Heart Failure Nurse Specialist

Job summary

Our Heart Failure Team have an fantastic opportunity to join its Friendly, supportive group to provide high quality, evidence based, NICE guideline compliant, heart failure care and chest pain by providing high-level clinical assessment; care planning, expert advice, extended intervention and thorough evaluation.

In conjunction with the Cardiac Nurse Specialist Team and the Heart Failure Consultant, you will work autonomously as an advanced practitioner managing patients with heart failure and chest pain, running heart failure and chest pain clinics and managing patients symptoms and referring for appropriated tests.

You will work to streamline the in-hospital pathway for heart failure patients attending A&E and admitted to MAU, be required to develop close links with the emergency department, medical assessment unit and ward staff to ensure that patients with heart failure are correctly identified and that their acute episode is brought to the attention of and managed by the specialist heart failure team, in a timely fashion and work collaboratively with Primary, Secondary and Tertiary care, to further develop care management of heart failure patients and reduce inappropriate referral and unplanned admission.

Main duties of the job

our role will be to dedicate time to being present in the A&E and MAU to identify and 'pull' patients through the hospital system and to visiting hospital wards to identify and 'pull' patients through the hospital system.

You will organise for the heart failure Consultant to review identified patients, undertake planning and coordination for patients to be reviewed in the hospital based Rapid Access HF Clinic, undertake clinic time within the hospital-based Rapid Access HF Clinic including undertaking monitoring and titration of patients' pharmacotherapy and undertake planning and coordination for patients to be reviewed in the community based HF clinic, within 2 weeks post-discharge, in line with best practice that has recently been agreed with commissioners.

You will participate in the weekly heart Failure MDT, dedicate time to coordinating and managing data returns to the trust's internal PAMSBi database as well as to the NICOR HF Audit to support quality improvement and achievement of HF Best Practice Tariff measures and work collaboratively with colleagues within the cardiology and specialist HF team, as well as colleagues across the hospital.

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

Basildon

Basildon

SS16 5NL

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

Basildon

Basildon

SS16 5NL

Employer's website

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

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