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Clinical Nurse Specialist - Heart Failure
The closing date is 03 September 2025
Clinical Nurse Specialist - Heart Failure
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated professional to join our dedicated Heart Failure team as a Clinical Nurse Specialist. In this pivotal role, you will have ongoing responsibility for delivering a high-quality, evidence-based service for patients admitted with heart failure, ensuring they follow the right care pathway and helping to reduce hospital length of stay.
You will play a key part in shaping clinical practice, delivering both national and local priorities, and leading education, training, and audit initiatives. Empowered to make advanced clinical decisions, you'll provide expert advice and support to colleagues, working closely with the multi-disciplinary team to ensure the best possible outcomes for patients.
Collaboration is at the heart of this role -- you'll work in partnership with patients, their families, and healthcare professionals across all areas, ensuring a seamless, compassionate, and effective service.
If you're passionate about driving service excellence in heart failure care and have the skills to inspire and influence at all levels, we'd love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
* Promote excellent practice trust-wide in the assessment, diagnosis and management of patients who develop, or are admitted with HF, practising autonomy as a core member of the cardiac team and wider MDT to reduce Length of Stay.
* Act as a liaison between the Acute Medical Team, Cardiologists, Nurses and MDT ensuring timely review of HF patients, including advice, and requesting of specific tests and appointments.
* Participate in setting up and running nurse led HF clinics.
* Prescribe appropriate medications as a non-medical prescriber, and adjust/advise on treatment changes, continually evaluating the quality of patients care.
About us
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.
Job responsibilities
For more information on this varied and rewarding role, please see the attached job description and person specification.
We look forward to your application!
Please note that this is a 12-month Secondment/Fixed Term opportunity, with an end date of 1st October 2026.
Please be aware that we reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should a high number of applications be received.
Person Specification
Experience
* Significant experience in Specialist Cardiac Area at Band 6
Qualifications
* BSc Nursing
* Qualified Non-Medical Prescriber
* Full NMC Registration
* Specialist Cardiac courses or equivalent
* MSc Advanced Nursing Practice
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.
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
£47,810 a yearPer Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)
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