Job summary
- Main area
- Neurosurgery
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 290-SCCS-2174
- Employer
- Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trust wide
- Town
- Hammersmith
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 pa inclusive
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/03/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Nurse Specialist - Movement Disorder
Band 7
Fulfil your potential in hospitals that make history:
Charing Cross, Hammersmith, St Mary’s, Queen Charlotte’s & Chelsea and Western Eye.
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career.
We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year.
We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities.
With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education.
We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
Job overview
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is seeking an experienced and motivated Band 7 Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) to join our highly specialised Functional Neurosurgery Service. This is an exciting opportunity to play a pivotal role within a nationally recognised programme supporting patients undergoing Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) and MR-guided Focused Ultrasound (MRgFUS) as part of a complex neurosurgical pathway.
As a leading centre for complex neurosurgery, our Functional Neurosurgery programme is at the forefront of clinical innovation, research and multidisciplinary practice. This post offers the opportunity to work within a progressive and forward-thinking service committed to delivering safe, high-quality, patient-centred care while advancing treatment options for patients with complex movement disorders.
The post holder will provide advanced clinical expertise across the patient pathway, including assessment, education, care coordination and long-term follow-up for patients undergoing functional neurosurgical treatments. Working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, the CNS will act as a key worker for patients and families, ensuring continuity of care and supporting service development within a world-leading neurosurgical centre.
This is a unique opportunity to contribute to the ongoing development of an innovative service delivering outstanding neurosurgical care within a dynamic academic and clinical environment.
Main duties of the job
- Act as the named CNS for patients undergoing functional neurosurgical procedures
- Deliver highly specialist nursing care to patients with movement disorders requiring DBS or MRgFUS
- Provide expert advice and act as a key point of contact for patients, carers and the wider MDT
- Coordinate complex care pathways from referral to long-term follow-up
- Support DBS programming clinics and undertake patient education and symptom monitoring
- Work autonomously while maintaining close collaboration with neurosurgeons, neurologists, neurophysiology, radiology and allied health professionals
- Contribute to service development, audit, research and quality improvement initiatives
- Provide education and support to nursing colleagues and MDT staff
- Promote high standards of patient experience and safety within the team
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.
Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview. .
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.
For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- Teaching and Assessing qualification or equivalent teaching experience
- Post registration experience in a relevant area with experience of change management
Desirable criteria
- Has attained a Degree in management/professional nursing issues
- Leadership qualification
- Non medical prescribing
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience in Neurosurgery/Neurology an d experience in either junior specialty role or team leader/ward management role
- Direct experience in managing DBS/MRgFus patient caseload.
- Experience with managing patient relevant to specialist area
- Ability to work within a team and independently
- Proven teaching and assessing skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching and/or mentorship
Skills/knowledge/ abilities
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate commitment through involvement in Trust wide initiatives/ committees
- Able to demonstrate highly developed specialist knowledge of own patient group
- Knowledge of research and audit including implementation of findings and review of outcomes
- Ability to practice within the scope of the NMC Code of Professional Conduct
- Ability to demonstrate application of the NHS Plan to own sphere of practice
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
- Lucia Gallagher
- Job title
- Lead nurse neurosurgery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07940365410
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