Heart Failure Nurse Specialist

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and enthusiastic Heart Failure Specialist Nurse to join our multidisciplinary heart failure team at Imperial.

We are an established, integrated heart failure service covering 3 acute hospital sites, one of which has a specialist Heart Assessment Centre. As an integrated service we run community heart failure clinics for our local population as well as managing patients living with heart failure in their own homes.

We cover a diverse population of patients admitted to our hospitals and living in London. We provide specialist support and education for our colleagues managing heart failure patients within both primary and secondary care.

We are committed to improving our heart failure service. We run a remote monitoring service for our heart failure patients and support both a Heart Failure virtual ward and day case diuresis/intravenous iron injections for our heart failure patients.

Ideally we are seeking to recruit a nurse with experience in working autonomously with HF patients, however If you are interested in starting a career in heart failure we are able to offer a band 6 training position with the aim of successfully achieving competence to move to band 7 in one year.

All applicants must reflect a good understanding of the speciality and role as well as a strong commitment towards improving care within heart failure.

Main duties of the job

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care, providing specialist advice and actively seeking evidence based practice which will improve the quality of care and meet the needs of a group of patients.
• Manage episodes of care as own/joint/ shared caseload, discharging patients as per protocol.
• Maintain and update own clinical expertise and contribute as role model to ensure the delivery of nursing care is at highest possible level to meet patient care.
• Develop tools to improve the quality of the service.
• Monitor the quality of nursing care and action audit information to achieve agreed standards and take the lead on customer care initiatives. This will include the development and utilisation of local action plans.
• Takes the lead in ensuring the provision of care is in accordance with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust’s polices & procedures.
• Ensure that nursing documentation is maintained to the NMC and Trust standard (including electronic records) and implement audits of records to measure and evaluate care planning.
• To act as patient advocate in line with the NHS plan and to actively apply in depth knowledge of holistic/socio-economic and cultural aspects of the care to clients within your specific speciality, acting as a role model and resource for patients, relatives and staff.
• Identify clinical risks and ensure that appropriate action is taken, in accordance with the Trust Risk Management policy.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.