Heart Failure Specialist Nurse Team Leader
| Posting date: | 17 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 January 2026 |
| Location: | Halifax, HX35AQ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9372-25-0764 |
Summary
Lead on the day-to-day clinical coordination of the Heart Failure Service managing referrals, patient flow, and escalation plans. Deputise for the Cardiac Rehabilitation lead, including chairing meetings, coordinating team activities, and managing service priorities. Operational oversight of the Heart Failure Service / virtual Ward, including patient triage, allocation of visits, and ensuring timely clinical interventions. Act as a key liaison between hospital and community teams to support seamless transfers of care into and out of the virtual ward. Contribute to strategic planning and service development, including business cases, pathway redesign, and integration with PCNs and ICB priorities. Ensure safe and effective remote monitoring of patients using digital platforms, physiological monitoring tools, and structured clinical reviews. Act as the clinical point of contact for primary care, acute trusts, and urgent care services referring to or discharging from the virtual ward. Participate in data collection and evaluation of virtual ward outcomes and innovations. To be responsible for ensuring that the induction process of new staff to the service area takes place. Monitor rate of readmission, identifying any trends and working within the multidisciplinary team to address these Work with all members of the multidisciplinary team to develop practice, research and audit. Work within the framework of clinical governance, work continuously to improve quality and safeguard standards of care, maintaining a patient focused service, promoting and implementing evidence-based practice with measurable standards of care and outcomes. Be involved in audit projects to measure standards of care. To identify and highlight any gaps in the evidence/service provision for Heart Failure patients. Critically examine working practices within the department to identify cost improvements and effective measures, develop and implement action plans Understand the commissioning of services and any income generation from new work or changes in service that may affect income Understand the procurement of services in terms of service development initiatives, lead the team through service changes. To participate and lead in the writing of departmental guidelines and implement Trust wide/departmental policies, procedures and guidelines. Maintain, advance and develop personal theoretical knowledge, high standards of clinical competence and professional development through on-going self-education and attendance at relevant courses of study. Develop and maintain a peer network of support, information and learning with other nurse specialists at a local and National level. Maintain own professional portfolio.