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Parkinson's Specialist Nurse

Employer
Herefordshire & Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust
Location
Bromsgrove
Salary
£46,148 to £52,809 a year pro rata
Closing date
22 Oct 2024
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Profession
Nurse
Grade
Band 7
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Part Time
If you are looking for an exciting new challenge that will allow you to use your clinical skills to make a difference, there is a fantastic opportunity to join our integrated neurology team. The opportunity has arisen for a nurse to join the Integrated Neurology Team in Worcestershire. We are looking for a nurse who has experience working with Parkinsons patients, who is motivated and passionate about developing their knowledge, skills and management of this caseload.

If you have experience within this speciality and demonstrate a positive attitude, enthusiastic and flexibility then we would like you to be part of our team.
  • Passionate about delivering high quality patient care
  • Motivated and forward thinking
  • Eager to develop your own clinical and management skills
  • Looking for a position which will challenge and stretch you
  • Want to be part of a focused, multidisciplinary team that delivers a high-quality service
  • An enthusiastic, motivated and innovative thinker to become part of a primary care facing community
  • The ability to travel county-wide to deliver services

As a member of the Integrated Neurology Team you will benefit from support with your CPD and Career Progression as well as flexible working, enabling you to maintain work-life balance. Access to LGBT, BAME, Disability and Carers Forums, wellbeing and support programmes and a wide range of NHS discounts.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will be required to work independently in providing education and information, advice, and support to patients and their families/carers in their own home and within clinics, as well as remotely via phone calls or video conferencing. You will also be required to liaise and work closely with other health care professionals in ensuring that care needs are met accordingly, and that care is delivered to a high standard.

You will be working as part of the integrated neurology team providing specialist nursing intervention for patients with Parkinsons disease and associated conditions. The post holder will carry out comprehensive specialist holistic assessments and use their specialist knowledge and skills to help manage the Parkinsons caseload.

The successful candidate will be required to work independently in providing education and information, advice, and support to patients in their own home and within clinics, as well as remotely via phone calls or video conferencing.

You will also be required to liaise and work closely with other health care professionals in ensuring that patient care needs are met accordingly, and that care is delivered to a high standard.

The role with involve partnership working with the consultant neurologists and the integrated neurology team.

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. Its why we were named Large Apprenticeship Employer of the Year award at the 2022 Worcestershire Apprenticeship Awards. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer

27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service

Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours

Flexible and agile working opportunities

Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support

Wide range of staff networks such as LGBT+ and ENRICH (Equality Network for Race Inclusion and Cultural Heritage)

Health service discounts and online benefits including excellent cycle to work and car salary sacrifice schemes

Health and wellbeing opportunities

If you would like to know more, please visit our careers website.

Job description

Job responsibilities

The role will involve working closely with our consultant neurologists at the acute trust and the other Parkinsons nurses. We run nurse led clinics across several sites in Worcestershire and we are looking at developing our multidisciplinary clinics. The role will sit within the supportive structure of the Integrated Neurology service of specialist nurses and therapists.

For full details of the duties and criteria for the role please refer to the job description and person specification attached.

Person Specification

Knowledge

Essential

  • Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload
  • Expert nursing skills and a clear understanding of Parkinsons Disease
  • An ability to lead developments in practice
  • A commitment to working in partnership with patients/carers
  • An understanding of multidisciplinary issues and a commitment to multidisciplinary working


Qualifications

Essential

  • RGN/RNLD
  • Degree
  • Clinical Masters qualification or a combination of qualifications and experience to an equivalent level in a relevant discipline
  • Independent non-medical prescriber (V300) OR commitment to commence V300 within 1 year of starting in post
  • Relevant further professional development particularly in relation to the patient group (neurology or learning disabilities)
  • I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.


Desirable

  • Management qualification
  • Leadership qualification
  • Masters level courses relating to the management of neurological disease/Parkinsons Disease


Experience

Essential

  • Evidence of continuous professional development
  • Experience of working in both clinic and domiciliary setting
  • Relevant Neurological experience in a position of responsibility Band 6, or above within the last 6 years


Desirable

  • Previous PD nursing experience / or Neurological Conditions


Additional Criteria

Essential

  • Ability to meet the travel requirements of the post


Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Princess Of Wales Community Hospital

Stourbridge Road

Bromsgrove

Worcestershire

B61 0BB

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C9798-0776

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