regional partners, including the West Yorkshire Heart Failure Cardiac Network, to meet local and national targets.
• Maintain and develop specialist knowledge through CPD and reflective practice.

• Clinical experience within cardiology nursing
• Non-medical prescriber
• First Level Degree in health-related subject
• ENB 998/SLIP or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification
• Advanced clinical assessment skills

• Knowledge of a range of cardiac nursing issues
• Knowledge of current ESC and NICE…