Heart Failure Specialist Nurse

Job overview

Hi, I’m Angela and I am the Clinical Lead for the cardiac service. If you’re looking for a rewarding role that allows you make a positive impact to the lives of patients with heart failure, come and join our team! This job requires a balance of specialist knowledge and compassionate care which makes the role challenging and fulfilling for cardiac nurses.

We are looking for a Cardiac Nurse who has experience in looking after patients with heart failure to join our established and experienced community service. The post holder will work within a highly skilled team to support and manage patients with complex Heart Failure, using evidence-based practice and patient centred goals to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions. 

Do you have a strong team work ethic; excellent communication skills; a committed professional approach to working with both patients and the team; a strong sense of accountability, accompanied by an ability to work under considerable pressure at times? Then we want you! 

In return you will benefit from working with a team of nurses that are highly specialist and knowledgeable, equipping you to develop and progress in a supportive environment. Sound exciting? It is. 

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• To Manage a caseload of patients with complex Heart Failure, using evidence -based practice and patient centred goals to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions
• To work as part of the multidisciplinary team with the aim of preventing admission, supporting effective discharge and providing ongoing care for patients with Chronic Heart Failure within the community
• To provide expert support, advice, and education to raise awareness of the need of the patient with Chronic Heart Failure
• To Undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner with access to advice and support from senior colleagues
• The post holder will be an active team participant within the service and provide in-depth clinical knowledge.

Working for our organisation

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health and social care organisation dedicated to providing high-quality care with compassion to improve the health and wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting and empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services, not only via inpatient and primary care settings, but also within the community. These services include children's, adult and older people's mental health, forensic and specialist mental health, learning disabilities, primary care and liaison psychiatry, substance misuse, social care, research and development.

To achieve our goal, we look to recruit high-calibre candidates who share our vision and values. As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applications from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including people with long term conditions and members of our ethnic minority and LGBTQ+ communities.

Please be advised we reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date should we receive sufficient applications.

Regrettably, we cannot offer sponsorship for all our job roles. If you apply for a role that we cannot offer sponsorship for, unfortunately, your application form will be rejected from the process. 

For further information on CPFT, please visit our website at www.cpft.nhs.uk