Nurse Specialist - Heart Failurein317 01 Freeman Hospitalin317 01 Freeman HospitalPUBLISHED MON 10 MAR 2025
Bring your advanced nursing skills and experience in cardiology to this exciting position, where you will lead in assessing, planning, and evaluating care pathways. You’ll empower patients by offering education and support, helping them achieve the best possible quality of life. We are not just looking for qualifications but someone who embodies empathy, commitment, and a genuine desire to make a difference. If you’re ready to take on this rewarding challenge, we’d love to hear from you. Flexible working options may be available to suit your lifestyle. Don’t miss this opportunity to be part of something meaningful!
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our cardiology team as a full time permanent Heart Failure Nurse Specialist based within the Royal Victoria Infirmary.
The Heart Failure Nurse Specialist team are instrumental in delivering care to heart failure patients from diagnosis through to end of life. Providing clinical advice both within Cardiology and the wider Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals Trust.
The Nurse Specialists hold clinics within the Royal Victoria Infirmary in order to provide both pharmacological and non-pharmacological treatments to optimize treatment options to heart failure patients. You will work closely with cardiology consultant colleagues, as well as Cardiology Ward Nursing Team and Cardiology Nurse Practitioners, in a friendly supportive environment. You will also work in collaboration with our community heart failure nursing team. The assessment and review patients within the inpatient settings for instance within ward round settings is a key instrumental part of this role.
Suitable candidates should have recent and relevant cardiology experience, as well as history taking and assessment. Non-medical prescribing is also desirable not training will be considered.
If you think you can meet the essential criteria we would love to hear from you.
- Interview Date Wednesday 09 April 2025
- 37 Hours 30 Minutes/Week
NO AGENCIES PLEASE
Suitable candidates should be able to demonstrate the following
- Significant advanced knowledge and skills within specialty and sphere of practice
- Take a lead role facilitating the planning, delivery and evaluation of care pathways for a designated group of patients
- Support the development of nursing practice within the specialist field and contribute to the body of nursing knowledge
- Have the ability to act as clinical supervisor to peers e.g. other heart failure team members
- Provide specialist clinical advice and support to heart failure related multidisciplinary teams, as well as to wider clinical teams responsible for patient care
- Enable patients with heart failure to attain their best possible quality of life by titration of medication, on-going monitoring of condition and education, this may occur both within in patient and outpatient settings
- Require enhanced communication skills to convey complex information regarding medical diagnosis, management and prognosis to patients and other health care professionals
- Ensure robust data recording to enable accurate activity collection
About us
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust define a nurse specialist as a qualified nurse where the primary purpose of role is to provide guidance and support based on advanced level knowledge to patients, carers and health professionals concerning a specific disease/condition.
Within the sphere of specialist practice:
- Demonstrates significant advanced knowledge and skills within speciality and sphere of practice.
- Take a lead role facilitating the planning, delivery and evaluation of care pathways for a designated group of patients.
- Support the development of nursing practice within the specialist field and contribute to the body of nursing knowledge.
- Have corporate identity as an expert within specialist area.
- Lead and provide training and education across the organisation in relevant area of practice.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
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