Job summary
East Coast Community Healthcare are expanding our community Heart Failure team, recognising the increasing prevalence of Heart Failure within our communities. To work along side the Specialist Lead of the team we are recruiting Band 6 specialist nurses. If you have experience of nursing within a cardiology setting and an interest in Heart Failure, you may be the right person for this post.
ECCH Heart Failure team support patients in the community to understand and manage their condition. Patient assessments and reviews are completed virtually, in clinics or in patients homes if unable to attend one of the clinics. You will have a caseload of patients to manage, with support and supervision from senior specialist nurses. The team works closely with Primary and Secondary Care, ensuring high quality care for our communities.
Applications are welcomed from people with no previous community experience, full support will be provided to ensure you successfully adapt to community working.
Full or part time hours are available.
Informal visits are encouraged, please contact Nicola.macnamee@ecchcic.nhs.uk or 0798076940 to arrange.
Main duties of the job
To co-ordinate and provide skilled holistic nursing care to patients diagnosed with heart failure.
To work collaboratively with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to promote heart failure.
To work autonomously at a level appropriate to clinical competence and within the scope of professional practice.
To provide professional support within the heart failure team across ECCH.
To provide specialist training sessions for staff across ECCH and all external stakeholders.
To develop links between key partners, GP practices, care homes, acute trusts and specialist services within and outside of ECCH.
To support the lead nurse with continuous evaluation of the service to ensure it is fit for purpose and increases access and choice.
About us
ECCH is a well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders.
We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.
At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.
We encourage you to apply as early as possible as this job may close earlier than the advertised closing date once enough applications have been received.
The Heart Failure team is expanding, recognising the increased prevalence of Heart Failure within our communities, to ensure the team is resilient and able to meet the needs of the local communities.
Applications are welcomed from clinicians with an acute nursing background as well as experienced community staff. If you have an interest in Heart Failure and this advert has piqued your interest please contact us if you wish to discuss further, we look forward to reviewing your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Expert advice to patients, colleagues
and healthcare partners
Specialist patient management
Research and audit
Education and Training
Management and clinical leadership of
the team / Deputise for Lead Specialist nurse
All roles
within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our
Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to
patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff
should consider these as an essential part of their job role.
Our Values outline the core behaviours that we
can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word CARE. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.
Underpinning our Values are our Signature
Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a
strong culture. Our four Signature
Behaviours are: Compassion
- We Listen, We Learn,
We Lead| Action - My
Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect
Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Expert advice to patients, colleagues
and healthcare partners
Specialist patient management
Research and audit
Education and Training
Management and clinical leadership of
the team / Deputise for Lead Specialist nurse
All roles
within East Coast Community Healthcare CIC (ECCH) require staff to demonstrate our
Values and Signature Behaviours in the care and service they provide to
patients, service users, stakeholders and colleagues. All members of staff
should consider these as an essential part of their job role.
Our Values outline the core behaviours that we
can all achieve and are summarised as an acronym within the word CARE. These stand for: Compassion, Action, Respect and Everyone.
Underpinning our Values are our Signature
Behaviours which highlight by taking the right actions we continue to build a
strong culture. Our four Signature
Behaviours are: Compassion
- We Listen, We Learn,
We Lead| Action - My
Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect
Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience of working with people with cardiac disease.
- Relevant experience of working at Band 5/6
- Experience of clinical audit
Desirable
- Community experience.
- Experience of working in a cardiac specialist area
- Experience of successfully managing change
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to demonstrate a good knowledge/understanding of heart failure.
- Sound clinical base.
- Good time management.
- Eagerness to put forward new ideas.
- Willingness to undertake group teaching
- Assessment and patient management skills
- Excellent inter-personal skills
- Negotiating and influencing skills
- Computer literate
Desirable
- Health Coaching skills
- Proven leadership skills
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Degree or Diploma.
- Degree level Heart Failure Course or willingness to undertake.
Desirable
- Leadership/ qualification or willing to undertake
- Community Practitioner Prescriber/Independent non-medical prescriber or willingness to undertake.
- Mentorship Qualification.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Flexible.
- Dependable.
- Motivated.
- Ability to work with a small team.
- Keen interest in cardiac nursing.
- Able to use own initiative.
- Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours:
- (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together).
- Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required.
Desirable
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Proven experience of working with people with cardiac disease.
- Relevant experience of working at Band 5/6
- Experience of clinical audit
Desirable
- Community experience.
- Experience of working in a cardiac specialist area
- Experience of successfully managing change
Skills and Knowledge
Essential
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Ability to demonstrate a good knowledge/understanding of heart failure.
- Sound clinical base.
- Good time management.
- Eagerness to put forward new ideas.
- Willingness to undertake group teaching
- Assessment and patient management skills
- Excellent inter-personal skills
- Negotiating and influencing skills
- Computer literate
Desirable
- Health Coaching skills
- Proven leadership skills
Qualifications
Essential
- Registered Nurse
- Degree or Diploma.
- Degree level Heart Failure Course or willingness to undertake.
Desirable
- Leadership/ qualification or willing to undertake
- Community Practitioner Prescriber/Independent non-medical prescriber or willingness to undertake.
- Mentorship Qualification.
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Flexible.
- Dependable.
- Motivated.
- Ability to work with a small team.
- Keen interest in cardiac nursing.
- Able to use own initiative.
- Ability to embrace our Culture, Values and Signature Behaviours:
- (Compassion - We Listen, We Learn, We Lead| Action - My Accountability, My Responsibility | Respect - Respect Our Resources: People, Time and Money | Everyone - Work Together, Achieve Together).
- Willingness and ability to work across different sites and travel to alternative sites and across the community as required.
Desirable
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
