Job overview
PLEASE NOTE THAT WE WILL ONLY ACCEPT APPLICATIONS FROM STAFF CURRENTLY EMPLOYED BY SWANSEA BAY UNIVERSITY HEALTH BOARD.
An opportunity has arisen for a motivated, enthusiastic Band 7 Registered Nurse within the Community Heart Failure Service. The successful candidate will work in a variety of health care settings; GP Clusters, different hospital & community sites, Primary Care & patients’ home to deliver specialist heart failure care to people with heart failure, across the Health Board.
The Service operates in a dynamic, challenging environment with learning opportunities to learn & work with multi-disciplinary colleagues passionate about providing evidenced based best practice to our patient group. You will need to work autonomously and as part of a team, with excellent communication skills & demonstrate the Health Board Values. You will need the ability to make advanced clinical decisions in a safe & competent manner.
The role requires a flexible approach to work, with commitment and ability to prioritise your workload. You will work with health care professionals across care boundaries and closely with the Clinical Nurse Specialists, General Practitioners & Consultant Cardiologists. You will have access to study/training opportunities to complement the clinical environment and enhance your skills.
You will require leadership skills & ability to manage staff, undertaking line management duties when required. You will be able to share your heart failure expertise through teaching colleagues as well as providing patient/carer education.
Main duties of the job
Responsible for the direct delivery of clinical care & be clinically competent to act as an independent clinician for heart failure patients.
This will involve autonomous clinical decision-making, planning highly specialist programmes of care.
Independently manage patients with heart failure & refer on to primary & secondary care colleagues including Virtual Wards.
To provide expert clinical information, support & advice to patients, carer’s & the wider multidisciplinary team to promote streamlined, effective, patient focused care.
The post holder will be responsible for undertaking specific interventions & procedures, safely & effectively as part of the MDT.
To deliver heart failure clinics in the community setting, including home visits and/ or telephone follow-up.
Maintain highly developed clinical skills, which require accuracy e.g. undertaking phlebotomy & ECG’s with interpretation.
Work towards training as a non-medical Independent Prescriber; in meantime, recommend the prescription of evidence-based medicines within appropriate scope of professional practice supported by the heart failure Lead Specialist Nurse & HF Cardiology MDT.
As a qualified non-medical Independent Prescriber, recommend and/or recommend the prescription of evidence-based medicines within appropriate scope of practice supported by DSMP, adhering to SBUHB prescribing policy and guidelines.
Working for our organisation
We believe staff are our best asset and we want you to be happy and confident about starting your career here in Swansea Bay University Health Board.
As one of the biggest healthcare groups in the UK we can offer a wealth of professional training and development opportunities in an innovative, forward-thinking organisation.
You might be a nurse or doctor, maybe you specialise in a health science/therapy or can offer skills in one of our support services - we have a job for you.
There are also apprenticeships, work placements and volunteering roles available.
We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from everyone whatever their sex; religion or belief; race; age; sexual orientation; gender identity or, whether they are pregnant or have recently been on maternity leave, married or are in a civil partnership; or, whether they are disabled.
Our values - Caring For Each Other, Working Together and Always Improving, show that our commitment to equality is at the heart of everything we do.
If you want excellent career and training opportunities while living on the doorstep of some of Europe's most spectacular scenery, with all the benefits of a thriving and cosmopolitan city - look no further.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Person specification
Essential Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential criteria
1. Level 1 Registered Nurse with current NMC registration
2. Education to Degree Level
3. Post basic qualification in cardiology or heart failure
4. Educated to Masters level or able to demonstrate equivalent level of knowledge, skills and experience
Desirable criteria
5. Qualification in heart failure palliative care & advanced communication skills
6. Clinical assessment & examination award
7. Advanced life support trained
Essential Experience
Essential criteria
8. Demonstrate enhanced & detailed understanding of heart failure.
9. Clinical/professional development.
10. Significant experience as a qualified nurse including working in acute cardiology and acute medicine enviroments or experience of working with cardiology patients in community or primary care settings.
11. Undertake heart failure clinical assessment & examination,including recording & interpreting 12 lead ECGs, blood test results, in particular renal function & NTproBNP bloods tests & act on findings, utilising advanced clinical descision making.
12. I.T. Skills & proficient use of computer programmes & databases.
13. Awareness and willingness to undertake audit within the department.
Desirable criteria
14. Undertaken Leadership training.
15. Undertaking clinical assessment & examination
16. Undertaken PADRs & Revalidation process of colleagues
Essential Aptitude and abilities
Essential criteria
17. Adhere to and can demonstrate SBU Values & Behaviours
18. Excellent interpersonal skills
19. Evidence of undertaking presentation to groups & deliver teaching to health care professions, patients and carers
20. Work alone & as part of a multidisciplinary team
21. Work across organisational & professional boundaries
22. Understanding of the wider NHS and Health Board agenda
23. Demonstrates understanding of Clinical Governance
Desirable criteria
24. Welsh Language Skills are desirable levels 1 to 5 in understanding, speaking, reading, and writing in Welsh
Other Essential Criteria
Essential criteria
25. Ability to travel within geographical area
26. Able to work hours flexibly to meet needs of the service
Swansea Bay University Health Board is committed to supporting its staff and processes to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing service users experience. In our commitment to increase the number of staff able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we would particularly welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
Equality remains at the centre of the Health Boards policy-making, service delivery and employment practices. We value the diversity of our staff and welcome applications from people from protected groups under the Equality Act 2010, this specifically includes age, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/reassignment, race, religion, disability, pregnancy and maternity and marriage and civil partnership.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Welsh language skills are desirable