Community Heart Failure Nurse Specialist

at  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

A Monday-Friday 8am-4pm working pattern is just one of the attractions this opportunity provides. We are looking to recruit a Band 7 Community Heart Function Nurse Specialist based Upton Hospital in Slough to cover our Windsor and Maidenhead caseload.
You will be an enthusiastic and experienced nurse, with a warm personality and great people skills. Willing to undertake relevant training, you will have leadership experience and be able to demonstrate innovative practice. Showing effective management skills, you will take responsibility for case management of patients with heart failure in a community setting.
You will be responsible for ensuring high quality evidence based care for patients with heart failure, their families and carers in the community.
Run community-based Heart Failure clinics in various community settings
Work flexibly in response to service need across multiple sites
Take responsibility for case management of patients with heart failure in the community setting
Supporting colleagues in the delivery of compassionate, safe and structured care
Make differential diagnosis within level of competence
Plan and provide treatment in collaboration with others as appropriate
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.
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Recent Clinical Experience within the speciality
Advanced Physical assessment skills
Demonstrate effective Chronic Disease management
Nurse Prescribers course
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification. We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
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