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An exciting opportunity has arisen for a dynamic and innovative nurse to join NHS Fife’s Community Cardiac Specialist Nurse Team in this new role as an Advanced Clinical Nurse Specialist (ACNS) for Heart Failure.
The Heart Failure Liaison Nurse Service provides holistic and evidenced based specialist care to people diagnosed with heart failure across Fife. You will participate in the ongoing development, implementation and evaluation of the HF clinical service thereby improving the management, treatment and support of patients with HF, and their carers/families. The service aims to support self management, improve quality of life and reduce unnecessary hospital admission / re-admission. The service provides seamless care between the primary care and acute care settings.
You will be required to either:
• Be an experienced heart failure specialist nurse with a non medical prescribing qualification and have undertaken Level 11 qualifications in clinical assessment & decision making, chronic heart failure and palliative care in heart failure.
Or
• Be an experienced nurse with significant cardiology experience, educated to degree level with evidence of recent CPD and willing to undertake the qualifications listed above. This will be done under Annex 21.
You will require excellent communication skills and be able to work as a member of the wider Health and Social Care Team with the ability to work autonomously utilising your own initiative, clinical judgement and decision making. As this is a community post you will also be required to travel across Fife.
Candidates will be required to successfully complete the appropriate qualification/s or training as outlined within the Annex 21 competency framework prior to progressing to band 7. Trainees are paid a percentage of the pay band maximum for the qualified rate which is dependent on the duration of the training period (see Terms and Conditions).
Candidates who meet the full requirements of the person specification for band 7 will commence payment at band 7 with no requirement to progress through the competency framework.
For informal enquiries, please contact Rebecca Robertson, Team Leader on 01592 729461 or Anne McEwan, Team Leader on 01383 565166.
A requirement of this post is to become a member of the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme Prior to appointment.
NHS Fife is legally obliged to ensure all its employees are legally entitled to work in the United Kingdom. All applicants are required to confirm their right to work in the UK in their application. If you are not a United Kingdom (UK), European Community (EC) or European Economic Area National please state the visa category under which you are legally entitled to work in the UK on your application form and the expiry date of your leave to remain in the UK.