Heart Failure Nurse-Community

at  Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

DESIRABLE CRITERIA

• Post registration qualification in (appropriate area of speciality)
• Demonstrates specialist expertise underpinned by theory acquired through CPD
• Post registration qualification in (appropriate area of speciality)
  Your application: Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.
  References: You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.
  Closing date: In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
  Shortlisting: You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.
  DBS: We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

APPLICANT REQUIREMENTS

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.

YOU MUST BE A CAR DRIVER WITH ACCESS TO A VEHICLE FOR WORK PURPOSES, AS THIS POST INVOLVES TRAVELLING TO DOMICILIARY VISITS,

As Deputy to the Heart Failure Nurse Specialist, you will support the service to provide evidence based treatment for patients with heart failure. This includes monitoring of the condition, behavioural modification, health promotion, specialist care to improve quality of life by slowing disease progression and improving symptoms to reduce mortality, preventing re-admission to hospital and improving palliative care provisions for patients and carers.

MAIN DUTIES OF THE JOB

Independently manage a group of patients within the specialty whilst working as part of a small team , delivering specialised individualised and personalised direct patient care.
Demonstrate appropriate practice and specialist advice in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of patient care. This includes history taking, physical examination and the requesting of agreed diagnostic procedures/clinical investigations.
Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication
Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the speciality. To interpret information and take appropriate action and to lead others to do the same

DETAILED JOB DESCRIPTION AND MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES

Please see the attached supporting Job description/Person Specification documents which contains more information about the role