NHS
Enhanced Practitioner
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Job Description
- Req#: C9339-25-0366?language=en&page=673&sort=publicationDateDesc
- Professional registration
- PACR
- Ongoing professional development
- Evidence of managing Heart Failure Patients
- Interest in Heart Failure
- Excellent organisation and leadership skills
- Evidence of ongoing learning and development
- Professional registration
- PACR
- Ongoing professional development
- Evidence of managing Heart Failure Patients
- Interest in Heart Failure
- Excellent organisation and leadership skills
- Evidence of ongoing learning and development
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has become available for a passionate and enthusiastic nurse to join the Heart Failure team at North Bristol NHS Trust. This team will deliver safe, effective, and timely clinical intervention to adult inpatients who are acutely unwell or have a new diagnosis of heart failure covering both inpatient and outpatient spells. This nurse led team will act with a high degree of autonomy to support high quality care for acutely unwell patients with heart failure.Practitioners in this team will respond to acute deterioration at an early stage and provide expert knowledge and understanding of patients in acute and chronic heart failure. They will provide an advanced clinical assessment and initiate investigation and clinical intervention to avert further deterioration. They will work in close collaboration with the parent specialty and ward teams to deliver high quality care and will support education of ward staff across the multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
The enhanced practitioners will be supported in developing as autonomous practitioners. They will assess, plan, implement and evaluate individual treatment interventions within the heart failure service and will work in close collaboration with the senior enhanced practitioners in the team. They will already have experience of cardiology more specifically heart failure and will thus bring a range of specialist skills and knowledge. They will continue to develop these skills in this role.
About us
North Bristol NHS Trust employs over 12,000 staff providing healthcare to the residents of Bristol, South Gloucestershire and North Somerset from our award-winning hospital building at Southmead. We are the regional Major Trauma Centre, and an internationally recognised centre of excellence in a range of services and major specialties. Our vision is that by enabling our teams to be the best that they can be, we will provide exceptional healthcare, personally delivered.We commit to treating each patient as an individual with respect and dignity, aiming to deliver excellent clinical outcomes and a first-class experience for everyone who uses our services.North Bristol NHS Trust values all people as individuals. We aim to be an anti-discriminatory organisation and are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We welcome applicants from all underrepresented groups.
Details
Date posted
15 May 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 6
Salary
£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
339-MED3235-LMG
Job locations
Southmead Hospital
Bristol
BS10 5NB
Job descriptionJob description
Job responsibilities
This role will involve working as part of a team, the practitioner will develop the use of autonomous practice, making complex decisions and provide high quality care for patients who have an acute decompensation of know heart failure or have presented with a new diagnosis of heart failure. You will be responsible for an outpatient caseload ensuring their treatment is fully optimised as well as providing support and education for the patient / carer / family.
The practitioner will develop expertise on the use of clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations.
The practitioner will demonstrate leadership skills, resilience, and determination, assisting in the management of situations that are complex or unpredictable under the guidance of the wider team.
For a more detailed comprehensive outline of the job description and main responsibilities see attached.
Job responsibilities
This role will involve working as part of a team, the practitioner will develop the use of autonomous practice, making complex decisions and provide high quality care for patients who have an acute decompensation of know heart failure or have presented with a new diagnosis of heart failure. You will be responsible for an outpatient caseload ensuring their treatment is fully optimised as well as providing support and education for the patient / carer / family.
The practitioner will develop expertise on the use of clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations.
The practitioner will demonstrate leadership skills, resilience, and determination, assisting in the management of situations that are complex or unpredictable under the guidance of the wider team.
For a more detailed comprehensive outline of the job description and main responsibilities see attached.
Person SpecificationPerson Specification
Education
Essential
Skills
Essential
Work Experience
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Education
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Skills
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Work Experience
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Additional informationDisclosure 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
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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).
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).
Employer details
Employer name
North Bristol NHS Trust
Address
Southmead Hospital
Bristol
BS10 5NB
Employer's website
Employer details
Employer name
North Bristol NHS Trust
Address
Southmead Hospital
Bristol
BS10 5NB
Employer's website
About the company
National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom (UK). The founding principles were that services should be comprehensive, universal and free at the point of delivery—a health service based on clinical need, not ability to pay. Each service provides a comprehensive range of health services, free at the point of use for people ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom apart from dental treatment and optical care.
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