Heart Failure Specialist Practitioner; Band 7

Package Description

• £47,810 - £54,710 (Band 7 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases such as grocery shopping and cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s 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 as 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 you’re 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 ring fenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Are you an experienced, dynamic, forward‑thinking, and enthusiastic registered nurse?

Do you have a passion for managing people with heart failure either in their own home or in a clinic?

If so, then this may be the job for you!

We are looking for an experienced band 7 heart failure specialist nurse to join our team based in Keynsham Health Centre but working across the BSW area.

You will be working as part of a team as well as autonomously within the community, caring for patients who meet the community heart failure specialist nurses’ criteria in clinic as well as in their own homes. You will aim to prevent hospital admission, promote independence within the patient’s own home, optimise medication and empower patients with self‑management of their condition.

As part of the role, you will be expected to have excellent communication skills and the ability to work closely and liaise with the wider multidisciplinary team in primary and secondary care.

As this is a community role, we would require applicants to have a driving licence and access to a car for work purposes.

• Assist in the management of a defined caseload of high‑risk people
• Manage clinics within BANES location
• Optimize medication and prescribe
• Engage in effective communication with patients, relatives, carers, and other agencies
• Undertake visits to service users
• Use assessment skills to identify service users’ needs and act appropriately
• Promote shared decision making with individuals regarding their care plan encouraging proactive self‑management

For a full list of responsibilities please see the attached job description.

• Be a registered nurse with NMC registration
• Hold a qualification in non‑medical prescribing V300
• Have a qualification and experience with management of chronic heart failure
• Have a driving licence and access to a car for work purposes
• Be able to work as part of a team whilst also having the ability to work autonomously using their intuition
• Experience in a community role would be essential

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.

Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year – guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a…