Main area: Cardiology
Grade Band: 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (3 long days)
Job ref: 287-AMED-244-24
Employer: Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Aintree Hospital
Town: Liverpool
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Per Annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/12/2024 23:59
Job overview
An exciting opportunity to join our Integrated Heart Failure Service at Liverpool University Hospital Foundation NHS Trust based at the Royal Hospital.
We are seeking highly motivated individuals with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
The successful candidate will be responsible for the development of a cohesive management programme for patients with heart failure in line with local and national guidelines, working across acute, community, and virtual ward settings. The service will operate 7 days per week and requires flexibility working within an evolving proactive, dynamic multidisciplinary Heart Failure Team.
The main aim of the role is to prevent unnecessary admissions to hospital and improve heart failure management and control with optimisation of evidence-based treatments.
The successful candidate will need to be a NMC registered nurse who has physical health assessment skills and is a non-medical prescriber. You will need to demonstrate strong clinical reasoning and prioritisation skills and be able to work effectively, both independently and as a member of a team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide expertise and advice in the treatment of highly complex conditions, undertaking treatments as required.
In addition, the post holder will use their expertise to be a source of training and mentorship to those within the immediate team/area and as necessary, more widely.
Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating the establishment of systems and processes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Provide care, advice, and guidance in the treatment of others, when dealing with complex highly specialist conditions.
Responsible for the delivery of identified specialist training.
Work in partnership with other services/stakeholder partnership agencies to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.
Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its patients/clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.
Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
Develop partnerships and joint working with service users and stakeholders to improve patient/client care.
Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.
Challenge professional and organisational boundaries to ensure that the role is focused on meeting the needs of service users.
Act as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.
Act as a role model to others ensuring that patients receive the most effective care possible.
Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the target population.
Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence-based clinical decision making.
Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to others when managing complex and highly complex situations.
Assess patient conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex care, drawing on specialist services as required.
Undertake chronic disease management reviews of the housebound patient/client, where appropriate.
Provide support in managing patients/clients with chronic diseases.
Following holistic assessment of need, develop individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, with the involvement of patients and carers.
Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Master’s degree or equivalent in relevant discipline.
* Registration with relevant professional body.
* Evidence of CPD/short courses.
* Appropriate prescriber.
Experience
* Experience of management and clinical leadership.
* Experience of successful multi-agency working.
Knowledge
* Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care.
* Understanding of multi-agency working.
* Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
* IT literate.
* Ability to work to timelines and manage a diverse workload.
Skills
* Evidence of influencing, motivating, and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
* Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients/carers/colleagues.
* Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues.
* Excellent communication, organisational, and interpersonal skills.
* Ability to understand and analyse complex data.
* Self-management and motivation skills.
* Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues.
* Report writing skills.
* Ability to travel to work across boundaries.
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