About this role
Job summary
The post holder will Lead and line manage the established community heart failure team and work collaboratively with the enhanced respiratory service, in a predominantly Nurse led service in Cardiology Medicine Specialities. They will provide advanced clinical triage of new referrals, assessment and treatment of patients referred with heart failure, who may have a highly complex and/or chronic presentation. They will determine clinical diagnosis and treatments indicated and maintain records as an autonomous practitioner. They will support virtual ward and hospital at home environment from a heart failure perspective.
The post holder will provide expert clinical expertise to develop and enhance the service. This will be done in collaboration within a multidisciplinary team, enhanced respiratory team, reporting to the Nurses Consultant in cardiology and with the support of the established leads/ACP heart failure. They will ensure that evidence-based practice is inherent in all aspects of care and treatment and ensure this knowledge is disseminated throughout the clinical area, NCA and externally as appropriate.
Previous applicants need not apply
Main duties of the job
Advanced Clinical Practitioner - Heart Failure
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Advanced Clinical Practitioner to join our Heart Failure Service.
Working autonomously, you will manage a complex caseload, assessing referrals from GPs, SDEC and ED, providing expert advice, developing treatment plans and delivering ongoing care for patients with heart failure. You will utilise advanced clinical skills and specialist cardiology knowledge to support timely assessment and decision-making.
You will work across the four pillars of Advanced Practice, combining expert clinical care with leadership, education, research and service development. The role includes supporting and teaching junior doctors, nurses, trainee ACPs and wider healthcare colleagues across acute, community and primary care settings.
You will contribute to quality improvement, audit, research and service development initiatives, ensuring the service remains aligned with NICE, ESC, GMSCN and GMMMG guidance. You will also support the development of policies, protocols and clinical guidelines, while providing leadership to the Band 7 Heart Failure Specialist Nurse team.
Essential criteria
- Registered ACP/NMC with current professional accreditation
- Non-Medical Prescribing qualification
- Significant cardiology and heart failure experience
- Ability to work autonomously and lead service improvement initiatives
Join us and help shape the future of heart failure care.
About us
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham, and Salford, to save and improve lives.As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and collaborating closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we are always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility.
The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website: http://www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
The NCA is committed to providing inclusive, accessible care and building a workforce that reflects the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, identities and beliefs.
We are proud supporters of the Armed Forces community and offer a guaranteed interview to eligible applicants who meet the essential criteria. As a Disability Confident Employer, we also guarantee interviews for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria.
Vacancies may close early where high application volumes are received or an internal redeployee is identified.
For fixed-term roles, current NHS staff will be considered for secondments, while fixed-term contracts will be offered to external (non-NHS) applicants.
If you are applying for a secondment, please discuss this with your line manager before applying. Any secondment offer will be subject to management approval and service needs. Where release cannot be supported, the secondment may unfortunately be unable to proceed.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential
- Clinical based masters degree Advanced Nurse Practitioner or equivalent post graduate qualification for role
- Non-Medical Prescriber (Independent)
- Post basic qualification L7 in cardiology speciality.
- Recognised leadership qualification
- Recognised teaching qualification, ENB 998 or equivalent
- ALS Provider
- Registered Nurse with current NMC registration (Part 1 Adult / General Level 1 or 2) Or Paramedic or AHP with current HCPC registration
Desirable
- Enrolled in MSc ACP training post as advanced clinical practitioner
- ENB Critical care nursing or Coronary Care qualification
- L7 Respiratory Module
Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Essential
- Evidence of extensive expert professional/clinical knowledge in cardiology supplemented by specialist clinical training and CPD
- Excellent clinical reasoning / clinical decision making
- Excellent diagnostic interpretation and autonomous clinical management
- Effective communicator able to communicate complex and highly sensitive information
- Evidence of effective people management and leadership skills, change and motivation skill
- Can demonstrate assertiveness, tact and diplomacy appropriately
- Ability to think strategically
- Leadership, Influencing and negotiating skills
- Ability to teach/train and assess within both classroom and workplace settings
- Wide-ranging in-depth knowledge of clinical issues in Heart Failure and cardiology
- Excellent ECG interpretation skills
- Excellent organisational and time management skills
- Excellent in-depth knowledge and understanding of cardiac care development
- Understanding of clinical governance objectives and health and safety issues
- Evidence of involvement in the development of programmes of care, protocols, and clinical audit
- Evidence of involvement in policy and practice change
- Evidence of involvement and leadership in teaching and mentoring learners, evaluate competency frameworks for junior staff
- Computer literate
- Experience of application of national audit findings to benchmark practice, peer review and action plan
- Able to collect and analyse data
- Demonstrate an understanding of NCA policies and procedures
- Demonstrate and understanding on the NMC professional code of conduct
- Experience in the application of research to practice
- Awareness of professional issues and vison for Heart Failure service to be adaptive and responsive to change
- Willing to undertake relevant further study as required for the post
- Must be declared fit for work in accordance with Occupational Health screening requirements
- Excellent attendance record
- Able to work independently and as part of a team
- Willingness to work flexibly to deliver the service
- Ability to Travel between hospital sites and to patient homes
- Be able to walk around the hospital site
- Be able to undertake patient observations and monitoring and use relevant equipment safely
- Physically be able to assist patients with activities of daily living and moving and handling
- Utilise highly developed physical skills, dexterity, hand/eye co-ordination for clinical skills e.g., assembling clinical equipment, venepuncture, giving IV injections, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and defibrillation
- Be able to record activity on relevant paper based and IT systems
- Be able to sit and work for periods of time at a desk and with computer and paper-based systems
- Ability to travel to different geographical locations across the Trust footprint in line with service needs
Desirable
- End of life care experience
- End of life care qualification L7
- Breaking Bad news course
- Full UK driving license with willingness to use own car for work purposes
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details
Employer name
Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Rochdale Infirmary
Whitehall Street
Rochdale
Greater Manchester
OL12 0NB
United Kingdom
Employer's website
https://www.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)