# Heart Failure Nurse Specialist

**Company**: Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
**Location**: Croydon
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: part-time
**Salary**: £55524.00 to £62652.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

Our friendly and well-established heart failure service in Croydon is looking for a highly motivated nurse to join our team in this large and diverse London borough.

We are a proactive and innovative multidisciplinary team, working across community sites and within Croydon University Hospital. We are currently running some exciting service development projects and strive to deliver high-quality care to all our heart failure patients.

If you have heart failure experience with excellent organisational and communication skills and would like to join our team, we would love to hear from you. The ideal candidate would be an experienced heart failure nurse, qualified in physical examination and non-medical prescribing, however professional development will be supported.

The successful candidate must be committed to working with heart failure patients, providing excellent standards of care and being an integral member of the multidisciplinary team.

**Main duties of the job**

The Heart Failure service at Croydon is an integrated service. You will be required to work in both the inpatient setting and the community, optimising the management and delivery of heart failure care to adults with Heart Failure. You will be required to use advanced specialist skills and knowledge to undertake full assessments of patients with Heart Failure, leading to safe decision-making and implementation of management plans. Providing effective, evidence-based treatment, improving patients' quality of life through delivering high-standard and holistic care. You will be required to independently manage a community caseload.

Excellent communication skills are required and the ability to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team is essential, liaising with all health professionals treating heart failure patients in primary, secondary care and tertiary centres to ensure seamless care.

**Benefits**

- Agenda for Change pay scheme

- Band 7 salary (£55,524 to £62,652 a year)

- Part-time contract

**Person Specification**

- Qualified nurse with NMC registration

- Heart failure or cardiac CPD qualification at level 6

- Teaching/mentorship qualification

- Minimum 2 years experience as working as a band 6

- Able to demonstrate having worked with heart failure patients

- Excellent written communication

- Demonstration of management and organisational skills

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## Skills

### Required
- heart failure care
- physical examination
- non-medical prescribing
- communication skills
- organisational skills

### Nice to have
- NMP
- physical assessment course
- community experience
- previous nurse-led clinic experience

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