Parkinson’s Disease Nurse Specialist
Job overview
To develop and deliver a specialist community-based service for patients with Parkinson’s Disease (PD), acting as an expert resource in PD by working closely with patients, carers, consultants, general practitioners, therapists, social services and other stakeholders across primary and secondary care.
Aim to minimise the effect of PD on patients’ lives by providing crisis intervention, stabilising conditions, preventing unnecessary A&E attendances and hospital admissions, and decreasing length of stay.
Work with the specialist teams to develop and implement a NICE guidance compliant service that supports multi-disciplinary teams caring for PD patients by providing education and training to multi-disciplinary teams in the best practice management of PD.To work with the Service Management Team in providing leadership management of Parkinson’s Disease Services
Main duties of the job
To work autonomously to deliver Parkinson’s specialist clinical care appropriate to the needs of the patient group and based on principles that are evidence-based and which enhance the quality of patient care.
To undertake comprehensive assessments of complex Parkinson’s patients with co-morbidities, including physical examination, and to develop treatment plans for patients using investigative and analytical skills, and to formulate individualised management and treatment plans using clinical reasoning.
To act as an autonomous and specialist practitioner and be responsible for leading and managing a clinical caseload of patients with Parkinson’s disease and advise and support the wider MDT.
Manage a caseload of patients with varying PD problems, providing patients and families with information on secondary prevention, education, advice and encouragement, maintain and record accurate documentation for all patients.
To work in a variety of clinical areas, including patients' homes and outpatient clinics.
To work as an autonomous practitioner accepting clinical responsibility for a specialised caseload of patients and to organise this effectively and efficiently about clinical priorities and use of time.
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our service user’s wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the Trust and local induction to introduce you to the role 0-19 services.
- Bespoke housing is available for key workers within central London: https://www.sharetobuy.com/
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support, and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Persons Specification.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.**
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria- RN Level 1 registration with the NMC
- Post registration Parkinson’s qualification or equivalent experience
- Teaching/Mentorship qualification or equivalent experience
- Possession of a degree or equivalent
- Hold current registration as an Independent non-medical prescriber with the NMC.
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of working with Parkinson’s patients
- Experience of working within a community setting.
- Demonstrates ability to develop new initiatives.
- Demonstrates ability to managing change
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria- Understanding of the management of patients with Parkinson’s Disease
- Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing.
- Ability to motivate self and others.
- Ability to make decisions and prioritise actions.
- Ability to be proactive and resourceful.
- A working knowledge of clinical governance and evidence-based practice.
- Undertake NMP training.
- Excellent documentation skills
- Knowledge awareness of recent NHS policies/NICE guidelines/DoH agenda
- Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the holistic needs of the client group.
- Computer skills i.e. Word, data- bases email, internet
Other
Essential criteria- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010)Friendly and approachable.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)
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