The Community Heart Failure Nurse Specialist will work autonomously with patients in the community but may have clinical support from the primary and secondary care heart failure teams and Cardiologists. Improve the patients quality of life as well as their medical and nursing management, in order to reduce unnecessary hospital admission & readmission. Provide expertise to increase the skills & confidence of other team members and community practitioners in the care and management of heart failure patients and support the use of the NICE Clinical Guidelines for heart failure, local CCG Commissioning Framework guidelines.