Job summary
- Main area
- Cardiology Specialist Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 292-7540090-MED
- Employer
- The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust
- Town
- Harlow
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum, plus 5% high cost area supplement
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Heart Failure Nurse Specialist
NHS AfC: Band 7
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) provides a full range of general acute, outpatient and diagnostic services at The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, the Herts and Essex Hospital in Bishop’s Stortford, and St Margaret’s Hospital in Epping.
Our values
The Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust (PAHT) promise to our patients, as identified by our three values which will contribute to improving our patients’ experiences, is:
Patient at heart – Always holding the patient and their wellbeing at the centre of our thoughts and efforts.
Everyday excellence – Sharing and celebrating our successes, being honest when we get it wrong, giving us the ability to learn from both.
Creative collaboration – Knowing strength comes from diversity, we combine our experiences, skills and talents, working together to find new and better ways to care.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and patient-centred heart failure service at Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust. As a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse you will play an important role in improving the diagnosis, management and overall care experience for patients living with heart failure.
You will be working closely with multidisciplinary teams to facilitate smooth inpatient pathways, support early discharge and deliver high-quality nurse-led follow-up in clinic. You will act as a key clinical resource, providing expert advice, education and support to patients, families and healthcare professionals and ensuring care is aligned with national guidance and best practice.
The post also offers the opportunity to contribute to service development and audit, including the National Heart Failure Audit, and to help shape integrated care across hospital and community interfaces. You will also play an important role in supporting advanced care planning for patients with advanced heart failure.
This is an excellent role for an experienced and motivated cardiac nurse who is passionate about delivering high-quality, evidence-based heart failure care and driving service improvement.
Main duties of the job
- To work with health professionals across Princess Alexandra Trust Hospital and all interfaces to improve the awareness and diagnosis of heart failure, and to ensure appropriate systems that underpin good practice are in place.
- To provide care and support to heart failure patients/families/carers in secondary and primary care settings, utilising case management where appropriate.
- To liaise with MDT’s, and Heart Failure Teams in Primary Care to ensure a model of care that will provide a comprehensive care package to all heart failure patients in secondary & primary care.
- Complete audit data specifically the National heart Failure Audit.
- To lead in obtaining, interpreting and action upon patient investigations as appropriate and within agreed clinical protocols recognising when and where to seek advice.
- To ensure provision of high quality nurse led follow up both on the ward and in clinic focussing upon information, patient education around prevention, compliance and concordance with current guidance.
- To ensure all patients when admitted or readmitted to the acute Trust are reviewed to ensure that their medications are optimised to reduce the LOS and repatriate home under the supervision of primary care teams.
- To provide care and support to patients through education to optimise their potential and improve and maintain the best possible quality of life.
- To lead and co-ordinate the provision of palliative care support for patients with end stage heart failure
Working for our organisation
This is an exciting time for the Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust. We are on a digital transformation journey leading us to our brand new hospital.
We believe that our people are our greatest asset. That’s why we invest in continuous learning, career development, and personal growth. From nurses to administrators, everyone has a role to play in our success story.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and person specification for the full job details. This is available to download at any time.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- Post Registration Cardiology Specific Training
Desirable criteria
- Clinical Assessment Skills Qualification
- Non-medical Prescribing Qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Minimum of 4 years post registration experience some of which must in a cardiology setting and or primary/acute experience
- Experience in cardiac care
Desirable criteria
- Experience in heart failure care in either primary or secondary care
- Teaching experience
- Audit work
Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced clinical skills
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
- Good Leadership Skills
Desirable criteria
- Health Promotion and education skills
- Use of evidence based practice
- ECG interpretation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Francis Castaneda
- Job title
- Heart Failure Specialist Nurse - Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01279 978723
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