# Clinical Nurse Specialist Heart Failure > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-nurse-specialist-heart-failure/b046748d-36af-4671-92d2-2109f3acbb3c - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/clinical-nurse-specialist-heart-failure/b046748d-36af-4671-92d2-2109f3acbb3c.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist - **Grade:** Band 8 - **Salary:** £63,665 - £70,887 Pro Rata Per annum - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-07-21T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-07T14:51:16.372Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Edmonton/Royal_Free_London_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Community/Community-v7964181 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/7964181?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.royalfree.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview - The Lead Nurse CNS role for heart failure in the Hospital at Home will incorporate the dimensions of expert clinical practice, education, leadership, management and research. The post holder will be required: - Liaise with all key members of the multidisciplinary team to advise and support colleagues in the delivery of specialised patient care across professional boundaries within a H@H setting. - To work autonomously to deliver specialist clinical care appropriate to the needs of the patient group and based on principles that are research-based and enhance the quality of patient care. - To undertake nurse-led care and to be responsible for excellent standards of nursing care to patients through the planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating nurse-led clinics and services. - Line-manage clinical nurse specialists within speciality and across boundaries. - To lead and support with specialist nursing knowledge the development and implementation of programmes of nursing care for individual patients and the client group as a whole. ### Main duties of the job - Maintain a professional behaviour at all times and promote a positive image of  Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust at all times, in line with World Class Care values. - Ensure that the needs of patients are placed at the centre of care delivery, thus achieving trust and national standards for clinical quality, safety and patient experience. - To lead, negotiate, supervise, participate in, and manage caseload of patients within nurse led clinics both on and off site using advanced clinical assessment skills and clinical judgement to take a detailed history, physically assess, make any required differential diagnosis, order any tests or investigations required to confirm diagnosis, prescribe medication, evaluate and review treatment plan. - Make any alterations in the patient’s current treatment plan or drug regimen required in response to evaluating test & investigation results or changes in patients’ condition. Use advanced clinical knowledge & expertise in undertaking clinical assessments in partnership with patients and other professionals, using agreed protocols, but also where there are no appropriate precedents - Provide professional, clinical and managerial leadership to nursing and associated staff and ensure the provision of a high-quality, responsive nursing service. - Collaborate on all aspects of quality management related to the nursing and clinical area. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities - The Lead Nurse CNS role for heart failure in the H@H will incorporate the dimensions of expert clinical practice, education, leadership, management and research. The post holder will be required: - Liaise with all key members of the multidisciplinary team to advise and support colleagues in the delivery of specialised patient care across professional boundaries within a virtual ward setting. - To work autonomously to deliver specialist clinical care appropriate to the needs of the patient group and based on principles that are research-based and enhance the quality of patient care. - To undertake nurse-led care and to be responsible for excellent standards of nursing care to patients through the planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating nurse-led clinics and services. - Line-manage clinical nurse specialists within speciality and across boundaries. - To lead and support with specialist nursing knowledge the development and implementation of programmes of nursing care for individual patients and the client group as a whole. - To contribute to the facilitation of the planning, delivery and evaluation of care pathways for a designated group of patients. - To contribute to training and education within specialist area. - To promote an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through reviewing the evidence base and embedding this in practice through engagement in research activities, including QI work. - Act as a visible role model and expert practitioner. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Substantial experience in a senior nurse operational role in a Community NHS setting - Experience in running nurse led clinics pathways. Proven ability to initiate audits/research & assess evidence - Experience of developing business and workforce plans in line with future service requirements **Desirable** - Knowledge and experience of leading significant change, delivering tangible and sustained improvements ### Royal Free World Class Values **Essential** - Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values ### Education & professional Qualifications **Essential** - Registered general nurse - Evidence of recent professional / management / leadership development - Appropriate teaching certificate or extensive teaching experience - Advanced assessment qualification **Desirable** - Non- medical prescribing course or willingness to undertake - Relevant qualification and experience in the specialty ## Documents - [job description (pdf, 568.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10245688) - [person specification (pdf, 568.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10245690) - [functional requirement (pdf, 496.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10245689) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.