Heart Failure Specialist Practitioner

Job summary

Due to expansion and promotions within our service we now have a vacancy for a Heart Failure Specialist Practitioner

Come and join our wonderful heart failure team!

Our heart failure service is looking for a highly motivated practitioner (nurse or AHP) to join our very enthusiastic and busy team; either Band 7 (if all criteria met) or Band 6 (as a training post).

We are a proactive, integrated team that works across Acute and Community settings.

We also have an integrated, tele-health team, using technology (telehealth), to support patients and have a dedicated Ambulatory heart Failure unit delivering parenteral diuretics and Iron therapy for heart failure patients.

Main duties of the job

This post is multi-faceted and involves working predominately within the Royal Derby Hospital. However, we also involve cover the community (home visits/clinics) patients at times.

Within the acute trust, you will be reviewing patients who have been admitted to hospital with heart failure symptoms. Working within the virtual ward, ambulatory service and in-reaching to hospital wards

We aim to prevent avoidable admissions and support patients admitted with heart failure and support early discharges.

You will also be working within the Ambulatory HF unit is where we deliver our IV therapies (iron and diuretics).

In the community, you will manage a caseload of complex heart failure patients - this includes managing acute decompensations and optimising therapies.

We work closely with the cardiac physiologists for device management and have weekly MDT's with the heart failure cardiologists at Royal Derby Hospital.

We also link in with other specialities for MDT's so apart from working closely with the cardiologists and physiologists we work closely with the respiratory, renal, palliative care and endocrine teams to support patient care.

If you consider yourself to be dynamic, enthusiastic, dedicated and able to work on your own initiative but as part of a team, then please do apply.

We look forward to welcoming you to our team

The service operates over 7 days. This includes BH and weekends.

About us

Derbyshire Community Health Services has been rated as an outstanding trust by the Care Quality Commission; we have achieved this by providing high quality patient care within an inclusive organisation that works together and shows care and compassion for each other.

There has never been a more exciting time to join us as one of the largest specialist community NHS providers in the country one that is also among the very best NHS employers as voted by its own staff and by CQC.

The way the NHS works is changing; care outside of traditional hospital settings is quickly becoming a much larger part of what the NHS does.

As a leading community provider we are at the forefront of this exciting future, joining-up services in local communities to better meet the individual needs of our patients.

DCHS is a top performing NHS Trust that strives for innovation and improvement for the service and individuals that work within it