Advanced Clinical Practitioner Heart Failure Virtual ward

We have an exciting opportunity for an ACP to join our Integrated Heart Failure Service at Liverpool University Hospital Foundation NHS Trust. We are looking for an ACP to support our Virtual Ward Urgent Response Service.

The service will operate 7 days per week8 am till 8 pm and requires flexibility working within an evolving proactive, dynamic and committed multidisciplinary Heart failure Team

Using Tele medicine, the candidate will have clinical oversight and (in conjunction with Consultants) responsibility for patients who are being managed in their own homes. This will involve working with external agencies and technologies to provide an enhanced Hospital at Home and Early Supported Discharge service for patients with Heart Failure.

The successful candidatewill need to demonstrate strong clinical reasoning and prioritisation skills be an effective leader and have the ability to work independently and as a member of a team., 1.To improve the experience and outcomes of care for patients by taking thelead in investigations and treatments prescribed.2. To provide a consistent and personalised service by ensuring that thepatients receive the best care, in the best place from the best person or team.3. To provide social, emotional and psychological support for patients fromreferral and throughout their treatment.4. To deliver expert specialist evidence-based care including development,assessment, planning, implementing, evaluating programmes of evidencebased care for a defined caseload.5. To make appropriate referral to consultants/other specialist/members of themultidisciplinary team in primary, secondary or tertiary care settings.6. To be aware of risk management issues both locally and nationally anddevelop strategies to address identified issues.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.