A Vacancy at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust.
Are you looking for a new and exciting career move? Are you a highly motivated individual, passionate about delivering the very best in evidence based practice? Can you work autonomously, but also be a committed team member, have you an interest in Cardiac care, then this may be for you.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a secondment to cover Maternity leave as a Specialist Heart Failure Nurse based at FGH.
You will play an active part in clinical practice, education, research/audit and the implementation of national guidelines and be required to make quality improvements in the provision of heart failure. Applicants for this post are invited from registered nurses who are enthusiastic, motivated and have excellent communication skills. Some cardiac experience would be an advantage but is not essential.
* The role will be to work within the cardiology team to assist with the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of individualised care as per evidence based national and local guidelines (ESC 2021, NICE 2025 and Trust).
* The successful person will learn how to rule out heart failure in collaboration with cardiology specialist nurses and medical colleagues.
* You will learn in conjunction with the cardiologist, the cardiac nurses and the community heart failure nurses to work within the rapidly growing heart failure Service.
* You will need to have good communication and interaction skills to provide specialist advice to patients, carers and relatives.
* Clinical supervision will be provided where necessary.
* The role will involve data collection for the national data base for HF NICOR (nicor.or.uk).
* You will be required to make safe, timely arrangements for monitoring for example renal blood testing, analysis and follow up appointments.
* You will learn skills in heart failure assessment and management to assist with regular reviews of inpatients which will enable recognition of their improvement or deterioration. The aim would be to promote safe discharge when optimised or to an escalated medical review if patient continues to decompensate.
* You will be able to act as a signpost to other multi disciplines to ensure patients needs and best interests are met.
We operate from three main hospitals - Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.
FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.
WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.
All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.
This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Apr 2026.
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