Heart Failure Nurse Specialist Bournemouth, England
Job description
This is an exciting opportunity to join the UHD heart failure team to help set up and provide a new heart failure project in the community. You will be utilising the brand new Astra Zeneca Cardiovascular Renal and Metabolism (AZ CVRM) dashboard tool to identify undiagnosed and undertreated cases of heart failure on GP registers. Once identified the intention would be to establish patients on heart failure medication and optimise doses as per guidelines.
The aim of this heart failure specialist nurse service is to work across primary and secondary care teams, improve communication, ensure a more integrated and seamless care pathway for patients and in so doing, reduce admissions and increase survival. The service will cover East Dorset, and will integrate with the other provider of specialist heart failure nursing services, Dorset Healthcare University Foundation Trust (DHUFT). Training and support will be provided by the RBCH heart failure consultant and nursing team.
You will work closely with existing community heart failure providers to further develop and implement shared care pathways promoting multi-disciplinary care.
You will have experience in the management of patients with Cardiac conditions requiring timely intervention and will be able to demonstrate excellent communication skills. The position will be based both in primary and secondary care, with the majority of time on RBCH site, shift patterns and times will vary according to the needs of the service.
