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Location

Hertfordshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

Our heart failure specialist nurse team play a pivotal and dynamic role in the care of our patients with heart failure. This role will be centred around supporting the team in the management of patients on the virtual ward platform. Virtual wards allow patients who otherwise would be in hospital to receive acute care, monitoring and treatment at home. Your role will be focused on ensuring medicines are optimised, managing symptoms, providing lifestyle and self-care advice to patients and carers and ensuring the patient has a comprehensive management plan on discharge. You will be supported by our multidisciplinary team which includes specialist nurses, doctors, pharmacists and links to teams such as cardiac rehab and palliative care.

The team also reviews patients in hospital and in outpatient clinics. You will be taking part in Multidisciplinary team meetings and inputting data into the national heart failure database (NICOR).

You will receive a comprehensive induction programme, will be supported by senior HFSN and follow the BSH competency framework to guide development in your role.

This post is one year fixed term and part time (0.8 WTE) due to funding awarded to the heart failure team. Depending on a candidates experience the post may be considered at a band 6 level which would be full time at 37.5 hours per week.

Informal visits either in person or virtually are encouraged, please contact us for discussions regarding the role.

The main duties of this post will be to to facilitate the provision of high quality specialist care to patients with acute and chronic heart failure. This will involve assessing the individual needs of patients using assessment skills and utilising various investigations. The post holder will need to recommend heart failure medications to improve quality of life and reduce morbidity and mortality. They will be expected to promote self management and provide health education.

A key responsibility will be to supporting the management of patients on the virtual ward platform. Virtual wards support patients who would otherwise be in hospital to receive the acute care, monitoring and treatment remotely in their own home. This includes either preventing avoidable admissions into hospital, or supporting early discharge out of hospital. The role will involve identifying appropriate patients and supporting the use of remote monitoring.

Please see the job description for more details of the main duties of this role.

The Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s biggest and most innovative trusts. Across three main hospitals, our dedicated army of staff care for over 1.6million patients, treat more than 200,000 in A&E, deliver over 8,000 babies and carry out more than 17million tests.

Our size, scale and influence offer you unrivalled career opportunities and a forward-thinking approach to working that works around your lifestyle. From flexible hours and generous benefits, to next level training, we make it easier to take your career to the top

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Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.

This advert closes on Thursday 21 Mar 2024

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