Heart Failure specialist nurse
Job Description
Job summary
An Exciting opportunity to join our Integrated Heart Failure Service at Liverpool University Hospital Foundation NHS Trust based at the Royal hospital .
We are seeking a highly motivated individuals with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the development of a cohesive management programme for patients with heart failure in line with local and national guidelines, working across acute, community and virtual ward settings. The service will operate 7 days per week and requires flexibility working within an evolving proactive, dynamic multidisciplinary Heart failure Team
The main aim of the role is to preventing unnecessary admissions to hospital and improving Heart failure management and control with optimisation of evidence based treatments.
.The successful candidate will need to be a NMC registered nurse who has physical health assessment skills and is a non-medical prescriber. You will need to demonstrate strong clinical reasoning and prioritisation skills and be able to work effectively, both independently and as a member of a team.
Annex 21 position will be considered
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide expertise and advice in the treatment of highly complex conditions, undertaking treatments as required.
In addition the post holder will use their expertise to be a source of training and mentorship to those within the immediate team/area and as necessary, more widely.
Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes. Key
About us
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women's Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
Job responsibilities
Provide care, advice and guidance in the treatment of others, when dealing with complex highly specialist conditions.
Responsible for the delivery of identified specialist training.
Work in partnership with the other services/stakeholder partnership agencies to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.
Ensure that the team provides a high quality service to its patients/clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.
Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.Develop partnerships and joint working with service users and stakeholders to improve patient/client care.
Work in partnership with other organisations to support the effective and co- ordinated provision of health and social care services.
Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.
Challenge professional and organisational boundaries to ensure that the role is focused on meeting the needs of service users.
Act as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.
Act as a role model to others ensuring that patients receive the most effective care possible.
Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the target population.Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making.
Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to others when managing complex and highly complex situations.
Assess patient conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex care, drawing on specialist services as required.
Undertake chronic disease management reviews of the housebound patient/client, where appropriate.
Provide support in managing patients/clients with chronic diseases.Following holistic assessment of need, develop individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, with the involvement of patients and carers.Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Master's degree or equivalent in relevant discipline.
- Registration with relevant professional body.
- Post registration qualification, or demonstrable equivalent experience.
- Post registration qualification, or demonstrable equivalent experience.
- Evidence of CPD/short courses.
Desirable
- Appropriate prescriber
Experience
Essential
- Experience of management and clinical leadership.
- Experience of successful multi-agency working.
Desirable
- First line management experience
Knowledge
Essential
- Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care.
- Understanding of multi-agency working.
- Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy
- IT literate
- Ability to work to timelines and manage a diverse workload.
Skills
Essential
- Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
- Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients / carers / colleagues
- Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues.
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
- Risk assessment skills.
- Ability to understand and analyse complex data.
- Self-management and motivation skills
- Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues.
- Report writing skills.
- Research skills.
- Ability to travel to work across boundaries
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Aintree Hospital
Long moor Lane
Liverpool
L97AL
