Community Heart Failure Nurse Specialist

A full time Band 7 Community Heart Failure Nurse Specialist (HFNS) role with a highly functioning and well supported Community Heart Failure Service has arisen. We cover the multi-cultural and vibrant borough of Camden and aim to provide quality care for patients in their own homes or in a clinical setting.

The ideal candidate must be committed to supporting people with a diagnosis of Heart Failure as part of our wider Long Term Conditions Service. You will join our nurse-led team, working in partnership with local hospital acute trusts, other community services, and primary care services across Camden., The main role will be optimisation of guideline-directed medical therapies in line with current NICE guidance (Chronic Heart Failure), fluid management and care of patients in a clinic setting or in their own homes. We promote self-management of symptoms and education on what to do should symptoms arise.,

• Keeping the people who use our services as safe as possible through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments


• Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence based policies and procedures


• Ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people throughout the care planning process
  
  You should have a broad cardiology knowledge base including excellent assessment skills and treatment of people with heart failure.


The successful candidate will have excellent communication skills, will have their own caseload and be able to work autonomously and as part of a team. Professional supervision will be provided from an experienced heart failure nurse specialist and/or cardiology heart failure consultants.

The post holder will have the opportunity to work with a wide variety of community and secondary care teams, aimed at reducing unscheduled hospital admissions and improving quality of life for people with heart failure.

All Band 7 nurses working for Central and North West London Foundation Trust are expected to be kind, responsive but professional, informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by