An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the community heart failure team. The post holder will work across Northumberland and North Tyneside.

We are a small, but vital service, in caring for patients with a diagnosis of heart failure.

The job will involve caring for heart failure patients within a community setting. Therefore there will be travel around Northumberland and North Tyneside.

A car driver is essential.

The base for this post will be Alnwick.

The working hours are Monday to Friday.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will deliver care for patients with a diagnosis of heart failure.

They will be responsible to the B7 community Heart Failure Nurse Specialists, and work as part of the team assessing heart failure patients, and managing their symptoms.

The post holder will hold their own case load, under supervision, and will be involved in medication titrations, monitoring, support and education of the heart failure patient. There will be involvement in palliative care, admission avoidance practices as well as liaising with the virtual ward team.

We care for people in their homes.

We aim to give people greater choice and control, and help them live with their condition, and avoid hospital admission where appropriate.

High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with both.

The service works closely with all primary care, secondary care services, and the wider MDT.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Provide a comprehensive specialist nursing service within the community, with an emphasis on patient centred care.
• Involvement in the development and service delivery, developing protocols and audits.
• Work in an interdisciplinary manner, to provide high quality care.
• Provide training and education in heart failure to doctors, nurses, allied healthcare professionals and students.
• Manage and evaluate admission avoidance practices within a patients home.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• 1st level Registered Nurse
• Degree in nursing / health studies or equivalent experience/training
• Mentorship qualification or Evidence of qualification to undertake the supervision, teaching and assessing of students (essential requirement for post, expectation this will be completed within an 18 month period)

Desirable

• Clinical skills course and/or advanced history taking skills
• Counselling course
• Heart Failure Course (12 month course)
• Registered non-medical prescriber
• British Association for cardiac rehabilitation Exercise Course

Experience

Essential

• Evidence of specialist education and training in Cardiology/ Heart Failure
• Knowledge of cardiology drugs and the ability to commence and adjust medications, following protocols using patient group directives. Advising GP's about appropriate drug treatment
• Knowledge of local policy/practice/procedure and national guidelines specific to Cardiology
• In depth experience cardiology nursing
• Technical knowledge of investigations

Desirable

• Venepuncture and cannulation skills
• Clinical audit and data collection of own specialist area and national audits

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Alnwick Infirmary

10 Bailiffegate

Alnwick

NE66 1LX

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319-6336296HN