Description
We have an exciting opportunity to join our established Community Heart Failure service as a Heart Failure Specialist Nurse on a fixed-term contract or secondment until May 2027.
Covering the London Borough of Wandsworth, the service provides complex care for people living with heart failure, working closely with primary and secondary care, community integrated services and other healthcare professionals.
You will use your specialist heart failure knowledge and clinical skills to support patients with complex needs, deliver evidence-based care and provide education that helps people understand and self-manage their condition.
The role involves working across both patients' homes and clinic-based settings.
Main duties of the job
- Manage a caseload of people with heart failure in the community, using specialist knowledge and clinical skills to assess needs, plan treatment and provide ongoing support and advice.
- Work with the wider heart failure team across primary and secondary care to deliver evidence-based care and help ensure patients receive coordinated support.
- Monitor patients following discharge to help prevent readmission.
- Undertake comprehensive assessments for patients with complex heart failure and co-morbidities, including physical examination, and develop individualised management and treatment plans using clinical reasoning.
- Administer medication in line with national and local guidance.
- Contribute to the development of heart failure care pathways and implementation of relevant NICE guidance.
- Coordinate education for community health professionals and act as a specialist resource for advice.
About us
We are proud to be one of the largest community healthcare providers in the country, with more than 4,500 colleagues caring for over four million people across London and Hertfordshire. Every day, our teams bring their skill, compassion, and determination to the people who depend on us.
Benefits
We offer a competitive employment package because the work you do matters. At Central London Community Healthcare, you will join an inclusive organisation that invests in its people, supports development, and helps you thrive while delivering high-quality care.