Multiple Sclerosis Nurse

Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Multiple Sclerosis Team within Frimley Health Foundation Trust!

We are a well-established team of MS Nurses who have a passion for delivering first class care to people living with multiple sclerosis. We are actively involved in research and keen to develop our service further though new and innovative ways of working to meet the needs of our patients.

You will be working with adults living with MS in an outpatient setting supporting all aspects of their care needs. Home visits will be required with this role alongside running clinics in Outpatients.

Weekend working and bank holidays are not required within this role.

Participation in research will also be required.

• Working within an established MS Nursing Team to provide support to patients living with MS. Aspects of care include supporting the helpline queries, relapse management, advice on symptom management, support with disease modifying therapies, supporting housing/benefit applications etc, offering home visits and running outpatient clinics. Participation in research will also be required.
• To offer clinical advice to ward staff when they are delivering care for people with MS.
• Participation in multidisciplinary team meetings
• Pharmacovigilance
• Management of patients receiving treatment with a disease modifying therapy (DMT)
• Actively participate in research
• Provide education to patients, carers and other health professionals

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered general nurse
• Undertaking or completed further academic study to post graduate diploma level
• Post-registration qualification/ BSc level

• MS Development Module, previously known as The Hitchin Course
• Advanced communication skills course
• Mentorship course

Special Requirements

• To be able to work across all 3 hospital sites, Frimley Park, Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals.
• To be able to independently visit patients in their own homes for clinical review, , so require a driving licence and a car

• To be able to independently visit patients in their own homes for clinical review

Experience

• Demonstrable experience as a Band 5 nurse
• Experience of working with patients who are living with a long-term progressive disease
• Experience in multi-disciplinary team working
• Recognising and interpreting abnormal blood results

• Experience in caring for patients with multiple sclerosis
• Clinical leadership skills
• Research and audit experience
• Experience in running outpatient clinics
• Experience in the delivery of education to patients and health professionals

Knowledge

• Clinical assessment skills and decision making
• Analytical skills and awareness of ethical issues, treatment planning and holistic care
• Can demonstrate effective team working
• Keyboard skills and IT literacy (Word/EXCEL)
• Ability to prioritise and manage caseload

• An understanding of disease modifying therapies (DMT’s)
• Negotiating, influencing and counselling/coaching skills

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.