Heart Failure Specialist Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 28/08/2026
- Closes
- 13/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a skilled and motivated nurse to join the Oxleas Heart Failure Service, a dynamic and award-winning team. The role involves providing expert community cardiac care to residents in the London Borough of Bexley, including advanced clinical assessment, medication reviews, and patient education. The post holder will manage their own caseload, work closely with multidisciplinary teams, and contribute to the end-of-life care of heart failure patients. A full driving licence and suitable vehicle are required for this community-based role.
Essential criteria
- Degree level cardiac qualification
- Training in cardiac care
- Working within cardiac care
- Assisting in audit
- MDT working
Desirable criteria
- Heart Failure experience
- Community/Primary care experience
- Teaching staff or patients
- Computer literate
- Ability to assess health needs
- Clinical skills
- Knowledge of heart failure management
- Knowledge of heart disease
- Personal attributes
- Ability to handle difficult situations (emotional/distressed patients and relatives)
- Can plan own workload
- Degree level cardiac qualification
- Training in cardiac care
- Working within cardiac care
- Assisting in audit
- MDT working
- Heart Failure experience
- Community/Primary care experience
- Teaching staff or patients
- Computer literate
- Ability to assess health needs
- Clinical skills
- Knowledge of heart failure management
- Knowledge of heart disease
- Personal attributes
- Ability to handle difficult situations (emotional/distressed patients and relatives)
- Can plan own workload
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £45,953 – £54,254 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Job summary
Oxleas Heart Failure Service is a dynamic, highly experienced & award-winning service. This is an exciting opportunity for a highly skilled & motived nurse to join our team & develop as a heart failure specialist nurse.
This is a community based role caring for residents with heart failure living in the London Borough of Bexley. Care is provided in both clinic & home environments.
This post is ideal for a suitably skilled & trained cardiac nurse who is keen to develop as a heart failure nurse. You will be supported in this post to develop skills such as advanced clinical assessment, medication reviews & optimisation, patient education & monitoring. You will also be involved in the end of life care of the heart failure patient.
You will need excellent clinical & communication skills & an ability to work with patients with diverse health & social needs. The post holder will work closely with members of the wider multi-disciplinary team in primary & acute health care settings. The post holder will also work closely with the Cardiac Rehabilitation Team to ensure patients are provided with sufficient support with their cardiac diagnosis.
This a community post requiring travel across the Borough, the post holder should hold a full driving licence & suitable vehicle for work purposes.
Please note Oxleas posts are subject to a 3 month probation period.
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