Heart Failure Specialist Practitioner - Derby, United Kingdom - Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust

Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust
Derbyshire Community Health Services NHS Foundation Trust
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Derby, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Due to further funding from NHSE, we now have vacancies for 3 Heart Failure Specialist Practitioners to work within the heart failure/virtual ward teams for 12 months.

Our heart failure service is looking for a highly motivated practitioners to join our very enthusiastic and busy team.


This is an ideal opportunity to develop skills and interest within the heart failure speciality and to gain experience for further development.


We have 3 posts available - 2 posts based at Royal Derby Hospital (South) and 1 post at Chesterfield Royal hospital (North).


The aim of these posts is to improve inpatient care for patients with heart failure and reduce length of stay and hospital readmissions.

We are a proactive, integrated team that works across Acute and Community settings.


We also have an integrated, tele-health team, using technology (telehealth), to support patients and have a dedicated Ambulatory heart Failure unit delivering parenteral diuretics and Iron therapy for heart failure patients along with cardiology virtual ward delivering hospital care at home.

Please specify which post you wish to be considered for ( or both). If you wish to be considered for either site then you will only be required to have one interview.

This post is multi-faceted and involves working predominately within the Royal Derby Hospital or Chesterfield Royal hospital

However, we also review patients in the community (home visits/clinics) at times.

Within the acute trust, you will be reviewing patients who have been admitted to hospital with heart failure symptoms. The role works provides in-reaching to hospital wards, within the virtual ward and ambulatory service (south)

We aim to prevent avoidable admissions and support patients admitted with heart failure and support early discharges.


We work closely with the cardiac physiologists for device management and have weekly MDT's with the heart failure cardiologists at Royal Derby Hospital and monthly MDT's at Chesterfield Royal hospital.


We also link in with other specialities for MDT's so ap art from working closely with the cardiologists and physiologists we work closely with the respiratory, renal, palliative care and endocrine teams to support patient care.


If you consider yourself to be dynamic, enthusiastic, dedicated and able to work on your own initiative but as part of a team, then please do apply.

We look forward to welcoming you to our team

The service operates over 7 days. This includes BH and weekends.


It is Trust policy that for posts that are for a time limited period, applicants who are currently employed by an NHS organisation will only be appointed on a secondment basis and should have approval from their line manager this is possible before applying.

Applicants who are not employed by an NHS organisation, will receive a fixed term contract.


Derbyshire Community Health Services has been rated as an outstanding trust by the Care Quality Commission; we have achieved this by providing high quality patient care within an inclusive organisation that works together and shows care and compassion for each other.


There has never been a more exciting time to join us as one of the largest specialist community NHS providers in the country one that is also among the very best NHS employers as voted by its own staff and by CQC.


The way the NHS works is changing; care outside of traditional hospital settings is quickly becoming a much larger part of what the NHS does.


As a leading community provider we are at the forefront of this exciting future, joining-up services in local communities to better meet the individual needs of our patients.

DCHS is a top performing NHS Trust that strives for innovation and improvement for the service and individuals that work within it


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Patients are reviewed face to face within the patients' home and clinic settings and virtually via telephone and video consultations*.


Within Royal Derby Hospital, you will provide active management to patients requiring IV diuretics within the ambulatory HF unit, review patients that have been admitted to hospital and review patients at home following early supported discharge.

Within Chesterfield Royal hospital, you will provide in reach to the wards and review patients within the community

Provide specialist advice, support and education to other health care professionals in the management and treatment of heart failure.
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