Cardiac Nurse Specialist - Heart Failure

Job summary

Our Cardiology Heart failure Service has opportunities for 2 Clinical Nurse Specialists to join its exciting, supportive Team either on a full time or part time basis.

In your role you will carry continuing responsibility for the provision of a specialist service, which provides high standards of evidence based care to patients admitted with a cardiac diagnosis and help reduce length of stay in hospital by ensuring patients follow the correct pathway of care.

Your role is a nurse led focus on in- patients with AF/HF diagnosis including the development of clinical practice, developing and delivering national and local priorities, education and training, and audit.

You will be empowered to make high level clinical decisions and be responsible for providing clinical advice and support to, and liaising collaboratively, with all areas of the multi-disciplinary team, together with patients and their families.

Main duties of the job

Your role is to promote excellent practice trust-wide in the assessment, diagnosis and management of cardiac patients using agreed policies and guidelines/pathways of care and acting as a liaison between the Acute Medical Team, Cardiologists, Nurses and MDT ensuring timely review of cardiac patients, especially those with HF, including advice and requesting of specific tests and appointments.

You will practice autonomously as a core member of the cardiac team and wider multi-disciplinary team, continually evaluating the quality of patient care and be one of the lead nurses for those patients with a diagnosis of HF.

About us

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is now one of the largest in the country, with a workforce of approximately 15,000 who serve a population of 1.2 million people.

We work together, and in conjunction with MSE Health and Care Partnership, to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and wellbeing of our patients in a compassionate way, and provide a respectful, but vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

From facilities through to consultant specialists we want to be the best, to achieve this we need to recruit not just those who are the finest in their field but also those who have the potential to be. Yes, experience is important but so is outlook - if you are dynamic, forward-thinking and enthusiastic we want you to join us.

We not only offer you a good working environment with flexible working opportunities, but also the opportunity to develop your career with access to appropriate training for your job and the support to succeed and progress.

Employer details

Employer name

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Broomfield

chelmsford

CM1 7ET

Employer's website

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

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Employer details

Employer name

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Broomfield

chelmsford

CM1 7ET

Employer's website

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

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