Heart Failure Nurse Specialist; Band 6

Overview

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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.