A Vacancy at Norfolk and Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Fixed term contract/ secondment opportunity for 23 months
The cardiology team at NNUH are looking for experienced cardiac nurses to join our heart failure specialist nurse team. This is an exciting opportunity for someone with significant experience of cardiac nursing wishing to join a highly professional multi-disciplinary team.
In the outpatient setting nurse led heart failure clinics are run to review medications and to offer education and self-management strategies. The heart failure service has a multidisciplinary approach and as a team we work closely to ensure the best care for our patients.
We are proud of our high-quality services, which are based on integrity and respecting the wide range of people that access our care, as well as those skilled and dedicated individuals who continually demonstrate excellence in their work. Team working is vital, and we are committed to the provision of care through our values of Pride, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence
We strive for excellence and this is recognised at a national level. We are a heart attack centre and our services are both comprehensive and innovative, meeting national standards whilst exploring new ways of working. We are keen to share learning and network through local and national forums.
If you are considering applying for this post on a secondment basis, please discuss with your Line Manager prior to applying to ascertain whether this could be supported.
The role will include reviewing in-patients with heart failure from all specialities, delivering information and education to support patients and help them manage their condition. Part of the role will also be to develop the day case diuretic service at the Cromer site.
The post holder will facilitate early discharge from hospital and reduce readmission rates for patients with a diagnosis of heart failure. They will work collaboratively with the Heart Failure Specialist team, GPs, Community Heart Failure Nurses and Community Matrons to meet NICE guidance in the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure and ensure that all heart failure patients and their carers have equitable access to appropriate education, advice and support. The post holder will develop and deliver additional clinics at Cromer Hospital (with access to Consultant advice and supervision). The post holder will work with the heart failure services to develop care pathways that provide access to palliative care services.
To support the delivery of a high quality, safe and compassionate healthcare service, all staff are expected to act as a role model to others in all aspects of their work and consistently demonstrate NNUH’s ‘PRIDE’ values of People focused, Respect, Integrity, Dedication and Excellence and demonstrate behaviours that support and encourage an inclusive culture.
Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!
The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.
We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity
We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:
• Flexible working hours
• Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
• Multi Faith prayer room
• Discounted gym memberships
• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
• Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH site
• Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
• On-site Nursery
• On-site cafes offering staff discounts
• Support in career development
• Flexible staff bank
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics
• To provide a comprehensive nursing service for adult patients with heart failure.
• To manage a specified case load of patients, providing education, information and support. To improve patients’ understanding of their condition to enable them to make informed choices about their care and understand the rationale of investigations and treatments.
• To work closely with the Consultants, medical and nursing staff, multi-disciplinary team and Heads of Department within the Directorate.
• To ensure that patients are seen within recommended time scales and targets where these are in place.
• To develop protocols and standard operating procedures (SOP) defining heart failure care pathways, including IV diuretics, admission avoidance, shortening length of stay (including early discharge or early admission to shorten length of stay), up-titration of medication and any other relevant clinical processes and pathways.
• To visit inpatients on the wards as appropriate to ensure continuity of care and to give advice/support.
• To accept referrals from medical/nursing staff within the Trust for newly-diagnosed and existing patients with heart failure.
• To appropriately discharge patients from their caseload who are stable within divisional guidelines.
• To respond to telephone enquiries and facilitate/co-ordinate admission or changes in appointment dates as warranted by the patient’s clinical condition. This includes operation of a patient telephone helpline whilst focussing on ambulatory/day case/outpatient care, liaising with, and working directly within, the Aylsham Medical Day Unit (AMDU).
• To administer intravenous diuretics and other medication as clinically indicated and facilitate the optimisation of medication and other treatments.
Please refer to the Job Description for the full specification of responsibilities and requirements for this post.
This advert closes on Sunday 17 Nov 2024