Senior Heart Failure Nurse Specialist inSouthampton inSouthampton PUBLISHED
THU 24 OCT 2024
Candidates should possess advanced clinical assessment skills, an NMP qualification, and experience with heart failure symptom management. Effective communication skills are essential, as the role often requires having difficult conversations with patients and families. A driving license for traveling across sites is necessary, along with an interest in digital technology integration into healthcare services. Successful candidates will demonstrate the ability to work autonomously and collaboratively while also serving as role models and educators within the team.
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for detailed job description of the role.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a substantive Band 7 Senior Heart Failure Nurse Specialist at UHS.
We are looking to recruit a motivated, innovative and experienced Heart Failure Nurse Specialist for the Heart Failure Team, focusing on developing the digital provision of care.
You'll be working collaboratively with multidisciplinary team colleagues across both the hospital and community settings, covering Southampton and South West Hampshire. Responsibilities will include both clinical nursing management as well as leadership in conjunction with the heart failure management team.
You will be providing evidence based, expert clinical care and support for patients with heart failure in the most appropriate setting, this includes both face to face and remote management. You will be integrating and developing patient held digital services (MyMR) to achieve effective and personalised management, education and communication to heart failure patients about their condition.
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Candidates should have advanced clinical assessment skills having completed a post qualification course in history taking and physical examination and experience of managing the signs and symptoms of heart failure.
They should have an NMP qualification and an understanding of the heart failure medications they prescribe, balanced with knowledge of the often complex symptom burden of heart failure patients.
They will be an effective and caring communicator, ideally with an advanced communication qualification, knowing that they will often need to engage in difficult conversations with patients and their family and carers.
A driving license and ability to travel across sites is necessary.
An interest in developing and understanding digital technology, it's application and integration into the heart failure service is required as this will be part of the role.
Skill and enjoyment of both autonomous and team working is essential. Candidates will be role models to team members. They will shares skills and develop, manage and teach colleagues.
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