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Clinical Nurse Specialist - Epilepsy
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent: Monday to Friday
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
164-7267145
Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Queens Medical Centre
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
13/07/2025 23:59

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Clinical Nurse Specialist - Epilepsy

Band 7

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for an experienced, enthusiastic registered children's nurse to work within the Nottingham Children's Epilepsy Team.

The successful candidate will join a team of other specialist nurses caring for children with epilepsy.  You will be hospital based with a responsibility to see children in inpatient and outpatient settings and to liaise with families at home.

Main duties of the job

In addition to the below summary you need to familiarize yourself with full Job Description and Person Specification documents attached to this advert.

You will be a clinical and professional role model with a passion for the delivery of high quality clinical care and the support and development of others. You will be an effective team player but also able to plan and organise your own workload, possess excellent communication skills, and an ability to teach families and health professionals. You will be working as part of a dynamic and forward thinking multi-professional team, offering key opportunities to develop your career as a nurse specialist within this rapidly expanding specialty.

Working for our organisation

‘With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.’

 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The successful candidate will work as a specialist nurse within an established multi-professional team caring for children and young people with epilepsy.

You will be hospital based supporting complex in-patient care and facilitating discharge plans for the patient group. Much of the work is undertaken on an outreach basis by nurse-led telephone clinics providing clinical advice and support to families caring for children with long term conditions at home. You will also support nurse-led and multi-professional outpatient clinics.

Person specification

Physical skills

Essential criteria
  • Physically able to perform the full range of duties including sitting for long periods of the shift and managing computer/electronic devices
  • Demonstrate dexterity and accuracy in undertaking clinical skills; use of equipment and documentation
  • Able to undertake patient/non-patient manual handling manoeuvres

Training and Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Current 1st level NMC Registration - RSCN or RN (child qualified)
  • First level health related degree or working towards this
  • Recognised Teaching/Assessing qualification
  • Non-medical prescribing course or commitment to undertake
  • Evidence of ongoing continual professional development within the speciality area
Desirable criteria
  • Master's Degree in child health related studies
  • BPNA PET 1-3 Epilepsy Course
  • Leadership qualification
  • Good clinical practice (GCP) Training or commitment to undertake
  • Counselling qualification
  • Assessing and mentoring training

Experience

Essential criteria
  • Significant post registration experience /professional development/management experience.
  • Can demonstrate professional autonomy and effective decision making skills when managing a caseload of children and parent/carers with Chronic illness/Paediatric Epilepsy needs
  • Experience of teaching and assessing competency with a range of professionals and parent/carers
Desirable criteria
  • Working as an Epilepsy Specialist Nurse or similar nurse led elements
  • Counselling patients/families
  • Experience of managing risk, handling clinical incidents and complaints
  • Dealing with complex safeguarding situations
  • Audit, Research, Service improvement experience
  • Presenting at meetings/conferences
  • Evidence of writing for publication

Communication and Relationship Skills

Essential criteria
  • Experience of initiating and implementing change effectively
  • Ability to work as a member of the Multidisciplinary Team: collaborating with, negotiating with and influencing the work of others across a range of disciplines and on own initiative
  • Excellent oral and written communicator including report writing and presentational skills and conveying sensitive information to others in an empathetic manner
  • Able to articulate, discuss /receive relevant clinical information to/from a multi-professional audience including highly complex information and implement plans for development
  • Able to maintain accurate, timely written/electronic patient records and documents
  • IT skills – ability to operate data systems and Microsoft Office skills
Desirable criteria
  • Leadership experience
  • Experience of negotiating and influencing
  • Experienced in using hospital database systems

Analytical and Judgement skills

Essential criteria
  • Act autonomously in decision making but refer/discuss with other members of the Team as necessary when own limitations have been recognised
  • Ability to challenge decisions to ensure patient safety
  • Demonstrate confidence in assessing, planning, delivering, prioritising and evaluating patient care
  • Able to recognise and respond to problems / situations/clinical need and ensure that effective interventions are put in place
  • Able to critically analyse and evaluate audit/research findings and apply to clinical practice
  • Recognition of own level of competence and limitations and ability to communicate these to appropriate staff
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrate knowledge of current issues related to the NHS and specifically to Paediatric Epilepsies
  • Able to critically analyse and evaluate audit/research findings and apply to clinical practice

Planning and organisation skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to work without supervision, using good organisational, time management skills and effective resource management
  • Ability to prioritise a complex caseload and act quickly to emergency and urgent situations within an unpredictable work environment
Desirable criteria
  • Initiate changes in practice

Other requirements specific to the role (e.g. be able to drive or work shifts

Essential criteria
  • Demonstrates enthusiasm, motivation, confidence and reliability for the job role
  • Adaptable and receptive to change
  • Adopt flexibility in working hours to meet service needs
  • Ability to work within chaotic and unpredictable situations and be able to focus children and their parent/carers on relevant issues
  • Ability to lead, manage own resiliency and motivate self and others
  • Commitment to implementing quality focused patient care

Commitment to Trust Values and Behaviours

Essential criteria
  • Must be able to demonstrate behaviours consistent with the Trusts "We are here for you" behavioural standards

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Trust IDApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyAge positiveDisability confident leaderArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardMindful employer.  Being positive about mental health.NHS Rainbow badgeadded for NUH

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.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Emma Walker
Job title
Children's Hospital Matron
Email address
[email protected]
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