Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Main tasks

a) Perform advanced assessments, where appropriate to the profession, utilising specialist tools, and evidence-based methods to support diagnosis and treatment planning.

b) Routinely consult with primary/secondary/community and other agencies involved in the management of patients with specialist needs.

c) To manage caseloads ensuring a timely response to patients and colleagues/partners.

d) To ensure that you are working to agreed service specifications and specialist standards of care.

e) To prepare performance reports in line with agreed service key performance indicators.

f) To provide timely specialist advice and support to patients, their relatives, and carers, other SCFT staff and our colleagues and partners in primary/secondary and third sector organisations.

g) To design, deliver and evaluate education and training programmes delivered to patients, staff, and partners.

h) To work as a specialist member of the MDT ensuring specialist clinical support is accessible and responsive to patients, their carers, and colleagues.

i) Promote, monitor, and maintain best practice standards and health, safety and security within the specialist service.

Main responsibilities

a) To be responsible for a caseload of patients with MND, acting as the main point of contact for the patient, families and carers

b) Conduct advanced clinical assessments within your professional scope to support differential diagnosis and initiate treatment plans.

c) To identify, develop and review policies within MND, benchmarking the service against NICE guidance relevant to a range of neurological conditions. To work within SCFT policies and guidance

d) To organise and prioritise specialty service projects assisting senior service managers in the development of the specialist service

e) Act as a mentor and/or clinical educator to junior team members, students, and support staff in line with your professional registration requirements.

f) To support the effective use of resources within the specialist neuro service by contributing to informed financial decision-making. This includes working collaboratively with the designated budget holder to support financial planning, cost improvement initiatives, and service efficiencies. The post holder is also responsible for ensuring the appropriate registration, maintenance, and safe use of equipment, including the upkeep of asset and maintenance registers relevant to their area of responsibility. To work with the trust research & development dept and partners in conducting and evaluating research and audit activity within the speciality

g) To work across other services within SCFT in response to operational challenges ensuring practice is within sphere of competence i) Where the post holder holds a valid Independent or Supplementary Prescribing qualification (e.g., for nurses, physiotherapists, or pharmacists), they may undertake prescribing responsibilities in line with their professional competence, scope of practice, local clinical guidelines, and Trust policy. Prescribing must relate only to patients within the practitioner’s own Community Neuro Specialist Practitioner caseload. Non-medical prescribers (NMPs) remain personally accountable for their prescribing decisions and are responsible for maintaining safe practice, staying up to date, and working strictly within their individual level of clinical competence.