Job summary
- Main area
- Heart Failure
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 362-A-24-6949112
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stockport NHS Foundation trust
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/02/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Heart Failure Specialist Nurse (Band 7)
Band 7
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear
Job overview
Stockport Heart Failure Service is looking to recruit a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse to complement the current integrated team.
The post will be in addition to the current team, consisting of Heart Failure Specialist Nurses, Heart Failure consultants and a GP with Extended Role (GPwER) in Cardiology, Clinical Support Workers and an Exercise Specialist.
The heart failure service delivers holistic evidence based specialist care to heart failure patients diagnosed with Heart Failure. It is entirely integrated delivering specialist heart failure care in the community and local hospital trust. As a result, the service operates across a variety of settings including community based clinics, patients homes, and secondary care. This requires flexibility within the role and a wide range of skills and experience in caring for heart failure patients.
The post holder will be required to manage a caseload of heart failure patients offering an integrated and holistic approach Expectations of the role require autonomous practice ensuring optimisation of medical therapy, education and support to patients and relatives/ carers aiming to reduce symptoms, prevent unnecessary hospital admissions/ re-admissions and maximise patient’s quality of life.
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The post holder will assist in the on-going development of the Stockport Heart Failure Service as dictated by demand and changes in service delivery. |
Main duties of the job
Main Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide clinical care for caseload of patients using advanced specialist skills and knowledge to undertake full assessments of patients with chronic heart failure.
- Provide support to patients, families and carers ensuring clear communication, and accurate information in relation to the diagnosis of heart failure, treatment and the maintenance of a healthy lifestyle, promoting self-management, and optimising quality of life .
- Accountable for own professional actions and clinical decisions, acting as an advanced independent practitioner/decision maker.
- Assist in the further development of the community-based nurse led heart failure service for patients with a diagnosis of heart failure, registered with Stockport GP’s.
- Ensure the efficient delivery of a specialist heart failure service, responding to changes in demand, being proactive in service review.
- Work in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams and colleagues in both hospital and community setting.
- Provide palliative care and end of life support to patients with advanced heart failure.
- Act as a resource promoting evidence based practice and best management of heart failure across the borough of Stockport providing an inpatient and community-wide service.
- Participate in delivering structured education to other healthcare professionals.
- Participation in the National Heart Failure Audit.
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:
- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Lead clinical care for caseload of patients using advanced specialist skills and knowledge to undertake full assessments of patients with chronic heart failure. Plan individualised care implement treatment plans and advise other clinicians and GP’s. Monitor and review patients ensuring optimal treatment is achieved on an individual basis, and quality of life maintained/improved.
- Provide support and education to patients, families and carers ensuring clear communication, and accurate information in relation to the diagnosis of heart failure, treatment regimes, and the significance and maintenance of a healthy lifestyle, in order to enable patients to manage their condition effectively, promoting self-management, and optimising quality of life whenever possible.
- To ensure patients’ pharmacological management plans and the heart failure medicines portfolio are safe, within manufacturers’ licenses or accepted clinical use, and comply with all current legislation.
- Accountable for own professional actions and clinical decisions, acting as an advanced independent practitioner/decision maker.
- Assist in the further development of the community-based nurse led heart failure service for patients with a diagnosis of heart failure, registered with Stockport GP’s.
- Ensure the efficient delivery of a specialist heart failure service, responding to changes in demand, being proactive in service review, ensuring rotation and cover of each element of the specialist role, including clinics, home visits, Inreach, and heart failure patient education programmes.
- Work in collaboration with multi-disciplinary teams and colleagues in both hospital and community settings, promoting strong links between primary care and secondary care, ensuring collaborative working to improve patient care and outcomes.
- Provide palliative care and end of life support to patients with end stage heart failure.
- Act as a resource and adviser promoting evidence-based practice and best management of heart failure across the borough of Stockport providing an inpatient and community-wide service.
- Plan own workload in collaboration with service lead to meet the needs of the heart failure patients under the care of the service. Assist in ensuring no avoidable periods where inadequate cover amongst the team, due to advanced planning of team resources, wherever possible, i.e. leave, study, training.
- Daily review of service workload and adjustment amongst the specialist team where necessary to cover all elements of the service responsibilities, including with notice changes in working patterns.
- Responsible for daily clinical triage, as required of new referrals within the heart failure service, in accordance with referral criteria, advising and supporting administration team.
- Accountable for organising own workload within working hours, prioritising according to clinical need, urgency and appropriateness.
- Ability to change planned work to meet changes in service demand/priority at short notice.
- Ensure the effective and efficient use of resources available to the heart failure service.
- Work in accordance with agreed Stockport NHS Foundation Trust policies and protocols, Stockport Heart Failure Guidelines, local and national guidelines and the NMC Code of Professional Conduct.
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- Participate in clinical governance, providing clinical expertise to the team, disseminating current research, advances in heart failure management/ practice, sharing contemporary clinical practice, research and new approaches of best practice in heart failure care.
- Lone working, in accordance to Trust policy
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
Person specification
Personal Specification
Essential criteria
- Registered nurse
- Has experience working as a band 6 in Cardiology or with chronic disease
- Car driver
- Able to use IT systems
- Evidence of leadership in previous roles
- Evidence of ongoing professional development/education
- Evidence of service development/change management/undertaking projects
Desirable criteria
- NMP or willing to undertake
- Clinical examination/assessment course
- Teaching or mentoring qualification
- Heart Failure module
Personal Specification
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates ability of working as an autonomous practitioner
Personal Specification
Desirable criteria
- Advanced Care Planning/Enhanced Communication course
Pesonal Specification
Essential criteria
- Heart failure/ cardiology/ relevant post graduate qualification or equivalent clinical experience in the speciality
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alison Bethel
- Job title
- Service Lead: Stockport Heart Failure Service
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 204 4669
- Additional information
For further information or to arrange an informal visit please email [email protected]
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