Job Introduction
Are you an experienced, dynamic, forward thinking, and enthusiastic registered nurse?
Do you have a passion for managing people with heart failure either in their own home or managed in a clinic?
If so then this may be the job for you!
We are looking for an experienced band 7 heart failure specialist nurse to join our team based in Keynsham Health Centre but working across the BANES area.
You will be working as part of a team as well as autonomously within the community, caring for patients who meet the community heart failure specialist nurses’ criteria in clinic as well as in their own homes. You will aim to prevent hospital admission, promote independence within the patient’s own home, optimise medication and empower patients with self-management of their condition.
As part of the role, you will be expected to have excellent communication skills and the ability to work closely and liaise with the wider multidisciplinary team in primary and secondary care.
As this is a community role, we would require applicants to have a driving license and access to a car for work purposes.
Main Responsibility
In this role you will:
- Assist in the management of a defined caseload of high-risk people
- Manage clinics within BANES location
- Optimize medication and prescribe
- Engage in effective communication with patients, relatives, carers, and other agencies
- Undertake visits to service users
- Use assessment skills to identify service users’ needs and act appropriately
- Promote shared decision making with individuals regarding their care plan encouraging proactive self-management
For a full list of responsibilities please see the attached job description
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate for this role will:
- Be a registered Nurse with NMC registration.
- Hold a qualification in non-medical prescribing V300.
- Have a qualification and experience with management of chronic heart failure.
- Have a driving license and access to a car for work purposes.
- Be ale to work as part of a team whilst also having the ability to work autonomously using their intuition.
- Experience in a community role would be essential.
Package Description
As a Band 7 Heart Failure Specialist Nurse you’ll be part of our valued team in Bath and North East Somerset
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £43,742 - £50,056 Band 7 Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
- 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
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- 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
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- 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
- 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
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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