Heart Failure Specialist Nurse

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 7 Heart Failure Specialist Nurse to join our community based service. We are looking for a dynamic, highly trained nurse to join our well established service that covers Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

Our community based specialist service works to improve outcomes for patients living with heart failure. By working as part of a wider MDT we strive to deliver best evidence pharmacological and holistic care that is individualised for our patients. We work to reduce hospital admissions and associated costs, improve quality of care, quality of life and the patient experience. We support people with heart failure to self manage their condition and bridge the interface between primary and secondary care.

We are seeking to appoint a specialist nurse to work around the Market Harborough area, although movement within Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland will be required.

You will see patients in community based clinics and in their own homes and therefore a full UK driving licence is essential.

We are a 7 day service that covers a virtual ward at the weekend.

You will actively participate in the development of the service and take responsibility for supporting and teaching other staff., Work as the Specialist Nurse within a locality within the Long Term Conditions Team, liaising with all health care professionals across organisational boundaries for the benefit of the patient and be responsible for the management of care and service provision for a disease specific pathway within the locality.

Proactively deliver and manage a case management service in a community setting, to a defined population of patients on a locality caseload, working with other health care professionals.

To recognise and respond to the early symptoms of disease exacerbation and acute illness based on the understanding of the chronic disease, the disease process, including current evidence and practice standards.

Providing care closer to home and preventing inappropriate hospital admissions.

To deliver pharmacological expertise to ensure patients receive best evidence based medication.

Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serve over 1 million people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.

We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our community. We actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups.

Details of our benefits, leadership behaviours and other important information can be found in the Information for Applicants, please view the supporting documents.

We will consider requests to work alternative hours or varied working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.

For all substantive roles, new staff (excluding medical staff) are appointed subject to a 6-month probationary period (see Probation Policy).

All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.

For all jobs the cost of any DBS disclosure required will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary once started.