Heart Failure Specialist Nurse

Job summary

Sutton Health and Care are firmly committed to providing the best possible care for residents across Sutton including those with long term conditions, such as heart failure and as such we have an exciting opportunity to recruit to a Band 7 heart failure specialist nurse for Sutton's heart failure- cardiology Team.

This post holder will be responsible for managing a caseload of patients with heart failure, both newly diagnosed and following their discharge from hospital. This will involve liaising with other members of the heart failure team including hospital consultants and GPs along the cardiac pathway from hospital to home, secondary to primary care to deliver evidence-based care to patients with heart failure.

The post holder will have the opportunity to work autonomously, but in close contact with, a number of partners in primary, secondary and social care as well as voluntary agencies.

As part of the new NHS plan the agenda for preventive working and in particularly with a focus on long term conditions, is truly exciting and the post holder will therefore be involved in the transformative neighbourhood work of the cardiology pathway from hospital to home.

We are looking to recruit a full-time permanent nurse to join our friendly, established, Cardiology team.

You will be an experienced nurse, who enjoys a challenge, and who has good communication skills, excellent clinical skills and is able to work with a high level of autonomy.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:be responsible for managing a caseload of patients with heart failure,both newly diagnosed and following discharge from hospitalliaise with other members of the heart failure management team inprimary and secondary care to deliver evidence-based care to patientswith heart failureco-ordinate an education programme for community healthprofessionals and will also be a resource for advicework collaboratively within multi-disciplinary teams and in partnershipwith other services to provide seamless carework as part of the team and contribute to its success by being aneffective role model and supervising other staff i.e. nurses, healthcareassistants/support workers and students to ensure they are working tothe standards that the people using our services deserve

About us

St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey.Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

At gesh we are committed to supporting flexible working arrangements. Applicants are encouraged to discuss any flexibility they may need during the recruitment process.