Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
Heart Failure Specialist Nurse
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Heart Failure Nurse
The heart failure nurse plays a critical role in the management and care of patients diagnosed with heart failure.
Successful Candidate Attributes
The successful candidate will display a thorough understanding of heart failure pathophysiology, treatment modalities, and the ability to recognize early signs of deterioration. Candidates should have:
- Strong clinical assessment and advanced history taking skills
- Excellent communication abilities
- A passion for patient education and advocacy
Role Support for Professional Development
For the correct candidate, this role would support professional development progression from band 6 to band 7, including training for:
- Clinical assessment and advanced history taking
- Heart Failure Management
- Independent Non-Medical Prescribing (V300)
To allow progression, the candidate would need to display completion of the Heart Failure Nurse competency framework as outlined by the British Society Of Heart Failure.
Key Responsibilities
- Assessing patients with heart failure, providing clinical decision-making, and developing care plans to optimise medications and alternative therapies within the community outpatient setting
- Assessing patients with heart failure, providing clinical decision-making, and developing care plans to optimise medications and alternative therapies within the acute intravenous diuretic outpatient capacity
- Managing medications, including or working towards non-medical prescribing
- Providing patient, family, and carer education and psychological care, promoting self-management strategies to minimise the risk of hospitalisation from decompensated heart failure
- Collaborating with other healthcare professionals through primary, secondary, or private care services to ensure coordinated care and timely escalation of care needs
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Benefits
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from:
- Learning and development opportunities to support your career progression
- Flexible and agile working opportunities
- NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension, and access to NHS discount schemes
- A range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce
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Our Commitment
- Promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong
- Encouraging new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply
- Valuing differences and ensuring colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect
- Supporting the Armed Forces Community and employing service leavers/veterans and their families
Our Vision and Mission
- Vision: To provide outstanding care, support healthy communities, and be a great place to work.
- Mission: To provide personal and compassionate care every time.
- Care Values: Collaborate, aspire, respect, and enable.
Contact Information
For further details or informal visits, contact:
Name: Jaimie Gould
Job Title: Matron for Cardiovascular Services
Email Address: jaimie.gould@nhs.net
Telephone Number: 01494 426 919
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