Band 7 Heart Failure Nurse inSheerness inSheerness PUBLISHED FRI 8 NOV 2024

Are you passionate about transforming care and optimising patient outcomes for individuals with heart failure? Join our dedicated team across Sheppey and Sittingbourne, North Kent as a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse!

In this vital role, youll use your clinical expertise and leadership skills to bridge the gap between general practice and specialist teams, helping reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and enhancing the quality of life for people with heart failure. Youll collaborate with healthcare providers, offer essential support and education to patients and caregivers, and lead clinical governance initiatives to ensure we consistently meet and exceed our quality and performance targets.

Hours are Monday to Friday 9am-5pm excluding bank holidays and weekends. As this role is community based across Sheppey and Sittingbourne,a UK driving license and access to a car for work purposes is a requirement.

Key Responsibilities include:

• Patient Care & Education: Provide expert guidance and compassionate support, delivering complex and sensitive information empathetically to empower patients in managing their heart failure.

• Clinical Advocacy: Act as an advocate for patients, particularly in residential settings, ensuring their needs are met to manage heart failure effectively.

• Team Collaboration: Build and maintain strong working relationships with multidisciplinary teams and partner agencies to enhance continuity and quality of care.

• Education & Mentorship: Lead training programs for healthcare teams, patients, and caregivers to foster understanding and practical skills in heart failure management.

• Quality & Safety Assurance: Drive clinical governance at the team level, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and legislation while monitoring quality, safety, and service performance.

• Service Improvement: Play a critical role in analysing patient outcomes, implementing service improvements, and engaging in continuous professional development.

About us

You will feel valued as a Band 7 Heart Failure Specialist Nurse within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• 23/24 AfC Band 7 Salary (depending on experience) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions

• Plentiful on site-parking

• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you

• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates

• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling

• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise

• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding good or outstanding ratings from the Care Quality Commission

• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location

  The Ideal Candidate

  This role requires a UK driving license and access to a car for work purposes.

  This role requires strong organisational, supervisory, and data management abilities, along with the capacity to work both independently and in team settings.

  • Leadership & Communication: Strong people management, communication, and IT skills.

  • Clinical Expertise: Registered General Nurse with NMC registration, with a relevant clinical qualification, ideally a Masters or postgraduate certification in heart failure.

  • Mentorship & Governance: ENB 998 or mentorship qualification, with an understanding of the Governance Framework.

  • Knowledge & Clinical Skills: Proficiency in heart failure management, knowledge of current policies, NICE, and ESC guidelines, as well as drug and physiology specifics related to heart failure.

  • Experience: Minimum 2 years of experience with heart failure patients (acute or community, Band 6 or above) and proven interagency collaboration and change management skills.