Wye Valley NHS Trust

Clinical Nurse Specialist in Heart Failure

The closing date is 14 July 2025

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our proactive and dynamic Heart Failure Cardiac Rehabilitation Team. You will lead and work as part of the team, co-ordinating and deliver evidence based clinical practice in line with current research and guidelines.

You will work closely with Cardiology Clinical Nurse Specialists, Generic Cardiac Rehabilitation and Cardiology Consultants to ensure patients with Heart Failure receive the best care possible.

This role will cross boundaries between primary and secondary care, helping to develop the best solution for a community Heart Failure Nursing Service.

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Heart Failure you will ensure the delivery of high quality, clinically effective care. You will work alongside other Clinical Nurse Specialists in Cardiology and Cardiac Rehabilitation. You will be responsible and accountable for the management of the Heart Failure Cardiac Rehabilitation Team.

Heart Failure is a complex diagnosis and you will need to meet the needs of these patients in accordance with national, local policies and initiatives.

You will undertake supervision of practice, implement clinical audit and strategic development by contributing to research, teaching and supporting professional colleagues.

You will provide managerial support to the Line Manager, to include budgetary, workforce and governance responsibilities.

You will be a Non-Medical prescriber, working within you scope of clinical practice as either independent or supplementary prescriber and work to develop better titration of patients diagnosed with Heart Failure.

You will help to develop links between primary and secondary care, working to develop a community Heart Failure Nursing Service to sit within the current Heart Failure Cardiac Rehabilitation Team.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South WarwickshireUniversity NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care wed want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time.

Details

Date posted

12 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year Dependant on experience, pa pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

229-MED-7161795

Job locations

Wye Valley Trust Hereford County Hospital

Stonebow Road

Hereford

HR1 2ER


Job description

Job responsibilities

For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification

Job description

Job responsibilities

For more information about the role and responsibilities please see the attached job description and person specification

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Nurse/Allied Health Professional
  • Health Assessment Module (Masters level)
  • Non- medical Prescribing Module
  • MSc in Advanced Practice (or working towards)
  • Cardiology specific qualification or equivalent experience
  • ILS Qualification (or ALS)

Desirable

  • BACPR or equivalent qualification
  • Teaching qualification
  • Motivation Interviewing/Behaviour change/counselling course

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

  • Leadership ability
  • Time management of self and others
  • Demonstrate an ability to problem solve highly complex activities
  • Analytical and judgmental skills requiring analysis
  • Knowledge of Psychological Behavioral Models to assist change

Experience

Essential

  • Post registration experience in cardiology
  • Experience in implementing change
  • Demonstrate the ability to deliver advanced clinical skills in practice

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Able to prioritise workload to meet short deadlines and an unpredictable work pattern which requires regular revision to plans
Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

  • Registered Nurse/Allied Health Professional
  • Health Assessment Module (Masters level)
  • Non- medical Prescribing Module
  • MSc in Advanced Practice (or working towards)
  • Cardiology specific qualification or equivalent experience
  • ILS Qualification (or ALS)

Desirable

  • BACPR or equivalent qualification
  • Teaching qualification
  • Motivation Interviewing/Behaviour change/counselling course

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

  • Leadership ability
  • Time management of self and others
  • Demonstrate an ability to problem solve highly complex activities
  • Analytical and judgmental skills requiring analysis
  • Knowledge of Psychological Behavioral Models to assist change

Experience

Essential

  • Post registration experience in cardiology
  • Experience in implementing change
  • Demonstrate the ability to deliver advanced clinical skills in practice

Personal Attributes

Essential

  • Able to prioritise workload to meet short deadlines and an unpredictable work pattern which requires regular revision to plans

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Wye Valley NHS Trust

Address

Wye Valley Trust Hereford County Hospital

Stonebow Road

Hereford

HR1 2ER


Employer's website

https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer details

Employer name

Wye Valley NHS Trust

Address

Wye Valley Trust Hereford County Hospital

Stonebow Road

Hereford

HR1 2ER


Employer's website

https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)


Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Cardiac CNS Lead

ANGELA HAVARD

Angela.Havard@wvt.nhs.uk

01432364205

Details

Date posted

12 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year Dependant on experience, pa pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

229-MED-7161795

Job locations

Wye Valley Trust Hereford County Hospital

Stonebow Road

Hereford

HR1 2ER


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