Heart Failure Advanced / Specialist Nurse Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for 2/3 Part time/Full time seconded posts until September 2025. Band will be determined by experience and qualifications. Based at the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, a small, friendly, and supportive team which is constantly looking at evolving and refining patient pathways and experience for patients admitted with suspected or known heart failure. Covering the John Radcliffe Monday to Friday. The team has a strong culture of learning together with regular team meetings, MDTs and education sessions.

We are looking for a registered nurse with experience in cardiac nursing and heart failure care. The post holder will support and facilitate the delivery of multidisciplinary care for heart failure patients admitted to the trust. The role will encompass aspects of education, research, and management across the pillars of professional practice, but is firmly grounded in direct clinical care provision or work, with patients', their families and populations., The post holder should have experience of working with cardiology patients either within cardiology or acute general medicine; and will promote and ensure the delivery of, high quality, multidisciplinary, evidence-based care throughout the patient pathway for patients and their families.

Contribute to the professional development of the heart failure service at a local level, providing nursing expertise for patients, families and carers.

Assess patients admitted with confirmed or suspected heart failure, and collaborate with the MDT to advise on investigations and management plan. The post holder will provide information, education, and support to patients and family/carers, and will contribute to audit processes.

Act as a resource for nursing colleagues, contributing toward and providing educational activities in order to ensure the development of effective, evidence based, multidisciplinary practice.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. Find out more here www.ouh.nhs.uk .

The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury.

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community. We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence. These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.