Heart Failure Specialist Nurse

Oxleas Heart Failure Service is a dynamic, highly experienced & award-winning service. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled & motived nurse to join our team & develop as a heart failure specialist nurse. This is a community based role caring for residents with heart failure living in the London Borough of Bexley. Care is provided in both clinic & home environments. This post is ideal for a suitably skilled & trained cardiac nurse who is keen to develop as a heart failure nurse. You will be supported in this post to develop skills such as advanced clinical assessment, medication reviews & optimisation, patient education & monitoring. You will also be involved in the end of life care of the heart failure patient. You will need excellent clinical & communication skills & an ability to work with patients with diverse health & social needs. The post holder will work closely with members of the wider multi-disciplinary team in primary & acute health care settings. The post holder will also work closely with the Cardiac Rehabilitation Team to ensure patients are provided with sufficient support with their cardiac diagnosis. This a community post requiring travel across the Borough, the post holder should hold a full driving licence & suitable vehicle for work purposes. Please note Oxleas posts are subject to a 3 month probation period. Important Sponsorship Information for this post: We are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post., The Heart Failure Specialist Nurse will be a key member of the Long Term Conditions team, responsible for the delivery of expert community cardiac care and in particular, heart failure. The post holder will have their own caseload of patients and take on direct responsibility to deliver high quality, holistic care to local residents, ensuring that patients have equal access to services that are responsive, personalized and patient-led. The post holder will be responsible for assessing their patients physical, emotional and psycho-social care needs. The post holder will support patients and their carers to ensure they understand their cardiac condition and involve them in planning their care. The heart failure specialist nurse will work alongside experienced heart failure nurses and the cardiac rehabilitation team to provide a comprehensive and individualised package of care, as well as liaising with the patients GP and any other health care professionals. This position will require the post holder to work from an office base with regular travel to provide clinics in community settings and home visits.

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care