Clinical Nurse Specialist Heart Failure

Job summary

The heart failure nursing service is looking for an enthusiastic, forward thinking nurse to join our inpatient and outpatient heart failure service. We are a team of nurses that cover the whole of Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and you would be required to travel between sites. The service currently provides a mix of face to face and virtual assessments and we work closely with cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation services.

The service has a strong patient centred approach where we embed Patient Reported outcomes into care and endeavour to offer a value based service.

It is a fast paced environment that requires an individual to be able to work as part of a team but also be able to make independent decisions. As a service we embrace change and welcome new ideas and thoughts, and would be looking for these qualities in an individual.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

Draw on advanced highly specialist knowledge and exercise professional skills of the highest standard to act as an autonomous practitioner to investigate, assess, plan and provide highly specialised advanced care and management for patients with heart failure.

This will require the ability to make critical judgements and decision making in areas where precedents may not exist

About us

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. This includes the Grange University Hospital which provides specialist and critical care and is the newest addition to the clinical futures strategy opening in November 2020. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.