Community Heart Failure Specialist Nurse

1. To work as a clinical expert and autonomous clinician to provide heart failure services across the designated locality, provide a seamless service for patients, involving advanced clinical assessment, symptom management, medications management, patient education and psychological care and caseload mange to ensure safe discharge back to GP with heart failure care plan where able.

2. To work in collaboration with other members of the acute HF service with access to weekly MDT.

3. Work across organisational and professional boundaries to improve quality of patient care

4. To provide education and support to other members of the multidisciplinary team

5. To ensure carers receive support and are signposted to appropriate services

6. To ensure excellent end of life care as appropriate and facilitate

7. To ensure accurate documentation and data collection to prove service.

8. Assist as delegated by the Team Leader in the recruitment of staff, appraisalprocess, risk assessment process, incidents and complaints, and theperformance management process.

9. Assist in clinical supervision and peer review including mentorship tojunior colleagues.

10. Provides clinical leadership to team members

Participate in the identification and development of clinical protocols and strategies to enhance both the continuity and standard of specialist care in line with NICE and the ESC guidelines.

Assist in the delivery of an advanced specialist nursing service for people with a diagnosis of heart failure with reduced ejection fraction.

Provide specialist nursing advice and support to patients, their families and other healthcare professionals following diagnosis and through treatment.

To provide timely evidence-based care to patients who are seen either in a clinic or home setting.

Ensure continuity of a high standard of evidence based nursing care, assessing health, health related and nursing needs of patients, and other carers by identifying and initiating appropriate treatments or signposting appropriately to other services.

Coordinate and attend weekly MDT meetings ensuring all active caseload patients are presented when required.

To manage a specified case load of patients, providing education, information, and support to patients and /or caregivers.

To improve patients understanding of their condition to enable them to make informed choices about their care and understand the rationale of investigations and treatments and ensure personalised

Regularly review those clinical notes of patients requiring service input, ensuring all assessments, diagnostic investigation and test results are up-to-date and in place.

Actively involve service users in providing feedback of their experiences of the current service and suggestions for improvements

Attend meetings and conferences as appropriate ensuring that you are fully conversant with current issues both within the Trust and within the specialist services locally and nationally.

To ensure patient journey is seamless as possible and ensureexcellent end of life care as appropriate.

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast

Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

Other

Essential: - Use of car with business insurance for community work

Qualifications

Desirable: - Independent Nurse Prescriber; - ECG Interpretation Module

Experience

Desirable: - Experience of project management; - Experience of Audit and service evaluation; - Experience of clinical leadership in a service

Skills & Knowledge

Desirable: - Ability to use health education and counselling strategy effectively