Band 7 Heart Failure Nurse

Are you passionate about transforming care and optimising patient outcomes for individuals with heart failure? Join our dedicated team across Sheppey and Sittingbourne, North Kent as a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse! In this vital role, youll use your clinical expertise and leadership skills to bridge the gap between general practice and specialist teams, helping reduce unnecessary hospital admissions and enhancing the quality of life for people with heart failure. Youll collaborate with healthcare providers, offer essential support and education to patients and caregivers, and lead clinical governance initiatives to ensure we consistently meet and exceed our quality and performance targets. Hours are Monday to Friday 9am-5pm excluding bank holidays and weekends. As this role is community based across Sheppey and Sittingbourne,a UK driving license and access to a car for work purposes is a requirement.,

• Patient Care & Education: Provide expert guidance and compassionate support, delivering complex and sensitive information empathetically to empower patients in managing their heart failure.
• Clinical Advocacy: Act as an advocate for patients, particularly in residential settings, ensuring their needs are met to manage heart failure effectively.
• Team Collaboration: Build and maintain strong working relationships with multidisciplinary teams and partner agencies to enhance continuity and quality of care.
• Education & Mentorship: Lead training programs for healthcare teams, patients, and caregivers to foster understanding and practical skills in heart failure management.
• Quality & Safety Assurance: Drive clinical governance at the team level, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and legislation while monitoring quality, safety, and service performance.
• Service Improvement: Play a critical role in analysing patient outcomes, implementing service improvements, and engaging in continuous professional development.
  
  About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care. Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs 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. Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone. While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.