Heart Failure Nurse Specialist

Job summary

Heart Failure Nurse Specialist

Band 7: £46,148 - £52,809 (Pro-rata)

22.5 hours per week

Permanent

Here at Locala we are part of the community and have often cared for generations within the same family and continue to be part of the NHS family also delivering care under the same ethos.

Main duties of the job

An excellent opportunity has arisen for the right candidate to join our Integrated Community Services Business Unit as a Heart Failure Nurse Specialist based at Fartown Health Centre.

Our Heart Failure Nurse Specialist team comprises of experienced specialist nurses, staff nurses and health care assistants. The successful candidate will have an extensive cardiology background and be passionate about providing high standards of care and management for patients diagnosed with chronic heart failure condition.

You will work in the community to support patients living in Huddersfield and also be a part of the wider Locala Kirklees Heart Failure Nurse Specialist service.

Key elements of the role will include:

• Providing management for avoidance of unplanned and unnecessary healthcare access related to heart failure condition
• Using and developing skills to provide specialist heart failure assessment of patients, assisting in the developing of self-management skills for patients and their carers' and care plans for assessing the need for other services including palliative and social care and signposting as appropriate
• The role will incorporate advice and education within the primary and secondary care environment.
• Assisting in delivery of community clinics and home visits as needed
• Prescribing evidence based heart failure within a heart failure formulary to optimise heart failure treatments to improve patient outcomes

About us

Locala Health and Wellbeing embraces diversity and inclusion and encourages applicants from people from all backgrounds with our ambition to have a workforce that represents the wider communities we live and work within, which you can support us to achieve.

We are an organisation that celebrates and values the individuality of our colleagues lived experiences and can adapt accordingly, recognising the value inclusivity brings when delivering equitable, high quality healthcare to our local communities. Where everyone feels valued, has the ability to develop, has flexible working opportunities, with a sense of belonging, supported by our Inclusivity Groups.

Locala is a Disability Confident employer and as such any disabled applicants who meets all the essential criteria are guaranteed to be invited to the assessment process.

Just a few of the benefits you can enjoy:-

• Flexible working-We are committed to supporting our colleagues to have a good work-life balance and welcome conversations about flexible working wherever possible.
• Generous pension We offer a generous, defined contribution, pension scheme with matched contribution + 2% up to a maximum of 8%
• Refer a Friend Scheme -If you know a friend or family member who works at Locala on a substantive contract, you may be able to take advantage of our Refer a Friend Scheme. You both could receive a reward of £500 each, after you have successfully started your role with us.