Heart Failure Nurse Specialist

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and enthusiastic Heart Failure Specialist Nurse to join our multidisciplinary heart failure team at Imperial.

We are an established, integrated heart failure service covering 3 acute hospital sites, one of which has a specialist Heart Assessment Centre. As an integrated service we run community heart failure clinics for our local population as well as managing patients living with heart failure in their own homes.

We cover a diverse population of patients admitted to our hospitals and living in London. We provide specialist support and education for our colleagues managing heart failure patients within both primary and secondary care.

We are committed to improving our heart failure service. We run a remote monitoring service for our heart failure patients and support both a Heart Failure virtual ward and day case diuresis/intravenous iron injections for our heart failure patients.

Ideally we are seeking to recruit a nurse with experience in working autonomously with HF patients, however If you are interested in starting a career in heart failure we are able to offer a band 6 training position with the aim of successfully achieving competence to move to band 7 in one year.

All applicants must reflect a good understanding of the speciality and role as well as a strong commitment towards improving care within heart failure.

Main duties of the job

• To assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care, providing specialist advice and actively seeking evidence based practice which will improve the quality of care and meet the needs of a group of patients.
• Manage episodes of care as own/joint/ shared caseload, discharging patients as per protocol.
• Maintain and update own clinical expertise and contribute as role model to ensure the delivery of nursing care is at highest possible level to meet patient care.
• Develop tools to improve the quality of the service.
• Monitor the quality of nursing care and action audit information to achieve agreed standards and take the lead on customer care initiatives. This will include the development and utilisation of local action plans.
• Takes the lead in ensuring the provision of care is in accordance with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust's polices & procedures.
• Ensure that nursing documentation is maintained to the NMC and Trust standard (including electronic records) and implement audits of records to measure and evaluate care planning.
• To act as patient advocate in line with the NHS plan and to actively apply in depth knowledge of holistic/socio-economic and cultural aspects of the care to clients within your specific speciality, acting as a role model and resource for patients, relatives and staff.
• Identify clinical risks and ensure that appropriate action is taken, in accordance with the Trust Risk Management policy.

About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share.

Details

Date posted: 12 August 2026

Pay scheme: Agenda for change

Band: Band 6

Salary: £47,951 to £65,261 a year pa inclusive

Contract: Permanent

Working pattern: Full-time

Reference number: 290-WCCS-2650

Job locations: St Mary's Hospital, London, W2 1NY, United Kingdom

Job description

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person Specification

Education

Essential

• Registered Nurse
• Post registration relevant qualification
• Teaching and Assessing qualification eg 998 or equivalent teaching experience
• Evidence of further training to enhance scope of practice

Desirable

• Heart Failure Course L7
• Clinical assessment skills training
• Non-Medical prescriber or commitment to undertake
• Advanced communication skills training
• Working towards Masters Degree/ evidence of working at this level

Skills

Essential

• Able to demonstrate highly developed specialist knowledge within heart failure
• Knowledge of heart failure management both within primary and secondary care
• Has a wealth of insight into all aspects of heart failure
• Knowledge of relevant national heart failure guidelines.

Desirable

• Demonstrate commitment through involvement in Trust wide initiatives/ committees.
• Knowledge of research and audit including implementation of findings and review of outcomes
• Up to date knowledge of clinical trials within heart failure
• Experience of writing/developing protocols

Experience

Essential

• Worked within cardiac/cardiothoracic nursing to gain a high level of cardiac experience.
• Confident of the role within the MDT
• Ability to work within a team and independently
• Experience of teaching

Desirable

• Experience of working within heart failure
• Experience of acute and community working
• Able to act up into line manager role if required with support of the wider team.
• Evidence of managing a team

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

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