Band 6 Heart Failure Nurse

Are you interested in working with patients living with heart failure? Are you an enthusiastic, proactive, assertive person who wishes to learn and extend your role? Do you enjoy communicating and collaborating with people from all disciplines? If you have these skills and attributes and experience of caring for patients within a cardiology setting, we would be delighted to consider your application.

Our heart failure specialist nurse team plays a pivotal and dynamic role in the care of our patients with heart failure. We have developed excellent systems of care, for example automated NTproBNP referrals and a heart failure clinical pathway, and are integrated with an excellent multi-disciplinary team including the community and palliative care teams. You will be working in a team caring for acute inpatients primarily, from first diagnosis to end stage heart failure. Your role will be focused on ensuring medicines are optimised, providing lifestyle and self-care advice to patients and carers, and ensuring the patient has a comprehensive management plan on discharge. You will be preparing patient information for medicine and device MDTs and inputting data into the national heart failure database (NICOR).

You will receive a comprehensive induction programme, will be supported by band 7 HFSN, and follow the BSH competency framework to guide development in your role.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will facilitate the provision of high quality specialist care to patients with acute and chronic heart failure assisting in the diagnosis, treatment and follow up care in the outpatient setting.

They will be expected to liaise appropriately with all key members of the multi-disciplinary team and service users related to the specialty.

Job responsibilities

Please see the job description and person specification attached for more details of the main responsibilities of the role.

Person Specification Royal Free World Class Values

• Demonstrable ability to meet the Trust Values

Education & professional Qualifications

• Evidence of post registration qualification relevant to specialty
• Advanced Life Support provider
• Educated to Master's degree or willing to work towards
• Mentorship qualification or ENB 998, or other teaching qualification or evidence of relevant experience

Experience

• Evidence of teaching and developing others
• Completed Non-Medical Prescriber Course or willing to undertake.
• Completed Clinical Assessment Course or willing to undertake.
• Recent experience of nursing cardiology patients in an acute setting.
• Substantial nursing experience at a senior level.
• Experience of running nurse led clinics
• Experience of managing own caseload of patients

Skills and Aptitudes

• Expert specialist skills for the post
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Understanding of recognised standards & policies related to chest pain management and ACS.
• Understanding of advanced practice nursing roles
• Understanding of audit process
• Understanding of research process
• Excellent patient assessment skills
• Knowledge of current advances and pathways of care relevant to specialty
• Excellent communication skills and ability to negotiate and influence
• Skilled in use of computer/keyboard
• Ability to problem-solve, prioritise and to work to deadlines
• Ability to motivate staff and improve individuals and team performance
• Ability to develop collaborative working relationships with multi professional teams
• Able to manage stressful situations and challenge decisions to ensure that patient needs are met
• Able to lead, manage and motivate others in complex problem solving and assessment skills
• Ability to lead and influence others
• Successful track record in conflict resolution and performance management.
• Ability to prioritise workload
• Commitment to ongoing lifelong learning and personal development.
• Experience of Clinical Supervision

Personal Qualities & Attributes

• Be a positive role model with the ability to demonstrate a credible and professional approach
• Ability to work under pressure
• Ability to work as a team and form professional relationships with colleagues
• Diplomatic and calm
• To be flexible and approachable
• Flexibility in shift and working patterns to meet the needs of the service

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.

£42,939 to £50,697 a year per annum inclusive of HCAS