Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent: 7 day Service 8-8pm
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day service 8am - 8pm)
- Job ref
- 372-COM2669
- Employer
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Dean Clough
- Town
- Halifax
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 15/03/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 17/04/2026
Employer heading
Community Heart Failure Specialist Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 6
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics.
We are committed to recruiting to our values. Leading One Culture of Care underpins our values by creating an environment, tone and behaviours across all parts of the Trust that are fundamentally rooted in compassionate care.
We are open to considering a wide range of flexible working arrangements. There are opportunities to flex the days of the week, hours and times of work and place of work including: part-time, job-share, flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home when appropriate. Please talk to us during the interview process to discuss any flexibility that you may require.
We received our Silver Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme which is helping actively promote SaBRE - Supporting Britain’s Reservists and Employers. This means that we provided its statement of intent to support all Defence personnel and we welcome application to work for us.
Our Future Plans
The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded capital funding to invest in local health services at both Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. This is a significant investment and an opportunity to enhance services for our populations in Calderdale and Huddersfield and West Yorkshire for generations to come. To find out more, please visit https://future.cht.nhs.uk/
Job overview
We have a very exciting opportunity to join our integrated Heart Failure Service at Calderdale and
Huddersfield NHS Trust. We are seeking a highly motivated individual with excellent interpersonal
and communication skills. The successful candidate will be responsible for the development of a cohesive management programme for patients with heart failure in line with local and national guidelines, working across acute, community and Hospital at Home settings. The service will operate 7 days a week, with a view to extending hours of 8am to 8pm in the future and requires flexible working within an evolving proactive, dynamic, and committed multidisciplinary Heart Failure Team.
Main duties of the job
The aim of the role is to work autonomously, within a the team, managing own caseload and to identify patients who can be supported on the Heart Failure Virtual Ward, reducing length of stay, preventing unnecessary admissions to hospital, and improving heart failure management and
control with optimisation of evidence-based treatments.
The post holder should be an experienced community practitioner with diagnostic and consultation skills and preferably be a non-medical prescriber or willing to complete the course and will act within their professional boundaries, providing care for the presenting patient, from initial history taking through to treatment.
Working for our organisation
CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.
Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Will work across the hospital with responsibility for patients with heart failure in the inpatient, outpatient, community and Hospital at Home setting.
Will be responsible for the early identification of patients for the Heart Hospital at Home ward from the acute setting and supporting the on-going care for patients whos are actively being managed on the Hospital at Home.
The post holder will take overall responsibility to develop the specialist area of practice in partnership with other members of the specialty team (Lead clinician, Matron, service Lead etc) and will work collaboratively to develop services and quality of care delivered.
The post holder will be expected to act as the patients advocate at all times.
The post holder will carry responsibility for their defined caseloads and offer highly specialist service advise which includes setting the standards of care, the assessment of care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.
The post holder will contribute to achieving the objectives of the role and work within the clinical governance framework.
Will work autonomously managing own clinical caseload and to support the Hospital at Home.
Will use relevant specialist training, knowledge, and expertise to clinically diagnose, assess and deliver evidence-based care through education and advise on self-management
Person specification
Meets all essentional criteria
Essential criteria
- Essential Criteria
Desirable criteria
- Has Cardiology experience
Holds Relevent qulificationa
Essential criteria
- Holds relevant qualification's
Desirable criteria
- Willingness to Work towards Heart Failure Diploma
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clair Jones
- Job title
- Cardiac Rehabilitation / Heart Failure Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07909290265
- Additional information
Stevie Crowther
Heart Failure Team Leader
07909290265
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