Job summary
Are you an experienced cardiac nurse? Are you looking to widen your specialist skills by joining our Community Heart Failure team? Would you like to develop and implement services to address health inequalities? Our team has a new Lead Nurse and recently merged with North Middlesex University Hospital, so this is an exciting time for you to join us. The role involves identification and management of adults at risk of developing, or living with, heart failure in Enfield. You will be working within a multi-disciplinary team and the voluntary care sector to support people who are at risk of admissions to hospital. We hope you will want to join us in ensuring our heart failure specialist community raise awareness of the importance of recognising heart failure symptoms early, getting an accurate diagnosis and ensuring patients receive optimal treatment.
This is a fixed-term contract until March 2023 with a view that this will extend and become permanent with funding from NHSE. This is an ideal secondment opportunity for those with acute cardiac experience to develop their skills and/or those with community heart failure experience.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the job
As a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse, you will provide specialist nursing care for patients living with Heart Failure (HF). Whilst the primary focus of this role will be in delivering the health inequality work, you will also be working alongside the existing HF team. You will manage a patient caseload, reviewing patients at home, in clinic and by telephone to ensure optimal medical therapy, promoting self-care strategies and onward referrals to teams such as cardiac rehabilitation and palliative care. You will share enthusiasm and expertise in HF clinical nursing skills to peers and community carers and work closely to implement management plans with other members of the community team including cardiologists and HF Consultants at North Middlesex University Hospital/Royal Free Hospital and general practitioners. We are a well-established heart failure nurse team in Enfield and would welcome and support you to care for our patients. The ideal candidate would be an Independent Prescriber who is experienced in cardiology, however, if you do not meet the full personal specification, we would certainly consider your application for a band 6 developmental role if you have other relevant experience that may be advantageous in this role.
About us
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium sized District General Hospital based in Edmonton in Enfield, North London. We serve a diverse multicultural population largely from the London boroughs of Enfield and Haringey. Many of our patients live in wards that are within the 5% most deprived in the UK and a large proportion of our patients were born abroad. This makes it both a fascinating and a challenging hospital to work in.
Over the last decade we have rebuilt almost all of the hospital and now have facilities that we are proud to work in. We employ over 3,500 staff, more than half of whom live locally. We encourage apprenticeships from the local community and work closely with our local Health Watch.
We are primarily an emergency led hospital with more than 90% of our bed days being used for patients admitted via our emergency and ambulatory units. As well as offering everything you would expect from a major acute hospital we have a number of tertiary services treating patients with HIV and Sickle Cell Disease and a large cancer and radiotherapy service. We also run our local community Sexual Health Clinics.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main duties:
- You will hold responsibility for own caseload within this specialty, working without direct supervision.
- You will have access to advice and support from peers, both internally and externally to the Trust, and from the nurse lead and service manager as required.
- You are required to undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
- To be aware of and manage any clinical governance issues pertaining to own service and to highlight these to nurse consultant
- To delegate supervision where appropriate and supervise junior staff members within the service.
- To assist and support service lead in implementation of specific changes to practice or service protocols in order to improve quality of care to patients.
- Assist and support audit, evaluation and research projects, co-coordinating their implementation to further own and teams performance
- To contribute to the delivery of health promotion activities within the service and wider Trust initiatives
- To assist as required in recruitment, selection, CPD, discipline and staff development within own service.
- To supervise/mentor student placements within the service.
- To deal with complaints and act as Trust investigator following appropriate training
- Liaise with other agencies in order to deliver and develop more effective Heart Failure service to the community
- To act as deputy in the absence to the nurse lead for service
Job description
Job responsibilities
Main duties:
- You will hold responsibility for own caseload within this specialty, working without direct supervision.
- You will have access to advice and support from peers, both internally and externally to the Trust, and from the nurse lead and service manager as required.
- You are required to undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
- To be aware of and manage any clinical governance issues pertaining to own service and to highlight these to nurse consultant
- To delegate supervision where appropriate and supervise junior staff members within the service.
- To assist and support service lead in implementation of specific changes to practice or service protocols in order to improve quality of care to patients.
- Assist and support audit, evaluation and research projects, co-coordinating their implementation to further own and teams performance
- To contribute to the delivery of health promotion activities within the service and wider Trust initiatives
- To assist as required in recruitment, selection, CPD, discipline and staff development within own service.
- To supervise/mentor student placements within the service.
- To deal with complaints and act as Trust investigator following appropriate training
- Liaise with other agencies in order to deliver and develop more effective Heart Failure service to the community
- To act as deputy in the absence to the nurse lead for service
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse Level 1
- Relevant first degree
- Post Registration accredited disease speciality course/qualification in cardiac nursing or Heart Failure
Desirable
- Advanced physical assessment course or commitment to attain if post becomes substantive
- Evidence of Masters Degree or Masters level working gained through experience
- Nurse Prescriber or commitment to attain if post becomes substantive
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate substantial knowledge and proven clinical experience in cardiac nursing and or specifically experience of nursing patient with heart failure
- Clinical background in cardiac nursing
Desirable
- Experience of working in the community setting
- Experience of working in Primary Care
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Knowledge of current issues, research and developments within the sphere of heart failure nursing
- Awareness of national, local, strategic and operational policy developments and implications
- Ability to demonstrate experience, understanding and awareness of the whole portfolio of treatments for heart failure
Desirable
- Teaching certificate/ diploma ENB 998 or equivalent
Personal attributes
Essential
- Excellent communication/interpersonnel skills
- Ability to lead and motivate others
- Evidence of a commitment to own personal and professional development and the capacity to reflect and learn from others
- Full clean driving licence
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse Level 1
- Relevant first degree
- Post Registration accredited disease speciality course/qualification in cardiac nursing or Heart Failure
Desirable
- Advanced physical assessment course or commitment to attain if post becomes substantive
- Evidence of Masters Degree or Masters level working gained through experience
- Nurse Prescriber or commitment to attain if post becomes substantive
Experience
Essential
- Demonstrate substantial knowledge and proven clinical experience in cardiac nursing and or specifically experience of nursing patient with heart failure
- Clinical background in cardiac nursing
Desirable
- Experience of working in the community setting
- Experience of working in Primary Care
Knowledge and skills
Essential
- Knowledge of current issues, research and developments within the sphere of heart failure nursing
- Awareness of national, local, strategic and operational policy developments and implications
- Ability to demonstrate experience, understanding and awareness of the whole portfolio of treatments for heart failure
Desirable
- Teaching certificate/ diploma ENB 998 or equivalent
Personal attributes
Essential
- Excellent communication/interpersonnel skills
- Ability to lead and motivate others
- Evidence of a commitment to own personal and professional development and the capacity to reflect and learn from others
- Full clean driving licence
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.
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
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).
