This is an exciting opportunity to develop your specialist nursing skills and join an established community Parkinson's specialist nurse service in Trafford. You will be working in alongside a Highly Specialist Parkinson's nurse with significant experience.

The service sits within the Trafford Community stroke and Neurorehabilitation Team portfolio, and therefore has close links to the Neuro rehabilitation Pathway, which includes Physiotherapy, Occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, Clinical psychology, Dietetics, a Neurorehabilitation Nurse and Social worker.

Main duties of the job

The Community Parkinson's Specialist nurse main duties will include:

• Holistic assessment and prescription of complex management plans for people with Parkinson's either as part of routine condition reviews or in the presence of an identifieddeterioration
• Support patients and their relatives when newly diagnosed with Parkinson's
• Support other health professionals with specialist advice and support in the management of Parkinson's patients in their services.

About us

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We're creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you'll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We've also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We're proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What's more, we're excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading. So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Essentials Guide that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how we care for you as you care for others. Most importantly, it also contains critical information youll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.

Diversity Matters

MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.

Were looking forward to hearing from you!

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Qualified to practice as a RGN

Desirable

• postgraduate training

Experience

Essential

• Relevant post registration experience with older people and parkinsons patients
• Able to work as part of a multi-professional, multiagency team
• Able to work as an independent practitioner

Desirable

• Experience of working in the community

Skills

Essential

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Problem solving skills
• Able to make sound clinical decisions
• To work to time pressures as part of this caseload management
• To liaise with all health and social care colleagues
• To carry out risk assessments to ensure safe working conditions and practice

Desirable

• Confidence to lead where appropriate

Knowledge

Essential

• Aware of the current NHS initiatives
• Awareness of national and local Parkinson's guidelines and evidence base

personal qualities

Essential

• Full current driving license and access to a car for work

Employer details

Employer name

Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Sale Waterside

Sale

M337ZF

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