Senior Heart Failure Specialist Nurse

Job Summary

Are you a passionate and experienced cardiac nurse ready to lead and innovate in heart failure care? An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the UHNM Hospital Inpatient Heart Failure Team for a 12-month period to cover maternity leave. We are seeking a dynamic and compassionate Band 7 Heart Failure Specialist Nurse to join our multidisciplinary team within secondary care. This is a pivotal role focused on delivering expert clinical care, driving service improvement, and supporting patients with complex heart failure needs.

The service delivers high quality patient‑centred care within an Ambulatory Heart Unit focusing on early diagnosis of heart failure, rapid optimisation of heart failure therapy and early facilitated in‑hospital discharge.

• Deliver expert assessment, diagnosis, and management of patients with heart failure, including medication titration and optimisation in line with national guidelines.
• Provide tailored education to patients and carers, promoting self‑management and improving quality of life.
• Lead on discharge planning and ensure continuity of care through effective communication with community and primary care teams.
• Act as a clinical leader, supporting junior staff and students through mentorship, supervision and role‑modelling.
• Contribute to the design, delivery and evaluation of heart failure services, ensuring alignment with best practice and local priorities.
• Lead or participate in audits, service evaluations and quality improvement initiatives to enhance patient outcomes.
• Deliver formal and informal training to nursing and multidisciplinary colleagues on heart failure management.
• Support or lead research initiatives and integrate evidence‑based findings into clinical practice.
• Maintain NMC registration, adhere to clinical governance frameworks and engage in continuous professional development.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke‑on‑Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and are highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential. UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected.

In return we ask all our employees to make a commitment to the values co‑created by staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust. At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

• Date posted: 05 February 2026
• Pay scheme:
  Agenda for Change
• Band:
  Band 7
• Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year pa
• Contract:
  
  Fixed term
• Duration: 12 months
• Working pattern:
  Full‑time
• Reference number:
• Job location:
  
  University Hospital North Midlands NHS Trust, Newcastle Road, Stoke‑on‑Trent, ST4 6QG

Essential

• Level 1 registered nurse on NMC register
• Health assessment module
• Non‑Medical Prescribing Qualification (V300)
• Evidence of Heart Failure Management Qualification

Desirable

• Evidence of teaching and mentorship
• Evidence of counselling skills

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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• Employer name:
  University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust
• Address:
  University Hospital North Midlands NHS Trust, Newcastle Road, Stoke‑on‑Trent, ST4 6QG
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