Clinical Nurse Specialist for Heart Failure
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 16/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
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 a part-time opportunity for an experienced heart failure specialist or cardiology nurse to improve access to heart failure services. The role involves running and developing diagnostic and treatment pathways, supporting clinical staff, and optimising medical therapy. You will educate and support patients, relatives, and carers to reduce admissions and maximise quality of life. The position requires collaboration with community teams and data collection for audits.
Key responsibilities
- Run and develop diagnostic and treatment pathways for heart failure patients.
- Promote high quality care across the care continuum from tertiary to primary care.
- Support clinical staff in heart failure management plans and make appropriate onward referrals.
- Be involved in optimisation of medical therapy.
- Provide education and support to patients, relatives and carers in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
- Work closely with community heart failure teams and collect data for local and national audits.
Essential criteria
- Registered Professional
- 1st Level Degree
- Evidence of significant professional development with a focus on heart failure
- Evidence of further qualification in Cardiology
- Substantial experience and achievement in nursing cardiac patients
- Experience of managing a patient case load in an NHS setting
- Experience of managing patients with heart failure
- Experience of clinical audit
- Highly developed specialist knowledge underpinned by theory and experience
- Ability to work independently and unsupervised
- Physical assessment and diagnostic skills
- Ability to co-ordinate heart failure pathways
- Good knowledge of cardiac drugs and side effects
- Venepuncture and cannulation skills
- ILS competent
Desirable criteria
- Management module
- Master's degree
- Non medical prescriber
- Research module
- Evidence of developing clinical guidelines and pathways
- ALS
- Recent teaching experience at senior level
- Budgetary experience
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £55,524 – £62,652 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust
Clinical Nurse Specialist for Heart Failure
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to take on a part time role to improve access to heart failure services for Epsom and St Helier. We ideally would like somebody with heart failure experience that is keen to improve the access to specialised care in hospital and assisting in the transition to the community.
Main duties of the job
We are an expanding cardiology team and we are looking for an experienced heart failure specialist or cardiology nurse who wants to help shape the care we deliver.
Working closely with the lead Heart Failure specialist nurse, the Cardiology Matron and the lead Heart Failure Consultant, you will run and develop thediagnostic and treatment pathways for heart failure patients promoting high quality care across the care continuum from tertiary to primarycare, engaging with healthcare professionals across the network.
The post holder will also be required to support clinical staff in heart failure management plans; make appropriate onward referrals for follow up care; be involved in optimisation of medical therapy; provide education and support to patients, relatives and carers in both inpatient and outpatient settings with the aim being to reduce symptoms, prevent unnecessary admissions/readmissio
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