Clinical Lead Heart Failure

Job overview

Are you a dynamic, compassionate clinical professional looking to shape the future of community heart failure care? This is a brilliant opportunity for a highly skilled and specialised nurse professional to join CNWL NHS Trust and lead Camden's Community Heart Failure team. We are seeking an exceptional Clinical Lead to drive high-quality, patient-centred services across our local Camden population. This is a unique opportunity to lead a passionate team, influence service development and ensure people living with heart failure receive the right support, in the right place, at the right time.

In this pivotal role, you will champion evidence-based practice, provide expert clinical leadership, and work closely with primary, secondary, and social care partners to create seamless pathways that empower patients to manage their condition confidently at home. You will oversee complex case management, promote early intervention, and lead innovative initiatives aimed at reducing hospital admissions and improving quality of life.

We are looking for someone with strong clinical expertise in cardiology, community experience, proven leadership skills and a commitment to compassionate, holistic care. In return, you’ll join a forward-thinking organisation that values professional development, encourages autonomy and embraces strong partnership working.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will use their leadership skills and clinical expertise to lead and manage the service in the delivery of quality care for people living with heart failure. The post holder will work closely with, and support patients and their families/carers, GPs and the wider MDT to:

• Provide evidence-based treatment in community-based clinics, patients’ own homes and secondary care during visits working as an independent practitioner
• Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all relevant stakeholders to provide the best standards of chronic heart failure care.
• Advise GPs, medical teams and other health care professionals caring for people with heart failure regarding medication adjustments, changes in condition or treatment plans
• Identify of new cases of undiagnosed heart failure and diagnosed patients who are on sub- optimal evidenced based therapy
• Provide person-centred heart failure management as effectively and compassionately as possible in the community
• Lead and operationally manage the specialist nurses in the Heart Failure team and the clinics in which the service operates, responding to changes in demand, being proactive with service review, facilitating rotation and cover of each element of the specialist role, including clinics, domiciliary care, (in reach), and heart failure patient education programs.
• Collaborative working with other services such as GPs, PCN, secondary care to improve patient care and outcomes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Deliver specific heart failure patient assessment and management in our community-based clinics, patients' own homes and secondary care during visits working as an independent practitioner.

Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all relevant stakeholders to provide the best standards of chronic heart failure care.

Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse but also recognising their own limits and asking for help and escalate concerns when necessary

Escalating safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services

Being open and transparent about their own practice

Supervising the work of less experienced staff.

Reflecting on everyday practice to identify areas where improvements in safety or quality can be made.

Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement e.g. participating in quality improvement (QI) projects.

Maintaining accurate, legible, comprehensive records

Maintaining compliance with their mandatory training requirements.

Lead and develop the efficient delivery of a specialist nursing heart failure service, responding to changes in demand, being proactive with service review, facilitating rotation and cover of each element of the specialist role, including clinics, domiciliary care, (in reach), and heart failure patient education programs.

Occasionally cover for Service Manager of LTC and attend meetings and feedback to LTC leads and teams and likewise escalate to senior management.

Work in collaboration with MDT and colleagues in hospital and community settings so as to promote strong links between primary and secondary care

Collaborative working with other services such as GPs, PCN, secondary care to improve patient care and outcomes.

Deliver specific heart failure patient assessment and management in community-based clinics, patients own homes and secondary care during visits working as an independent practitioner

Develop and maintain effective working relationships with all relevant stakeholders to provide the best standards of chronic heart failure care.

Advice GPs, medical teams and other health care professionals caring for people with heart failure regarding medication adjustments, changes in condition or treatment plans