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Job summary

Main area
medicine
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref
339-MED3235-LMG
Employer
North Bristol NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Southmead Hospital
Town
Bristol
Salary
£37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/05/2025 23:59
Interview date
02/06/2025

Employer heading

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Enhanced Practitioner

NHS AfC: Band 6

 

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity has become available for a passionate and enthusiastic nurse to join the Heart Failure team at North Bristol NHS Trust. This team will deliver safe, effective, and timely clinical intervention to adult inpatients who are acutely unwell or have a new diagnosis of heart failure covering both inpatient and outpatient spells.   
 
This nurse led team will act with a high degree of autonomy to support high quality care for acutely unwell patients with heart failure.
 
Practitioners in this team will respond to acute deterioration at an early stage and provide expert knowledge and understanding of patients in acute and chronic heart failure. They will provide an advanced clinical assessment and initiate investigation and clinical intervention to avert further deterioration. They will work in close collaboration with the parent specialty and ward teams to deliver high quality care and will support education of ward staff across the multi-disciplinary team. 

Main duties of the job

The enhanced practitioners will be supported in developing as autonomous practitioners. They will assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment interventions within the heart failure service and will work in close collaboration with the senior enhanced practitioners in the team. They will already have experience of cardiology more specifically heart failure and will thus bring a range of specialist skills and knowledge. They will continue to develop these skills in this role.  

Working for our organisation

North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialties. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.
 We commit to treating each patient as an individual with respect and dignity, aiming to deliver excellent clinical outcomes and a first-class experience for everyone who uses our services.
North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This role will involve working as part of a team, the practitioner will develop the use of autonomous practice, making complex decisions and provide high quality care for patients who have an acute decompensation of know heart failure or have presented with a new diagnosis of heart failure.  You will be responsible for an outpatient caseload ensuring their treatment is fully optimised as well as providing support and education for the patient / carer / family. 


The practitioner will develop expertise on the use of clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations.


The practitioner will demonstrate leadership skills, resilience, and determination, assisting in the management of situations that are complex or unpredictable under the guidance of the wider team. 


For a more detailed comprehensive outline of the job description and main responsibilities see attached. 

Person specification

Education

Essential criteria
  • Professional registration
  • PACR
  • Ongoing professional development

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Evidence of managing Heart Failure Patients
  • Interest in Heart Failure

Work Experience

Essential criteria
  • Excellent organisation and leadership skills
  • Evidence of ongoing learning and development

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Karen Butcher
Job title
Lead Heart Failure Specialist Nurse
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
011741441368
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