Heart Failure Nurse Specialist

Job summary

This is an exciting time to join us as our newly formed Medicine and Community Care Delivery Group (CDG) brings together secondary care and community services. As we redesign pathways to improve continuity and outcomes, we are looking for a dynamic and experienced Nurse with an interest in heart failure to help bridge the gap between inpatient care, our virtual ward, and community heart failure services across Northeast Essex (NEE).

Working as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team, you will play a key role in supporting patients with heart failure to receive the right care, in the right place, at the right time, enabling better long-term condition management and reducing avoidable hospital admissions.

This role includes inpatient, outpatient, and home-based care and offers the opportunity to shape a responsive, person-centred heart failure service.

Main duties of the job

• Act as a clinical specialist in heart failure management, delivering holistic assessment, care planning and review across a variety of settings.
• Carry out single assessments and contribute to integrated care plans, supporting timely discharge and effective transitions across services.
• Develop and implement therapeutic care plans and programmes, delegating appropriately while providing clinical supervision to junior staff and support workers.
• Provide patient-centred education and self-management support to patients and carers, promoting independence and activation.
• Support optimisation and titration of heart failure therapies in line with NICE guidance and in collaboration with cardiology and primary care teams.
• Use clinical reasoning to monitor and evaluate progress and adjust care plans accordingly.
• Act as a care coordinator where required and participate in multidisciplinary case reviews and ward rounds.
• Supervise and support the professional development of more junior nurses, support staff, students and volunteers.
• Lead or contribute to clinical audits, research and service evaluation within the heart failure pathway.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester Hospital

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Colchester Hospital

Turner Road

Colchester

CO4 5JL

Employer's website

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

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