# Heart Failure Nurse Specialist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Croydon Health Services NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/heart-failure-nurse-specialist/4d09ab6d-f24f-43fb-9ea1-2a13fcf5db2e - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/heart-failure-nurse-specialist/4d09ab6d-f24f-43fb-9ea1-2a13fcf5db2e.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Croydon Health Services NHS Trust - **Location:** Croydon University Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Clinical nurse specialist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £55,524 - £62,652 pa inc HCAS (pro rata) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 26.25 hours per week (This could be worked over 3 or 4 days) - **Closing date:** 2026-11-25T23:59:59.999Z - **Posted:** 2026-11-11T00:01:05.861Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Croydon/Croydon_Health_Services_NHS_Trust/cardiology/cardiology-v8381826 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8381826?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.croydonhealthservices.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview Our friendly and well established heart failure service in Croydon is looking for a highly motivated nurse to join our team in this large and diverse London borough. We are a pro-active and innovative multidisciplinary team, working across community sites and within Croydon University Hospital. We are currently running some exciting service development projects and strive to deliver high quality care to all our heart failure patients. If you have heart failure experience with excellent organisational and communication skills and would like to join our team, we would love to hear from you. The ideal candidate would be an experienced heart failure nurse, qualified in physical examination and non- medical prescribing, however professional development will be supported. The successful candidate must be committed to working with heart failure patients, providing excellent standards of care and being an integral member of the multidisciplinary team. Interviews: 8th December 2026 ### Main duties of the job The Heart failure service at Croydon is an integrated service . You will be required to work in both the inpatient setting and the community, optimising the management and delivery of heart failure care to adults with Heart Failure. You will be required to use advanced specialist skills and knowledge to undertake full assessments of patients with Heart Failure, leading to safe decision making and implementation of management plans. Providing effective, evidenced based treatment, improving patients’ quality of life through delivering high-standard and holistic care. You will be required to independently manage a community caseload. Excellent communication skills are required and the ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team is essential, liaising with all health professionals treating heart failure patients in primary, secondary care and tertiary centres to ensure seamless care. To actively participate in multidisciplinary team meetings To take part in developing heart failure services and clinical practice through involvement in management, teaching, education, research and audit activity. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Please see the attached supporting document (Job Description) which contains more information about the role. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Experience **Essential** - Minimum 2 years experience as working as a band 6 - Able to demonstrate having worked with heart failure patients - Able to demonstrate previous involvement in teaching and presentations **Desirable** - Experience of working as a band 7 in cardiology/heart failure - Community experience and/or previous nurse-led clinic experience - Involvement in clinical audit or research ### Skills/experience **Essential** - Excellent written communication - Demonstration of management and organisational skills - Able to recognise own limitations and areas of profession development required ### Education/qualifications **Essential** - Qualified nurse with NMC registration - Heart failure or cardiac CPD qualification at level 6 - Teaching/mentorship qualification **Desirable** - NMP or willingness to undertake prescribing course - Physical assessment course or willingness to undertake in the near future ## Documents - [croydon trust values (pdf, 324.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2317) - [chs dbs policy statement (pdf, 53.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=972) - [job description band 7 hfns (pdf, 416.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10710718) - [map of croydon university hospital (pdf, 95.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=974) ## 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.