Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated professional to join our dedicated Heart Failure team as a Clinical Nurse Specialist. In this pivotal role, you will have ongoing responsibility for delivering a high-quality, evidence-based service for patients admitted with heart failure, ensuring they follow the right care pathway and helping to reduce hospital length of stay.

You will play a key part in shaping clinical practice, delivering both national and local priorities, and leading education, training, and audit initiatives. Empowered to make advanced clinical decisions, you'll provide expert advice and support to colleagues, working closely with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the best possible outcomes for patients.

Collaboration is at the heart of this role -- you'll work in partnership with patients, their families, and healthcare professionals across all areas, ensuring a seamless, compassionate, and effective service.

If you're passionate about driving service excellence in heart failure care and have the skills to inspire and influence at all levels, we'd love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Promote excellent practice trust-wide in the assessment, diagnosis and management of patients who develop, or are admitted with HF, practising autonomy as a core member of the cardiac team and wider MDT to reduce Length of Stay.
• Act as a liaison between the Acute Medical Team, Cardiologists, Nurses and MDT ensuring timely review of HF patients, including advice, and requesting of specific tests and appointments.
• Participate in setting up and running nurse led HF clinics
• Prescribe appropriate medications as a non-medical prescriber, and adjust and advise on treatment changes, continually evaluating the quality of patients care

About us
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust

Job responsibilities
Are you looking for an exciting role using your unique qualities, then we want to hear from you.For full details about this varied and rewarding role, please see attached job description.We look forward to your application.Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive a suitable number of applications.

Person Specification
Experience
Essential

• significant experience in specialist cardiac area at band 6

Desirable

• MSC advanced nursing practice

Qualifications
Essential

• Bsc Nursing
• non medical prescriber
• specialist cardiac course

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.

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Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).