Heart Failure Nurse Specialist

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

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Job summary

We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.

We are expanding our heart failure service and have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and enthusiastic Heart Failure Specialist Nurse to join our growing 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 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 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 are in the process of establishing our Heart Failure virtual ward. We support daycase diuresis/intravenous iron injections for our heart failure patients.

The service is fortunate to be led by both a committed Heart Failure Consultant Cardiologist and a Heart Failure Nurse Consultant and as well as a Heart Failure Lead Specialist Nurse. We have a specialist Heart Failure pharmacist on the team and we are in the process of recruiting a psychologist for the service.

Main duties of the job

The Heart Failure Specialist Nurse will work with the wider heart failure team to ensure that patients within the population we serve have timely, equitable access to high quality, evidence based heart failure care throughout their entire pathway

The successful candidate will:

  • Follow NICE guidelines for the management of acute and chronic heart failure and support the service in achieving National targets
  • Will be an experienced practitioner confident in managing a caseload of patients in a variety of settings
  • As part of the multidisciplinary heart failure team will help to develop, implement and evaluate a seamless integrated specialist service, ensuring that patients receive the highest standard of evidence based care
  • Demonstrate a high level of expertise within the service, providing specialist advice, education and support to patients and other health care professionals
  • Provide specialist nursing advice to support and facilitate high quality, individualised care to patients/clients and relatives/carers without supervision in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team in line with local and national targets

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities. We encourage staff to have the Covid vaccination to protect themselves, patients, other colleagues as well as the wider community. Please note it is an operational requirement to comply with infection prevention and control procedures within the Trust such as lateral flow testing, handwashing and the wearing of masks, according to the procedures in place at any time or location.

As part of our continued response to Covid19 we are still conducting the majority of our interviews virtually.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share.

Date posted

09 December 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49,036 to £55,049 a year Inclusive

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

290-SCCS-327

Job locations

Charing Cross Hospital

London

W6 8RF


Job description

Job 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.

Job description

Job 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.

Person Specification

EDUCATION

Essential

  • Registered Nurse
  • ENB 998/ Slice or C&G 730 equivalent experience
  • Evidence of further training to enhance scope of practice
  • ILS

Desirable

  • Post registration relevant qualification
  • Teaching and Assessing qualification or equivalent teaching experience.

SKILLS/ ABILITIES

Essential

  • Has specialist nursing knowledge of Heart Failure Nursing
  • Able to demonstrate sound and competent heart failure nursing knowledge of working within Primary and Secondary care.
  • Has a wealth of insight into all aspects of heart failure
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Knowledge of the NHS and wider context

Desirable

  • Knowledge of relevant national heart failure guidelines
  • Able to demonstrate highly developed specialist knowledge within heart failure

EXPERIENCE

Essential

  • Worked within cardiac/cardiothoracic nursing to gain a high level of cardiac experience.
  • Experience of working in the community
  • Experience of working within protocols

Desirable

  • Significant post registration cardiology experience
  • Experience of teaching
Person Specification

EDUCATION

Essential

  • Registered Nurse
  • ENB 998/ Slice or C&G 730 equivalent experience
  • Evidence of further training to enhance scope of practice
  • ILS

Desirable

  • Post registration relevant qualification
  • Teaching and Assessing qualification or equivalent teaching experience.

SKILLS/ ABILITIES

Essential

  • Has specialist nursing knowledge of Heart Failure Nursing
  • Able to demonstrate sound and competent heart failure nursing knowledge of working within Primary and Secondary care.
  • Has a wealth of insight into all aspects of heart failure
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Knowledge of the NHS and wider context

Desirable

  • Knowledge of relevant national heart failure guidelines
  • Able to demonstrate highly developed specialist knowledge within heart failure

EXPERIENCE

Essential

  • Worked within cardiac/cardiothoracic nursing to gain a high level of cardiac experience.
  • Experience of working in the community
  • Experience of working within protocols

Desirable

  • Significant post registration cardiology experience
  • Experience of teaching

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

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

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Charing Cross Hospital

London

W6 8RF


Employer's website

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

Employer details

Employer name

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Address

Charing Cross Hospital

London

W6 8RF


Employer's website

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

For questions about the job, contact:

Lead Heart Failure Nurse

Clare Screeche-Powell

clare.screeche-powell@nhs.net

02033123242

Date posted

09 December 2022

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£49,036 to £55,049 a year Inclusive

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

290-SCCS-327

Job locations

Charing Cross Hospital

London

W6 8RF


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