Community Heart Failure Nurse Specialist | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 05 April 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £45,753 - £52,067 per annum (incl of HCAS) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 05 May 2024 |
| Location: | Slough, SL1 2BJ |
| Company: | Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6206992/371-CHS446 |
Summary
A Monday-Friday 8am-4pm working pattern is just one of the attractions this opportunity provides. We are looking to recruit a Band 7 Community Heart Function Nurse Specialist based Upton Hospital in Slough to cover our Windsor and Maidenhead caseload.
You will be an enthusiastic and experienced nurse, with a warm personality and great people skills. Willing to undertake relevant training, you will have leadership experience and be able to demonstrate innovative practice. Showing effective management skills, you will take responsibility for case management of patients with heart failure in a community setting.
You will be responsible for ensuring high quality evidence based care for patients with heart failure, their families and carers in the community.
• Run community-based Heart Failure clinics in various community settings
• Work flexibly in response to service need across multiple sites
• Take responsibility for case management of patients with heart failure in the community setting
• Supporting colleagues in the delivery of compassionate, safe and structured care
• Make differential diagnosis within level of competence
• Plan and provide treatment in collaboration with others as appropriate
Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is a specialist mental health and community health services trust. Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’re committed to providing the best possible care to people across Berkshire.
We value diversity and are proud to be a Stonewall Top 100 Employer.We work hard to create an inclusive environment where you’ll be supported by friendly and professional colleagues to flourish.
Our values at Berkshire Healthcare:
• Caring for and about you is our top priority
• Committed to providing good quality, safe services
• Working Together with you to develop innovative solutions
We welcome people who share these values to come and work for us.
Benefits of working for us include:
• Flexible working options to support work-life balance.
• 27 days’ annual leave rising with service + opportunity to buy and sell
• Generous NHS pension scheme
• Excellent learning and career development opportunities
• ‘Cycle to Work’ and car leasing scheme
• Access to a range of wellbeing tools and services
• Discounts at hundreds of popular retailers and restaurants
• Staff networks for race, diversity, disabilities and armed forces community to support equality
• Generous maternity, paternity, adoption and special leave.
• Free parking across Trust sites
The “must haves” for you to be considered for this role:
1. Recent Clinical Experience within the speciality
2. Advanced Physical assessment skills
3. Demonstrate effective Chronic Disease management
4. Nurse Prescribers course
For further information about the role, please see attached job description and person specification.We strongly encourage you to review how you meet the criteria in the person specification and write about this point-by-point in your supporting statement for the best chance of being shortlisted. For further application tips – see the help with your application document attached once you click apply.
If you’re someone who shares our passion for excellence and care, you belong at Berkshire Healthcare!
We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics. Reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled applicants where required.
This advert closes on Sunday 14 Apr 2024
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