Job Description

Are you an experienced senior nurse who has experience in heart failure management? Do you want to work for a unique, dynamic organisation that is transforming adult community services locally? Are you enthusiastic about keeping people in their own homes and preventing admission to hospital?



If you are, we'd love to hear from you.



We are looking for a motivated nurse with a passion for improving patient care and experience in heart failure management to join our team based at Milford community hospital.

You will be assessing individual patient's needs to improve symptoms, quality of life and prognosis. This involves supporting GPs, and medical team's management of patients, promoting best evidence based practice supported by NICE and local guidelines. You will have advanced clinical, nursing and communication skills and work autonomously within the heart failure community team. Additionally the role extends to attend/support the secondary care cardiology multidisciplinary heart failure team meeting led by the secondary care service.



Interviews will be available via Microsoft Teams or on-site at Milford Community Hospital.



Please note, applicants are requested to prepare and deliver a 10-minute presentation on a NICE-approved medical treatment for heart failure.



This is a Monday to Friday service (No weekends OR Bank Holidays), flexible working options (9 day fortnight/ compressed hours), based at Milford and covering the Guildford and Waverley area.

The aims of the role are to:

Promote appropriate timely assessment, investigations and treatment to prevent unnecessary hospital admission. Use specialist clinical skills to optimise evidenced based medical therapy. Liaise with other professional to facilitate relevant social and supportive care. Educate patients, families, and clinicians regarding heart failure management. Reduce mortality and morbidity. Refer and support planned short admission to heart failure ambulatory care unit. Support palliative and end of life needs. Support national and local heart failure audits such patient satisfaction surveys and Enhancing Quality.

The nurses' role is to optimise the medical management of people with heart failure. Improving the quality of life for patients and their carers by reducing unnecessary hospital admission and providing a link between the GPs, cardiologist and specialist teams.



Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.



We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.



The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.



Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than 45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.



Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.



A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo



The Heart Failure Nurse Specialist (HFNS) will assess individual patient's needs to improve symptoms, quality of life and prognosis. This involves supporting GPs and medical team's management of patients, promoting best evidence based practice supported by NICE and local guidelines. The HFNS will have advanced clinical, nursing and communication skills and will work autonomously within the heart failure community team and the wider Trust. Additionally the role extends to attend/support the secondary care cardiology multidisciplinary heart failure team meeting led by the secondary care HFNS.