Community Heart Failure Clinical Nurse Specialist - Walton Community Hospital

The role of the Heart Failure Nurse within the community has been established to meet the needs of people with heart failure in the Surrey locality. The aim is to optimise the management of people with heart failure, reducing unnecessary hospital admissions and providing a link between the GPs and specialist teams. The post holder will offer education and support to health care professionals, people with heart failure, and those who care for them.

Main duties of the job include:

• Communicating highly sensitive information and bad news to patients and carers in an empathetic and supportive manner, empowering the patient to manage their condition.
• Teaching patients and their carers to manage their heart failure to the best of their abilities, aiming to prevent short-term and long-term complications.
• Communicating effectively with patients and carers to ensure a clear understanding of heart failure and its management, involving complex, sensitive information.
• Acting as an advocate for patients, particularly in residential homes, ensuring they receive the understanding and facilities needed to manage their heart failure.
• Maintaining and developing effective joint working relationships with nursing and medical colleagues throughout partnership working.
• Providing advice and information on heart failure, which may be complex, to medical and nursing colleagues and the general public.

CSH Surrey are part of the NHS and are Surrey's largest and longest established NHS community services provider. Our staff enjoy excellent training and development opportunities, including the care certificate, apprenticeships, numeracy and literacy courses, access to the Nursing Associate programme, and a wide variety of management and leadership courses and programmes. We CARE about our staff through our values of Compassion, Accountability, Respect, and Excellence. CSH is a diverse organisation, welcoming candidates from all backgrounds who meet the essential criteria of the job.