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Heart Failure Nurse Specialist
The closing date is 04 November 2025
This is an exciting opportunity to join a dynamic and patient-centred heart failure service at Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust. As a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse you will play an important role in improving the diagnosis, management and overall care experience for patients living with heart failure.
You will be working closely with multidisciplinary teams to facilitate smooth inpatient pathways, support early discharge and deliver high-quality nurse-led follow-up in clinic. You will act as a key clinical resource, providing expert advice, education and support to patients, families and healthcare professionals and ensuring care is aligned with national guidance and best practice.
The post also offers the opportunity to contribute to service development and audit, including the National Heart Failure Audit, and to help shape integrated care across hospital and community interfaces. You will also play an important role in supporting advanced care planning for patients with advanced heart failure.
This is an excellent role for an experienced and motivated cardiac nurse who is passionate about delivering high-quality, evidence-based heart failure care and driving service improvement.
Main duties of the job
* To work with health professionals across Princess Alexandra Trust Hospital and all interfaces to improve the awareness and diagnosis of heart failure, and to ensure appropriate systems that underpin good practice are in place.
* To provide care and support to heart failure patients/families/carers in secondary and primary care settings, utilising case management where appropriate.
* To liaise with MDT's, and Heart Failure Teams in Primary Care to ensure a model of care that will provide a comprehensive care package to all heart failure patients in secondary & primary care.
* Complete audit data specifically the National heart Failure Audit.
* To lead in obtaining, interpreting and action upon patient investigations as appropriate and within agreed clinical protocols recognising when and where to seek advice.
* To ensure provision of high quality nurse led follow up both on the ward and in clinic focussing upon information, patient education around prevention, compliance and concordance with current guidance.
* To ensure all patients when admitted or readmitted to the acute Trust are reviewed to ensure that their medications are optimised to reduce the LOS and repatriate home under the supervision of primary care teams.
* To provide care and support to patients through education to optimise their potential and improve and maintain the best possible quality of life.
* To lead and co-ordinate the provision of palliative care support for patients with end stage heart failure
About us
This is an exciting time for the Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust. We are on a digital transformation journey leading us to our brand new hospital.
We believe that our people are our greatest asset. That's why we invest in continuous learning, career development, and personal growth. From nurses to administrators, everyone has a role to play in our success story.
Job responsibilities
Please see the attached Job description and person specification for the full job details. This is available to download at any time.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse
* Post Registration Cardiology Specific Training
* Clinical Assessment Skills Qualification
* Non-medical Prescribing Qualification
Experience
* Minimum of 4 years post registration experience some of which must in a cardiology setting and or primary/acute experience
* Experience in cardiac care
* Experience in heart failure care in either primary or secondary care
* Teaching experience
Skills
* Advanced clinical skills
* Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
* Health Promotion and education skills
* Use of evidence based practice
* ECG interpretation
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum, plus 5% high cost area supplement
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
292-7540090-MED
Job locations
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