Heart Failure Clinical Nurse Specialist

2 weeks ago

Edmonton, Greater London, United Kingdom North Middlesex University Hospital Full time

Job overview

We are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Cardiology Nurse with a keen interest in heart failure to join the heart failure team at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust.

You will join a dynamic team, caring for patients across the in-patient/outpatient pathway supporting patients within the hospital setting and to transition home ensuring seamless pathway of care.

We are looking for an enthusiastic, pro-active, self-motivated nurse to join the team who is comfortable working autonomously and within the wider multidisciplinary team particular with excellent communication skills. You will also value team player qualities and who is highly organized and experienced in auditing of processes to support our patients gain a positive experience.

The Cardiology team is friendly and dedicated, committed to improving services for our patients. There is a strong emphasis on team support and development, with opportunities to expand your clinical knowledge, skills and managerial/leadership experience.

If you are interested in joining our team, please call to discuss with Bibi Ford, Lead Nurse for Cardiology on or or to arrange for informal visit

Main duties of the job

Duties will include: assessing patients acutely admitted within the Trust, as well as acting as an autonomous practitioner in outpatient clinics supporting patients and families referred to our service providing communication, counseling, smooth running of clinics and linking the pathway of care amongst different parts of the team, the hospital and community, helping to ensure a seamless pathway of care. You will be expected to support patients to engage and uptake the cardiac rehabilitation programme. Part of the role will include submitting data for the National Heart failure Audit.

Working for our organisation

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will have the responsibility for assessment; planning, development, implementation and evaluation of individual programs of client care within Adult Heart Failure Service. You will manage the health care of complex and vulnerable individuals with diagnosed heart failure (NYHA 1-IV) referred to the service.

You will assist and deliver in the coordination of the inpatient heart failure INreach service, participating in heart failure consultant rounds and fulfilling the National Heart Failure Audit requirements. You will autonomously be expected to review patients with heart failure admitted to North Middlesex Hospital NHS Trust (NMUH) using enhanced clinical skills following an appropriate referral and/or through actively monitoring for admissions of patients with suspected heart failure.

A key aspect of role is re-admission prevention management including reviewing patients within 2 weeks of discharge from hospital; undertaking comprehensive assessment, physical examination and appropriately treat patients; referring when necessary to other health care professionals or services.

You will screen patients who are at risk of deterioration and early signs of heart failure decompensation and respond to changes in patient's clinical status appropriately.

You will manage own caseload in clinics delivering individualised care, initiating and titrating medications and facilitating lifestyle changes through education and support to patients, carers and other health professionals.

You will be expected to be involved in the development and sustaining of cardiac rehabilitation service for heart failure patients.

You will utilise expertise in research based heart failure practice, use critical appraisal skills to expand and inform daily clinical practice.

You will be expected to routinely undertake independent Nurse Prescribing while complying with NMC code of Conduct to undertake responsibility for prescribing with locally agreed protocols and national guidelines.

You will support the Lead nurse to set, monitor and evaluate standards of heart failure practice to ensure quality and effective governance for the service in accordance with NICE guidance and assist

in the on-going development and innovation of the NMUH Heart Failure Service as dictated by demand and changes in service delivery.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Registered Nurse (RGN) Non-Medical Prescribing Qualification - (V300) or willing to undertake Clinical examination /assessment qualification or willing to undertake Evidence of on-going training and development.

Desirable criteria

-Post graduate qualification in Heart Failure or related field (willing to complete)

Knowledge/experience

Essential criteria

Extensive, in-depth specialist knowledge and experience within heart failure management Proven knowledge of Heart Failure National and Local Guidance (NICE guidelines and DOH). Effective written and oral communication and liaison skills

Desirable criteria

Presentation skills/ability to deliver training Experience in palliative Care

Trust Values

Essential criteria

Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values

We reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once a sufficient number of applications have been received.

You will only be contacted by the Recruitment Team via email if you are shortlisted for this post. Please ensure therefore that you check your e-mail account regularly.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, (NLPSS) who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of NMUH.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a "selfie" using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit

NMUH uses identification scanning technology to confirm the authenticity of documents; all prospective employees of NMUH will have their original documents verified using this technology.

By applying for this post you are agreeing to NMUH transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. All subsequent information regarding your application will be generated from You will not be able to track the progress of your application or receive messages through the NHS Jobs website, and as an employer, we will not be able to respond to any e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record (ESR) system and other secure, internal NHS workforce systems.

By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers. Therefore we want you to complete your e-learning modules prior to joining our organisation.

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