Community Heart Failure Nurse Specialist

at  Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust

The Barnet Heart Function Improvement Service has a Heart Failure nurse vacancy within the well-established team of Heart Failure nurse specialists. The Barnet Service currently provides a bespoke combination of domiciliary care and community outpatient clinics to heart failure patients within the London Borough of Barnet. The team is well supported by a lead cardiology consultant alongside other cardiology team members, an operational service lead, specialist nurses and physiotherapist, clinical psychologist, and service administrator. The Barnet Heart Function service coexists alongside a well-established Community Respiratory COPD service. The post will be delivered predominantly in the Barnet community with scope to evolve at pace with Community Heart Failure provision initiatives within North Central London. Given this role will be delivered within the community setting and requires travel between different locations a car owner driver is required.
To as a Senior Heart Failure Specialist Nurse whilst individually managing and undertaking own caseload, work alongside the other members of the heart failure team within both Primary and Secondary care to deliver evidence-based care to patients with Heart Failure.
To assess and treat patients within the specialty who have highly complex physical, psychological, and social needs and work as an autonomous practitioner in delivering heart failure care.
The Heart Failure Specialist nurse will also co-ordinate an education programme for appropriate community health professionals and act as a resource for advice.
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!

WE CAN OFFER YOU:

A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
Flexible working options
Annual travel card loan
Training, support and development in your career
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To use specialist Heart Failure knowledge and skills to safely identify, maintain and manage a caseload of heart failure patients, providing them with appropriate treatment, support, and advice.
Monitor Heart Failure patients immediately following discharge in order to prevent readmission.
To contribute to the development of care pathways for people with Heart Failure as part of the Barnet Heart Failure working group, ensuring appropriate NICE guidelines are implemented.
To undertake comprehensive assessments of complex Heart Failure patients with co- morbidities, including physical examination, and to develop treatment plans for patients using investigative and analytical skills, and to formulate individualised management and treatment plans using clinical reasoning.
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