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Job overview
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 pro-active 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.
Interview TBC
Main duties of the job
The focus of this role will be within the inpatient setting, optimising the management and delivery of heart failure care to adults admitted to the Trust with Heart Failure, reviewing patients at the point of diagnosis and also those who are known Heart failure, admitted with decompensation. 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, evidenced based treatment, improving patients’ quality of life through delivering high-standard and holistic care. There will be participation in heart failure doctor-led wards rounds but also autonomous reviews of patients will be required.
You will run a nurse-led 2 week post discharge clinic to capture patients who have been discharged after an acute heart failure admission, in line with national standards and to reduce re-admission rates.
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.
To actively participate in multidisciplinary team meetings.
To take part in developing heart failure services and clinical practice through involvement in management, teaching, education, research and audit activity.
Working for our organisation
Croydon Health Services NHS Trust provides hospital and community services from a number of community and specialist clinics throughout Croydon. The Trust was formed on 1st August 2010 through the integration of Croydon Community Health Services and Mayday Healthcare NHS Trust. Around 4,100 staff provide services for a population of over 360,000 people who are relatively young with a high level of ethnic diversity.
Our main hospital site, Croydon University Hospital is one of the busiest in London. We’re also leading the way in providing more healthcare outside hospitals at clinics, specialist centres and in people’s homes. Our experienced district nursing teams, Allied Health Professionals and community matrons look after people of all ages across Croydon.
Across the NHS everyone is working hard to meet growing demand and we’re no exception. But with the right people on board, we are rising to this challenge, putting our people in the driving seat, encouraging innovation and transforming our services to give local people the quality of care they deserve. Croydon Health Services places a great deal of importance on education and training throughout the careers of all of our staff.
If you want the opportunity to have a real impact, challenge yourself and be part of an NHS Trust that’s making a real difference then a career at Croydon Health Services could be just what you’re looking for.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached supporting document (Job Description) which contains more information about the role.
Person specification
Education/qualifications
* Qualified nurse with NMC registration
* Heart failure or cardiac CPD qualification at level 6
* NMP or willingness to undertake prescribing course
* Physical assessment course or willingness to undertake in the near future
Experience
* Minimum 2 years experience as working as a band 6
* Able to demonstrate having worked with heart failure patients
* Able to demonstrate previous involvement in teaching and presentations
* Experience of working as a band 7 in cardiology/heart failure
* Community experience and/or previous nurse-led clinic experience
* Involvement in clinical audit or research
Skills/experience
* Demonstration of management and organisational skills
* Able to recognise own limitations and areas of professional development required
We particularly welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates as there is an under-representation at senior level within Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.
We offer many flexible and part-time working opportunities and all of our substantive & Fixed Term employees can enjoy a range of staff benefits, including parking, a gym, an active health and wellbeing programme, an on-site nursery and a cycle to work scheme. We value diversity and promote equality of opportunity.
DETAILS ON APPLICATION PROCESS
Please note that no job offer or volunteer placement will be made until satisfactory references have been received. You are asked to provide email addresses for all referees, and ensure their accuracy before submitting your application.
If you need to discuss any reasonable adjustments under the Equality Act, require the application form in a different format or would like advice in regard to the recruitment process, please email the South West London Recruitment Hub - khft.askrecruitment@nhs.net
In submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process, if applicable, should you be appointed.
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Due to the high volumes of applications we receive, we reserve the right to close any adverts before the published closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.
If you decide to apply for this post, but do not hear back from us within four weeks of the closing date, please assume that you have not been shortlisted on this occasion.
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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.
Name: Joanne Rungusumy
Job title: Acting Lead Nurse for Heart failure
Email address: j.rungusumy@nhs.net
Telephone number: 020 8274 6416
Informal visits and telephone calls to discuss the job in more detail are welcomed. Please contact Joanne Rungusumy (Acting Lead Nurse for Heart failure and Arrhythmia Specialist Nurse Services) on the details provided.
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