Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust
Heart Failure Specialist Nurse
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Oxleas Heart Failure Service
Oxleas Heart Failure Service is a dynamic, highly experienced & award-winning service. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled & motivated nurse to join our team & develop as a heart failure specialist nurse.
This is a community-based role caring for residents with heart failure living in the London Borough of Bexley. Care is provided in both clinic & home environments.
About the Role
This post is ideal for a suitably skilled & trained cardiac nurse who is keen to develop as a heart failure nurse. You will be supported in this post to develop skills such as advanced clinical assessment, medication reviews & optimisation, patient education & monitoring. You will also be involved in the end-of-life care of the heart failure patient.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide high-quality, holistic care to local residents.
- Assess patients' physical, emotional, and psycho-social care needs.
- Support patients and their carers to ensure they understand their cardiac condition and involve them in planning their care.
- Work alongside experienced heart failure nurses and the cardiac rehabilitation team.
- Liaise with the patient's GP and any other health care professionals.
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Requirements
- Excellent clinical & communication skills.
- Ability to work with patients with diverse health & social needs.
- Full driving license & suitable vehicle for work purposes.
About Oxleas
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing, and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils, and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools, and people’s homes.
We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley, Greenwich, and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup, and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire, and Gloucestershire, Kent, and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.
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Our Purpose
To improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
- We’re Kind
- We’re Fair
- We Listen
- We Care
Important Sponsorship Information
We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post.
Probation Period
Please note Oxleas posts are subject to a 3-month probation period.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Sarah Hubball
Job Title: Cardiac Lead Nurse
Email Address: sarah.hubball@nhs.net
Telephone Number: 02083197060
Laura Oyewole
Job Title: Cardiac Lead Nurse
Email Address: lauraoyewole@nhs.net
Telephone Number: 02083197060
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