Advanced Nurse Practitioner Heart Failure Services

Main area Advanced Clinical Practitioner band 8a heart failure services Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 382-SWC131-26

Employer Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Town Blackpool Salary £57,528 - £64,750 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 20/10/2026 23:59

Advanced Nurse Practitioner Heart Failure Services

NHS AfC: Band 8a

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

Job overview

Advanced Nurse Practitioner with a wide cardiology experience, and specifically within the subspecialty of Heart Failure to work as part of the Heart Failure Team here at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals. We are part of the Tertiary Cardiology service and have an excellent multidisciplinary team made up of Heart Failure Consultants, Heart Failure Specialist Nurses (both acute and community), Cardiology Device Nurses, Occupational Therapist and support staff. You will have use your specialist knowledge and skills to independently provide excellent care to our Heart Failure patients. You will be expected to work autonomously, and non-medical prescribing is fundamental in supporting this role.

The role will deliver the 4 pillars of advanced practice delivering clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research and support with training and development of junior staff.

You will be expected to work closely and be supported by the Heart Failure Service leads providing a proactive role in quality, service and system improvement and will assist in the monitoring and auditing of clinical standards of care within the defined area.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assess patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems, evaluating their health care needs, based on highly developed nursing/AHP knowledge and skills.

Screen patients for disease factors and early signs of illness. Make differential diagnoses using decision-making and problem-solving skills.

The role will include the initial triage, diagnosis, utilising advanced clinical decision making and management of Heart Failure to support our patient cohort, both in the acute and community setting.

With the clinical team, l eading on service improvement work including review heart failure diagnosis pathways in line with best practice.

Have a supportive role in helping people to manage and live with heart failure.

Have the authority to admit or discharge patients from their caseload and refer patients to other health care providers as appropriate.

Work collaboratively with other health care professionals and disciplines.

Provide a leadership and consultancy function as required.

Specialty will complete own job planning

Working for our organisation

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is ideally situated just a forty five minute drive from Manchester. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre and North Lancashire, as well as specialist tertiary care for Cardiac and Haematology patients.

As one of the United Kingdom’s largest coastal resort, Blackpool has plenty to offer its residents –it’s not just a good place to work; it’s a great place to live. In addition to its bustling centre and historic seafront, the town is world famous for its many attractions, including the famous Blackpool Tower. Blackpool also offers a number of scenic cycling routes round our local parks and across the surrounding countryside, as well as boasting panoramic views of the coast on its picturesque Promenade. Further afield, Blackpool also benefits from less than three-hour connections via rail to Edinburgh in the north and London in the south.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will assess patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems, evaluating their health care needs, based on highly developed nursing/AHP knowledge and skills.

Screen patients for disease factors and early signs of illness. Make differential diagnoses using decision-making and problem-solving skills.

The role will include the initial triage, diagnosis, utilising advanced clinical decision making and management of Heart Failure to support our patient cohort, both in the acute and community setting.

With the clinical team, l eading on service improvement work including review heart failure diagnosis pathways in line with best practice.

Have a supportive role in helping people to manage and live with heart failure.

Have the authority to admit or discharge patients from their caseload and refer patients to other health care providers as appropriate.

Work collaboratively with other health care professionals and disciplines.

Provide a leadership and consultancy function as required.

Specialty will complete own job planning

Person specification

Qualification & Training

• Registered Nurse 1st level registration with NMC
• Master's level qualification (or equivalent) in Advanced Clinical Practice
• Extensive experience in cardiology, specifically heart failure management (Minimum 5 years)
• Evidence of continuing professional development.
• Ability to work autonomously and within multidisciplinary teams.
• Non-Medical Prescriber (V300)
• Leadership training.
• Teaching qualification.
• Additional long-term condition management training.

Experience & Knowledge

• Minimum 7 years post-registration experience.
• Experience in acute, community, primary care or mental health settings.
• Experience working autonomously and collaboratively.
• Evidence of coordinating and directing programmes of care.

Skills & Ability

• Ability to manage distressing situations with empathy.
• Clinical governance and risk management knowledge.
• Ability to identify high-risk patients.
• Understanding of long-term condition strategies.
• Experience of policy and procedure development.
• Strong multidisciplinary working skills.
• Leadership, motivation and change management skills.
• Commitment to lifelong learning and service improvement.

You are encouraged where possible, to register for the DBS update service. This is an annual registration fee of £15. By registering for the update service you will not have the additional cost of repeated disclosures.

Should you withdraw your application, you may be required to reimburse the cost of the DBS check.

DBS checks remain free of charge for volunteer positions.

By submitting an application for this vacancy you are confirming your agreement to the above in the event you are successfully appointed.

The DBS Code of Practice can be accessed here .

Please note that every effort will be made to keep the vacancy live until published closing date, though there may be instances where such interest is generated, that for administrative reasons the post may close earlier.

Please note that in line with national NHS guidelines this Trust operates a strict non-smoking policy. Members of staff are not permitted to smoke on Trust premises or grounds at any time nor take breaks during working hours for the purposes of smoking.

The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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