Heart Failure Nurse

Job summary

We are seeking an experienced and motivated Band 7 Community Heart Failure Nurse to join our Oxfordshire team on a 12-month fixed-term basis. This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred care to individuals living with heart failure in their own homes and community settings.

The post holder will work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide specialist assessment, diagnosis support, treatment optimisation, and ongoing management of patients with heart failure. You will contribute to reducing hospital admissions, improving quality of life, and supporting patients and their carers through education and self-management strategies.

The role involves close collaboration with GPs, cardiologists, community teams, and acute services to ensure seamless, coordinated care across the patient pathway. You will also support service development, clinical audit, and quality improvement initiatives to enhance outcomes for patients with heart failure.

This position is ideal for a nurse with significant cardiology or heart failure experience who is confident in clinical decision-making, medication titration, and delivering care in community settings.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver specialist heart failure care in community settings, including home visits and clinic-based reviews, for patients with confirmed heart failure.
• Undertake comprehensive clinical assessments, including history taking, physical examination, and interpretation of relevant investigations (e.g. blood tests, ECGs, echocardiogram reports).
• Initiate, titrate, and optimise guideline-directed medical therapy for heart failure in line with local and national protocols, using independent prescribing skills where appropriate.
• Monitor patients' clinical status, response to treatment, and disease progression, adjusting management plans to reduce risk of deterioration and hospital admission.
• Provide expert education and support to patients, families, and carers to promote self-management, including advice on medication adherence, symptom recognition, fluid management, and lifestyle modification.
• Deliver and support advance care planning, and provide palliative and end-of-life care for patients with advanced heart failure, working closely with patients, families, and specialist palliative care services to ensure care is aligned with patient wishes.
• Work collaboratively with GPs, cardiologists, community teams, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals to coordinate care and ensure timely escalation when required.
• Contribute to service development, including audit, quality improvement initiatives, and implementation of evidence-based practice.

About us

Oxford Health is a great place to work and to be able to showcase the best of yourself when making an application please read the "candidate guide to making an application" and ensure your supporting statement is tailored to the role you are applying for and addresses any essential criteria.

As a Trust we provide physical, mental health and social care for people of all ages across Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Swindon, Wiltshire, Bath and Northeast Somerset. Our services are delivered at community bases, hospitals, clinics and people's homes, delivering care as close to home as possible. Our vision is that no matter who you are or where you are, you will tell us that you receive: "Outstanding care delivered by an outstanding team"

Our values are: "Caring, safe and excellent"

We offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your career and wellbeing. These include:

o Excellent opportunities for career progressiono Access to tailored individual and Trust wide learning and developmento 27 days annual leave, plus bank holidays, rising to 33 days with continuous serviceo NHS Discount across a wide range of shops, restaurants and retailerso Competitive pension schemeo Lease car schemeo Cycle to work schemeo Employee Assistance Programmeo Mental Health First Aiderso Staff accommodation (please note waiting lists apply)o Staff networking and support groups hosted by our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion team

Employer details

Employer name

Oxford Health NHS Trust

Address

Countywide, Oxfordshire

Banbury

OX16 2EZ

Employer's website

https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxford Health NHS Trust

Address

Countywide, Oxfordshire

Banbury

OX16 2EZ

Employer's website

https://www.oxfordhealth.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

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