East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Cardiac Specialist Nurse - Heart Failure Service
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Cardiac Specialist Nurse - Heart Failure Service
We are recruiting for a Cardiac Specialist Nurse - Heart Failure Service who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join a team of dynamic cardiac specialist nurses. You will have experience in cardiology with an interest in heart failure to ensure patient-centred clinical care. This will encompass the skills of assessment, examination, diagnosis and treatment within an agreed scope of practice within Cardiology, focusing mainly on the assessment and treatment of inpatients and in the heart failure clinics to ensure optimisation of medication and arrange appropriate cardiology tests and follow up.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support a new way of working that emphasises a more efficient and patient-focused service.
- Ensure the safe referral and discharge of patients.
- Provide expert Cardiology Nursing care, responsible for assessing, developing and implementing specialist nursing care programmes and undertaking specialist nursing procedures.
- Provide specialist advice and support to, and liaise with, other staff, including the provision of specialist education and training for other staff and students.
- Implement a clearly defined integrated approach to patient care encompassing new treatments and evidence-based care.
- Undertake research and lead clinical audits in own specialist area.
- Provide appropriate verbal and written patient information, thus empowering the patient to make informed decisions.
- Promote the service both within the Trust and externally to the organisation.
- Represent the trust and specialty at a regional and national level.
- Provide cross cover within the specialist nursing team.
- Work at different sites across East & North Herts NHS Trust, moving towards a 7-day service.
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Our Core Values:
- Include
- Respect
- Improve
We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
About Us
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is proud of the range of general & specialist services we provide & our 6,000 plus dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible & innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.
Hospitals We Run
- The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
- New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
- Hertford County, Hertford
- Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood
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We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation; our staff & patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.
Working for Us
We understand that finding & starting a new job is an important life decision. If you need reasonable adjustments for a disability, or a life event, such as menopause - so that we can consider your application fairly & to get the best out of you during the selection process, please let us know.
We are committed to a positive work-life balance for our employees.
Employees are entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns & we are committed to listen & consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made & considered formally, & will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.
Contact Us
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Kylie Murray
Job Title: Lead Nurse Cardiology
Email Address: kylie.murray@nhs.net
Telephone Number: 01438285009
If you would like to have an informal visit please contact me on the above.
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