Heart Failure Specialist Nurse Team Leader

Job description

Job responsibilities

Lead on the day-to-day clinical coordination of the Heart Failure Service managing referrals, patient flow, and escalation plans.

Deputise for the Cardiac Rehabilitation lead, including chairing meetings, coordinating team activities, and managing service priorities.

Operational oversight of the Heart Failure Service / virtual Ward, including patient triage, allocation of visits, and ensuring timely clinical interventions.

Act as a key liaison between hospital and community teams to support seamless transfers of care into and out of the virtual ward.

Contribute to strategic planning and service development, including business cases, pathway redesign, and integration with PCNs and ICB priorities.

Ensure safe and effective remote monitoring of patients using digital platforms, physiological monitoring tools, and structured clinical reviews.

Act as the clinical point of contact for primary care, acute trusts, and urgent care services referring to or discharging from the virtual ward.

Participate in data collection and evaluation of virtual ward outcomes and innovations. To be responsible for ensuring that the induction process of new staff to the service area takes place.

Monitor rate of readmission, identifying any trends and working within the multidisciplinary team to address these

Work with all members of the multidisciplinary team to develop practice, research and audit.

Work within the framework of clinical governance, work continuously to improve quality and safeguard standards of care, maintaining a patient focused service, promoting and

implementing evidence-based practice with measurable standards of care and outcomes.

Be involved in audit projects to measure standards of care. To identify and highlight any

gaps in the evidence/service provision for Heart Failure patients.

Critically examine working practices within the department to identify cost improvements and effective measures, develop and implement action plans

Understand the commissioning of services and any income generation from new work or changes in service that may affect income

Understand the procurement of services in terms of service development initiatives, lead the team through service changes.

To participate and lead in the writing of departmental guidelines and implement Trust wide/departmental policies, procedures and guidelines.

Maintain, advance and develop personal theoretical knowledge, high standards of clinical competence and professional development through on-going self-education and attendance at relevant courses of study.

Develop and maintain a peer network of support, information and learning with other nurse specialists at a local and National level.

Maintain own professional portfolio.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

Essential

• Registered General Nurse
• Non-Medical Prescribing
• Teaching, Assessment, Mentoring qualification
• Recognised management or leadership qualification, willing to undertake
• MSc or Willingness to work towards Masters level degree (Cardiology related)

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

Essential

• Currently working as an autonomous practitioner in advanced practice
• Working knowledge and clinical management of patients specific to role
• Service development and or change management
• Evidence of experience in nurse led triage including telephone triage
• Substantial post-registration experience within cardiology specialty.
• Leadership, Influencing and negotiation skills
• Wide-ranging in-depth knowledge of clinical issues in heart failure / cardiology
• Advises on the prescription of medicines and adjusts drug dosages within scope of NMPs

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES

Essential

• Good organisational and time management skills
• Knowledge of change management.
• Awareness of professional issues and vision for HF services.
• Willingness to work flexible shifts to deliver the service
• Able to work independently and as part of a team, receptive and responsive to change.
• Understanding of Clinical Governance and Health & Safety issues.
• Demonstrates knowledge in relation to benchmarking and peer review

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Dean Clough, NHS Community Healthcare

4th Floor, Bowling Mill , Dean Clough Mills

Halifax

HX35AQ

Employer's website

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