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Band 7 Community Heart Failure Specialist Nurse

Potential development opportunity at Band 6 moving up to Band 7 on completion of required qualifications.

18.75 hours per week - Permanent

Are you a Cardiac/HF specialist nurse who strives to make a positive difference to the lives of patients who live with heart failure?

Do you have the passion, drive, skills and ability to deliver high quality person-centred compassionate care for patients with long term conditions in accordance with the Trust’s organisational vision and values?

If the answer is yes, then this exciting opportunity to join our Community Heart Failure Service at Midlands Partnership Foundation NHS Trust could be the perfect career move for you.

We are seeking a highly motivated individual with excellent interpersonal and communication skills to work in our Community Heart Failure Service. The successful candidate must be committed to supporting patients with a diagnosis of Heart Failure delivering focused specialist nurse led interventions as part of MPFT Long-Term Conditions Service.

As previously stated we will consider recruitment of a suitably skilled nursing candidate, who has qualified in physical health assessment skills and can demonstrate appropriate experience of working in cardiac or heart failure care clinical settings to commence at Band 6 and would be supported to undertake the prescribing module to then step up to Band 7 Specialist Nurse remit.

Main duties of the job

Essential elements of the role include assessing, planning and the implementation of holistic packages of care to patients and their carer’s who have a diagnosis of Heart Failure.

As an autonomous non-medical prescriber you will provide community and domiciliary specialist care providing timely and appropriate optimisation of evidence based therapies. The main aim of the role is to provide an intense level of care  and treatment intervention optimising the use of latest cardiac therapies, to support the individual to manage their condition, preventing unnecessary admissions to hospital and to improve the patients overall quality of live up to and including provision of specialist palliative care directive.

The successful candidate will need to be a NMC registered nurse who is a non-medical prescriber and has the relevant specialist post- graduate (Masters) qualification, and/or professionally recognised clinical courses in Heart Failure Management; Or significant equivalent experience with considerable evidence of professional development. You will demonstrate strong clinical reasoning and prioritisation skills, and be able to work effectively, both independently and as a member of a team and a commitment to professional development, contributing to a culture of continuous improvement

Working for our organisation

You must have a desire to work collaboratively with patients and key partners to facilitate the best possible patient experience and outcomes? If you are interested in making a difference to patients and families living with heart failure and possess excellent communication, organisational skills and a flexible approach then we would like to hear from you.

As well as all the excellent NHS Benefits including a generous pension scheme and annual leave entitlement we also offer:

• Full support for new employees including a full induction. 
• Career progression opportunities with full support and guidance.
• Competitive mileage. 0.59p per mile (up to 10,000 miles)
• Lease car options are available following successful probationary period. (terms and conditions apply)
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave

And much more!