Heart Failure Specialist NurseNHS

Job summary

The Coventry and Rugby Heart Failure Team have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated Registered Nurse to join our dedicated team.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your specialist practice while providing high-quality, patient-centred care across acute, community and virtual settings.

The successful candidate will provide expert clinical assessment and ongoing management of patients with heart failure.

The role involves working across multiple locations, including:

• University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire (UHCW)
• Hospital of St Cross
• Coventry Community Services
• Patients' own homes

You will review patients through face-to-face in hospital, virtual clinics, home visits and telephone consultations.

You will work closely with the multidisciplinary team (MDT), GPs, healthcare professionals, patients and carers to ensure safe, effective and personalised care.

If you are an experienced nurse who is passionate about specialist nursing, clinical excellence and improving patient outcomes, we would love to hear from you.

Further Information

For further information or an informal discussion about the role, please contact:

Endip DhesiEmail: [email protected]: 02476968514

Or

Elyse McDonnell

Email: [email protected]

Telephone: 07919949896

Closing date: 11th November 2026Interview date: 26th November 2026

Main duties of the job

• Provide specialist assessment and management of patients with heart failure.
• Support the Heart Failure Nursing Team.
• Develop and implement evidence-based treatment plans.
• Support optimisation of heart failure medication in line with current guidelines.
• Refer patients for cardiac rehabilitation where appropriate.
• Consider and refer patients for cardiac device therapy when indicated.
• Promote patient education, self-management and improved outcomes.
• Liaise effectively with the MDT, GPs, healthcare professionals, patients and carers.
• Promote best practice in heart failure management in accordance with national and local guidelines.

Applicants must have:

• Current Registered Nurse registration.
• Experience with heart failure patients
• Good IT skills.
• Excellent communication and multidisciplinary working skills.
• A driving licence and access to a car, as travel between service locations is required.

Job description

To support patients and carers with stable and unstable heart failure. To promote quality of life, contributing to the prevention of avoidable hospital admissions and readmissions. To contribute to developing robust guidelines and protocols and providing clinical advice and education ensuring seamless pathways of care for patients with heart failure. To support advanced care planning strategies for end stage heart failure patients.

For further details of the role please see the attached job description.

Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

Secondment will be considered for internal candidates If you are successful after interview, you must obtain approval from your current line manager to accept the offer.

Successful applicants will be required to provide an immunisation and vaccination report, from either their current UK occupational health provider or their UK GP.

About us

University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, rated as good by the Care Quality Commission, is one of the largest teaching Trusts in the UK.

We are extremely proud of our employees across our hospital sites, with high quality patient care at the heart of everything we do.

Boasting some of the most modern facilities in Western Europe, the Trust is renowned for being at the forefront of research and innovation as part of its blossoming reputation as a worldwide leader in healthcare.

We are proud to be recognised as a Pathway to Excellence designated organisation - please click the link for further details about this prestigious award. Pathway To Excellence - University Hospitals Coventry & Warwickshire (uhcw.nhs.uk)

By joining our exciting journey, you will form part of a passionate, talented team and will be able to access a wide range of learning and development opportunities. There has never been a better time to join our team.

The Trust is committed to building an organisation that makes full use of the talents, skills, experience, and different perspectives available in our diverse society. We want everyone to feel they are respected, valued, can achieve their potential and receive the most appropriate and relevant care. We will create an environment where the equality and human rights principles of fairness, respect, equality, dignity and autonomy are promoted and are part of the organisation's core values.