Community Heart Failure Nurse
- NHS
- Full Time
- Burton-on-Trent
- 29970.00 - 36483.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
We are seeking a highly motivated individual with excellent interpersonal and communication skills to work in our East regional area Heart Failure team. The successful candidate must be committed to working clinically in planned care delivery, empowering patients with a diagnosis of Heart Failure to maintain a high quality of life whilst monitoring symptoms.
You will join our Specialist Nurse led team, who form part of MPFT Long Term Conditions Specialist services community care provision in Staffordshire, working in partnership with both the local hospitals and wider primary care services across the regional area.
Essential elements of the role include review and clinical monitoring of cardiac treatment and medication plans put in place for patients by the specialist nurses. Providing continued planning and implementation of holistic packages of care with the MDT, to support and enable Heart failure patients and their carer's to live the best quality of life as possible in the community setting.
Main duties of the job
Our skilled specialist nurses are autonomous non-medical prescribers, and working alongside them you will provide community domiciliary care visit support, monitoring patients who are undergoing rapid cardiac titration as part of optimisation of evidence based cardiac therapies. The main aim of the Heart Failure nursing role is to provide an intense level of care to optimise therapies, support the individual to manage their condition, prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital, and to improve the provision of palliative care for patients with this long-term condition. You will gain focused skills to support cardiac service delivery to patients and provide further holistic assessment intervention and support.
You will need to be a NMC registered nurse who has a real interest in the nursing management and support of patients with Heart failure.From initial diagnosis to end of life provision and specialist support. You must have a desire to work collaboratively with patients and key partners to facilitate the best possible patient experience and outcomes. You will need experience of nursing patients with long term conditions, have good core clinical observation skills, venepuncture skills and the potential to deliver IV therapy to patients in the home.If
About us
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;
- Supporting your career development and progression
- Excellent NHS Pension scheme
- Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
- Options for flexible working
- Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days)
- Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
- If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
- Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
- Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
- Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
- Free car parking at all trust sites
- Free flu vaccinations every year
- Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please be aware that the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in completing application forms will be monitored to ensure fairness and transparency. If you have used AI you must state this in your application.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications
Job responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Provide an optimal level of care for patients with heart failure, by demonstrating an understanding of the underlying pathophysiology of heart failure, mechanisms of therapeutic intervention to the condition, and the significance of physical and psychological changes within the patient.
- Responsible for reviewing, implementing and evaluating programmes of care, which will support the patient by providing an equitable, efficient, effective high quality and safe heart failure service.
- Build upon existing partnerships with specialist palliative care services to facilitate the delivery of a palliative care approach to patients with advanced congestive cardiac failure
- Assist in the delivery of seamless care through the use of integrated care pathways in collaboration with GP's, Consultants, Palliative Care providers.
- Undertake an appraisal with line manager annually
- Assist with the collection, analysis and evaluation of data relating to the heart failure service, which includes patient related outcome measures.
- Maintain personal & professional development in line with the NMC "Code of Professional Conduct" and understand accountability within the "Scope of Professional Practice".
- Take steps to safe guard the welfare, health and safety of all staff, patients and their families according to local policies
- Act as role model in the delivery of all aspects of heart failure patient care
- Responsible for clinical governance and management of risk within case load.
- Ensure all statutory and mandatory training completed as required
- Committed to own Professional Development
- Provision of care tasks that require a level of skill and dexterity e.g. venepuncture
- Facilitate the assessments of students, and postgraduate students, undertaking both teaching supervisory roles
- Participate in research programs as appropriate
For further information please refer to the JD/PS attached
Person Specification
QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential
- Registered nurse with a current NMC
- Diploma or Degree In Nursing Studies
Desirable
- Evidence of post graduate study or willingness to undertake V150
- Physical Assessment qualification
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Venepuncture
- Post registration experience
Desirable
- Ability to cannulate or willingness to undertake training
- Heart Failure Course or willingness to undertake
- Experience in Cardiology/Acute medicine
- Community experience
- Experience in management of heart failure patients- use of skills to support cardiac patients ie ECG monitoring
SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE & ABILITIES
Essential
- Knowledge of health and social care legislation, polices, objectives and how they apply to day to day practice.
- Understanding of the roles of other voluntary and statutory agencies relating to the delivery of care within the Primary Care setting.
- Knowledge base of NMC Code of Conduct and Scope of Practice
- Sound clinical skills.
- Ability to work independently and within a team.
- Effective inter-personal skills
- Ability to implement research based practice
- Presents information effectively both formally and informally in a variety of forms
- Presents sensitive or confidential information with discretion
- Writes accurate notes of important conversations and meetings
- Ability to assess clinical risks and find ways to mitigate them.
Desirable
- Knowledge of National and local heart failure guidelines and how to apply these in clinical practice
- Understanding of the wider multidisciplinary team involved in the management of heart failure patients
- Experience of assisting in student nurse training.
- Evidence of organisational skills.
- Previous Caseload Management experience.
- Counselling Skills
- Communicates effectively to external groups
- Key working relationships across health and social care ensuring the patient centred care
- To contribute to pathways of care for heart failure service in conjunction with other service providers including the acute trust, local hospice and other community agencies.
- Ability to critically analyse new clinical evidence and transfer this to practice
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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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