Clinical Nurse Specialist - Heart Failure Nurse Specialist
| Posting date: | 23 January 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £61,631.00 to £68,623.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £61631.00 - £68623.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 February 2026 |
| Location: | Edmonton, N18 1QX |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9391-26-0133 |
Summary
Act as autonomous first line of contact for patients seeking advice or support. Provides professional and clinical leadership, providing a highly visible and authoritative presence ensuring the delivery of excellence in core, specialist and advanced nursing practice, audit, research, and service and practice development agendas. To identify outcome measures which illustrate the quality of the service in line with national targets with a particular emphasis on establishing ways to show patient related outcome measures. Recognises and champions innovations in nursing practice ensuring they are supported, evaluated and contribute to develop an evidence base to meet the needs of the patients, families, relatives and staff. Communicates highly complex and sensitive information to patients, carers and other staff whilst promoting a culture of shared decision making across all sites to support patients through the decision making process. Able to diffuse potentially hostile and antagonistic situations with staff, patients and relatives, using highly developed interpersonal and negotiation skills. Contributes to service developments and innovations across the speciality and relevant external agencies, locally and nationally. Contributes to the trusts nursing and professional agenda and promotes the trust as an international centre of excellence and national leader in the speciality. Nationally aware of patient pathways and patient experience initiatives, and be able to implement these locally working together with patient groups Developing innovative models of care and effective patient pathways using QI and CPG methodology that ensure patients receive the best possible service which is delivered closer to patients homes. Liaise with other members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure seamless patient care through the development of protocols and care pathways. Contribute to protocols, documentation systems, standards, policies and clinical guidelines for others to use in practice. To work with the senior management team to ensure that divisional and trust objectives are met. In conjunction with the senior management team participate in business planning cycle, identifying areas of service development, focusing in particular on those related to nursing / education / training / research activities. Contribute to organisational development projects to transform clinical services to meet the needs of world class nursing for the future.