Clinical Nurse Specialist - Tower Hamlets Community Heart Failure

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Clinical Nurse Specialist – Tower Hamlets Community Heart Failure

Band 7

Main area: SBH BARTS HEART CENTRE

Grade: Band 7

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Part time – 15 hours per week

Job ref: 259-7030848SBH

Site: Mile End Hospital

Town: London

Salary: £54,320 – £60,981 per annum inc (pro rata)

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 16/03/2025 23:59

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.

We are looking for a highly motivated, enthusiastic and experienced nurse to join our Community Heart Failure CNS team in Tower Hamlets. This post is part time to cover Thursdays and Fridays.

The Heart Failure clinical nurse specialist is a role for an independent practitioner working within the multi-disciplinary cardiology team. The post holder will work closely with the whole multidisciplinary team to take responsibility for helping to coordinate the clinical care of heart failure patients within the borough.

Main duties of the job

To work with health professionals across all interfaces to improve the awareness and diagnosis of heart failure and to ensure appropriate systems that underpin good practice are in place. To achieve and maintain standard of care set by clinical guidelines (NSF for CHD and NICE guidelines) and protocols developed nationally and locally.

To liaise with MDT to ensure a model of care that will provide a comprehensive care package to all heart failure patients in acute care.

To provide access to care and support for patients through exercise and education programs and focus groups to enable them to optimise their potential and thereby improve and maintain the best possible quality of life.

Continuing to improve standards of patient care through evidence based research/practice and participation in the National Heart Failure audit.

Coordinate the provision of palliative care support for patients with end stage heart failure, promoting greater collaboration amongst the health care professionals caring for this group of patients. Co-ordinate care in the acute setting and ensure seamless care provided along the Heart Failure pathway.

To undertake nurse led Heart Failure clinics in the community as well as undertaking home visits, to manage patients symptoms and ensure that they are on optimal medications (titrate/initiate/discontinue as appropriate).

Identify working groups to develop strategic guidelines and policies.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Mentorship/teaching course
• Case Management competencies

Skills

• Good clinical skills
• Interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work autonomously and be proactive
• Ability to reflect on practice
• Knowledge of the NHS and wider context
• Word processing and database skills
• Experience in writing protocols

Knowledge

• Experience in cardiac care

As an Equal Opportunities Employer we actively support applications from individuals who apply under the Guaranteed Interview Scheme and will process your application as appropriate.

You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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