Job Introduction
Are you passionate about transforming care and optimising patient outcomes for individuals with heart failure? Join our dedicated team across Dartford, Gravesend and Swanley, North Kent as a Heart Failure Community Specialist Nurse!
In this vital role, the Community Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) for Heart Failure will work as an independent clinical practitioner delivering a high-quality Community Heart Failure service to a specific caseload of patients, improving their quality of life, promoting excellence of health and independence within the community, preventing inappropriate avoidable hospital admissions, and facilitating early discharge, as well as provide education and health promotion.
Your base will be Livingstone Hospital, Dartford, with the requirement to travel across Dartford, Gravesend and Swanley. As this role is community based, a UK driving license and access to a car for work purposes is a requirement.
Main Responsibility
Key Responsibilities include:
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Patient Care & Education: Provide expert guidance and compassionate support, delivering complex and sensitive information empathetically to empower patients in managing their heart failure.
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Clinical Advocacy: Act as an advocate for patients, particularly in residential settings, ensuring their needs are met to manage heart failure effectively.
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Team Collaboration: Build and maintain strong working relationships with multidisciplinary teams and partner agencies to enhance continuity and quality of care.
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Education & Mentorship: Lead training programs for healthcare teams, patients, and caregivers to foster understanding and practical skills in heart failure management.
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Quality & Safety Assurance: Drive clinical governance at the team level, ensuring compliance with relevant standards and legislation while monitoring quality, safety, and service performance.
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Service Improvement: Play a critical role in analyzing patient outcomes, implementing service improvements, and engaging in continuous professional development.
For a full breakdown of responsibilities please see the attached job description.
The Ideal Candidate
This role requires a UK driving license and access to a car for work purposes.
This role requires strong organizational, supervisory, and data management abilities, along with the capacity to work both independently and in team settings.
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Leadership & Communication: Strong people management, communication, and IT skills.
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Clinical Expertise: Registered General Nurse with NMC registration, with a relevant clinical qualification, ideally a Master’s or postgraduate certification in heart failure. Non-Medical Prescibing V300-or willing to work towards
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Mentorship & Governance: ENB 998 or mentorship qualification, with an understanding of the Governance Framework.
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Knowledge & Clinical Skills: Proficiency in heart failure management, knowledge of current policies, NICE, and ESC guidelines, as well as drug and physiology specifics related to heart failure.
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Experience: Minimum 2 years of experience with heart failure patients (acute or community, Band 6 or above) and proven interagency collaboration and change management skills.
For a full list of requirements please see attached job description
Package Description
You will feel valued as a Band 7 Community Heart Failure Specialist Nurse within HCRG Care Group, working across Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
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24/25 AfC Band 7 Salary (depending on experience) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
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5% High cost area allowance
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Plentiful on site-parking
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Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
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Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
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Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
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Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
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An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
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The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
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Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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