Clinical Nurse Specialist Heart Failure

• The Lead Nurse CNS role for heart failure in the H@H will incorporate the dimensions of expert clinical practice, education, leadership, management and research. The post holder will be required: • Liaise with all key members of the multidisciplinary team to advise and support colleagues in the delivery of specialised patient care across professional boundaries within a virtual ward setting. • To work autonomously to deliver specialist clinical care appropriate to the needs of the patient group and based on principles that are research-based and enhance the quality of patient care. • To undertake nurse-led care and to be responsible for excellent standards of nursing care to patients through the planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating nurse-led clinics and services. • Line-manage clinical nurse specialists within speciality and across boundaries. • To lead and support with specialist nursing knowledge the development and implementation of programmes of nursing care for individual patients and the client group as a whole. • To contribute to the facilitation of the planning, delivery and evaluation of care pathways for a designated group of patients. • To contribute to training and education within specialist area. • To promote an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through reviewing the evidence base and embedding this in practice through engagement in research activities, including QI work. • Act as a visible role model and expert practitioner. Job description Job responsibilities • The Lead Nurse CNS role for heart failure in the H@H will incorporate the dimensions of expert clinical practice, education, leadership, management and research. The post holder will be required: • Liaise with all key members of the multidisciplinary team to advise and support colleagues in the delivery of specialised patient care across professional boundaries within a virtual ward setting. • To work autonomously to deliver specialist clinical care appropriate to the needs of the patient group and based on principles that are research-based and enhance the quality of patient care. • To undertake nurse-led care and to be responsible for excellent standards of nursing care to patients through the planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating nurse-led clinics and services. • Line-manage clinical nurse specialists within speciality and across boundaries. • To lead and support with specialist nursing knowledge the development and implementation of programmes of nursing care for individual patients and the client group as a whole. • To contribute to the facilitation of the planning, delivery and evaluation of care pathways for a designated group of patients. • To contribute to training and education within specialist area. • To promote an innovative and progressive attitude to the continual improvement of patient care through reviewing the evidence base and embedding this in practice through engagement in research activities, including QI work. • Act as a visible role model and expert practitioner.