Heart Failure Nurse

at  Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a part-time (3 days a week) band 6 Community Heart Failure Nurse to join our friendly, busy yet rewarding team in East Berkshire.
This is a Specialist Practitioner post which enables the individual to be responsible for ensuring high quality, evidence based care for patients with the diagnosis of Heart Failure, their families and carers in the community. The post holder will also be managing patients within the nurse led heart failure clinic. The service is provided across Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust.
Exercise high levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in clinical care
Take responsibility for case management of patients with heart failure in community settings.
Make differential diagnosis within level of competence
Plan and provide treatment in collaboration with others as appropriate
Titrate heart failure medications in accordance with the NICE guidelines
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
Demonstrate effective Chronic Disease management
Ability to effectively manage challenging behaviour and or conflict
Car driver with ability and readiness to travel to multiple sites
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!
We welcome a conversation about flexibility and any other questions you may have. Please don’t hesitate to call Lucy Girdler-Heald on 07824 550511 lucy.girdlerheald@ berkshire.nhs.uk, who’ll be happy to help.
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required