Heart Failure Nurse

Job summary

The Community Heart Failure Service is a well-established team of experienced Heart Failure Specialist Nurses, Heart Failure Assistant, and admin staff, working across Central locality of Horsham, Crawley, and Mid Sussex. You will work within the Heart Failure team with patients in the community and clinic setting but you will have clinical support from senior team members as well as the primary and secondary care heart failure teams.

Our aim is to improve patient's symptoms and quality of life using pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions, requiring close monitoring, whilst working hard to reduce unnecessary hospital admission & readmission in line with National initiatives and guidance.

To provide expertise, increase the skills & confidence of other community practitioners in the care and management of heart failure patients and support the use of the NICE & ESC Clinical Guidelines for heart failure.

Main duties of the job

Facilitating the development of evidence-based standards, protocols for the service to work to and pathways and audit tools for patients with heart failure to ensure provision of a holistic service for patients & carers.

Establishing the development and management of patients through a combination of nurse led heart failure clinics and home visits, incorporating clinics with primary care teams and early follow up in line with local service specification

Provide heart failure advice and support to other team members and the multidisciplinary team for heart failure patients as they approach the end of their life, drawing on the expertise of the Palliative care team when required

About us

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.

We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
• Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
• Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
• Excellent training and development opportunities
• Research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
• Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
• Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
• Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
• Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
• Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff