Advanced Nurse Practitioner Heart Failure Services

Main area Advanced Clinical Practitioner band 8a heart failure services Grade NHS AfC:
Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job
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Employer Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Blackpool Teaching Hospitals Town Blackpool Salary £57,528 - £64,750 Per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 20/10/2026 23:59

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year.

We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

Advanced Nurse Practitioner with a wide cardiology experience, and specifically within the subspecialty of Heart Failure to work as part of the Heart Failure Team here at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals. We are part of the Tertiary Cardiology service and have an excellent multidisciplinary team made up of Heart Failure Consultants, Heart Failure Specialist Nurses (both acute and community), Cardiology Device Nurses, Occupational Therapist and support staff.

You will have use your specialist knowledge and skills to independently provide excellent care to our Heart Failure patients. You will be expected to work autonomously, and non-medical prescribing is fundamental in supporting this role.

The role will deliver the 4 pillars of advanced practice delivering clinical practice, leadership and management, education, and research and support with training and development of junior staff.

You will be expected to work closely and be supported by the Heart Failure Service leads providing a proactive role in quality, service and system improvement and will assist in the monitoring and auditing of clinical standards of care within the defined area.

The post holder will assess patients with undifferentiated and undiagnosed problems, evaluating their health care needs, based on highly developed nursing/AHP knowledge and skills.

Screen patients for disease factors and early signs of illness. Make differential diagnoses using decision-making and problem-solving skills.

The role will include the initial triage, diagnosis, utilising advanced clinical decision making and management of Heart Failure to support our patient cohort, both in the acute and community setting.

With the clinical team, l eading on service improvement work including review heart failure diagnosis pathways in line with best practice.

Have a supportive role in helping people to manage and live with heart failure.

Have the authority to admit or discharge patients from their…