Virtual Ward Heart Failure Nurse | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced nurse to join theVirtual Ward at North Middlesex University Hospital. You will visit patients in the community, and also manage appropriate patients with remote monitoring devices. You will work predominately for Virtual ward with on a joint pathway of care with the Cardiology Consultant at the North Middlesex University Hospital and Lead Heart Failure Nurse for Enfield Community Services. We are planning to set up a consultant supervised home IV furosemide service and your role will be key to implementing this. Experience of managing IV diuretics and complications of therapy, either as inpatient or outpatient, would be ideal. We also have a daily Heart Failure MDT to discuss case management. As Urgent Care Response (UCR) comprises of Virtual Wards and Rapid Response, you will be required to give advice as required to patients receiving Rapid Response care. You will be working within a multi-disciplinary team and the voluntary care sector to support people who are at risk of admissions to hospital or being facilitated with transfer home under the care of the Virtual Ward. As a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse in Virtual Ward, you will provide specialist nursing care for patients living with Heart Failure (HF). You will manage virtual ward patients, reviewing patients at home, by visits or remote monitoring by to ensure optimal medical therapy, promoting self-care strategies and onward referrals to teams such as cardiac rehabilitation and palliative care. You will share enthusiasm and expertise in HF clinical nursing skills to peers and community carers and work closely to implement management plans with other members of the community team including cardiologists and HF Consultants at North Middlesex University Hospital/Royal Free Hospital and general practitioners. We would welcome and support you to care for our patients., NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London's busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients' wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link:https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/ Main duties:

• You will hold responsibility for own caseload within this specialty, working without direct supervision.
• You will have access to advice and support from peers, both internally and externally to the Trust, and from the nurse lead and service manager as required.
• You are required to undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
• To be aware of and manage any clinical governance issues pertaining to own service and to highlight these to nurse consultant
• To delegate supervision where appropriate and supervise junior staff members within the service.
• To assist and support service lead in implementation of specific changes to practice or service protocols in order to improve quality of care to patients.
• Assist and support audit, evaluation and research projects, co-coordinating their implementation to further own and team's performance
• To contribute to the delivery of health promotion activities within the service and wider Trust initiatives
• To assist as required in recruitment, selection, CPD, discipline and staff development within own service.
• To supervise/mentor student placements within the service.
• To deal with complaints and act as Trust investigator following appropriate training
• Liaise with other agencies in order to deliver and develop more effective Heart Failure service to the community
• To act as deputy in the absence to the nurse lead for service
  
  The ideal candidate would be an Independent Prescriber who is experienced in cardiology, however, if you do not meet the full personal specification, we would certainly consider your application for a band 6 developmental role if you have other relevant experience that may be advantageous in this role.