Inpatient Parkinson’s Disease Nurse Specialist

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Inpatient Parkinson’s Disease Nurse Specialist

NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area Inpatient Parkinson's disease nurse specialist Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 382-MEC58-26

Site Blackpool teaching hospitals Town Blackpool Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 23/10/2026 23:59

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.

We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.

We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.

Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.

Job overview

We are seeking a highly motivated and compassionate senior nurse with a genuine interest in Parkinson’s disease to join our small team providing expert care for patients living with PD. This is an exciting opportunity to provide a high standard of care and support for our patients., ensuring the highest standards of clinical practice and patient experience.

As a specialist nurse you will act as a clinical expert, advocate, educator and point of contact for patients, families, carers and healthcare professionals supported by the wider PD team. You will work closely with medical, nursing, therapy, pharmacy and community teams to optimise patient outcomes and promote evidence-based Parkinson’s care across the organisation.

You will be supported by our specialist Parkinson’s disease team led by our Consultant geriatrician and consultant nurse

Main duties of the job

The inpatient Parkinson’s disease specialist nurse provides expert clinical leadership and specialist nursing care for patients with Parkinson’s disease during hospital admission. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to ensure timely assessment, optimal symptom management, safe medication administration and high quality patient centred care. They will act as a key resource for patients, families, carers and healthcare professionals, promoting best practice, delivering education and training, and supporting service development to improve outcomes and experiences for our patients living with Parkinson’s disease. They will provide specialist advice across the Trust for teams who refer patients through the Ereferral system. They will work closely with the community Parkinson’s disease nurse specialists and provide cross cover when needed. They will have an interest in quality improvement and will play a key part in driving initiatives like 'Get It On Time' forward trustwide.

Working for our organisation

The Parkinson's team are a small but highly experienced and compassionate group led by our dynamic consultant geriatrician and supported by our nurse consultant. The team includes the community Parkinson's disease nurse specialist who support our patients in their own homes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Deliver specialist assessment, management and support for patients living with Parkinson’s disease both inpatients and in the community.

Provide expert advice on Parkinson’s medication management, including the importance of timely administration.

Support patients, families and carers through education, counselling and care planning.

Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to develop and implement individualised care plans for patients.

Provide education and training to healthcare professionals to enhance knowledge and confidence in Parkinson’s disease.

Assist in the facilitation of safe discharge planning and effective communication with community and specialist services.

Person specification

Education and Qualifications

• First level Registered Nurse with current registration with the NMC
• Leadership training (LEO/LPC) or equivalent experience
• Teaching qualification
• Prescribing/ability to work within PGDs
• Specialist Diploma level/ specialist practitioner or equivalent
• Evidence of CPD in management of Long Term Conditions
• Non-medical V300 prescribing or willingness to undertake.
• Post graduate qualification in a health related topic
• Specialist qualification in neurological nursing

Experience and Knowledge

• Relevant post registration work within acute, mental health or community and primary care nursing fields.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary and/or multi agency team.
• Evidence of ability to direct and co-ordinate programmes of care, working autonomously and collaboratively.
• Evidence of being an innovative practitioner.
• A minimum of 2 years at Band 6 or above.
• Experience of self care/ self management.
• Managing cognitive impairment.
• Post registration experience of patients with neurological diagnoses.

Skills and Ability

• Evidence of ability to manage highly complex clinical situations within a defined caseload
• Evidence of ability to work proactively with A&E, GP’s and social care colleagues to prevent hospital admission
• Evidence of the ability to teach/disseminate knowledge
• Evidence of ability to assess and plan individual care needs in partnership with patients/their carers
• Experience of providing and receiving highly complex, highly sensitive or highly contentious information, where there are significant barriers to acceptance using persuasive, motivational, negotiating, training, empathic or re-assurance skills
• Evidence of ability to work across the multi-disciplinary health & social care team
• Evidence of ability to make decisions autonomously, but liaise closely with other care providers within the sector
• Contribute to collection and evaluation of data from self or others and to ensure accurate recording in relation to performance targets
• Evidence of experience of embracing and implementing change to provide quality health outcomes
• Evidence of using IT systems
• Evidence of being able to communicate both verbally and in writing at all levels in a multidisciplinary forum and with users and carers
• Ability to identify high risk patients
• Proven team working and facilitation skills
• Ability to promote multi professional working
• Understanding of clinical governance/risk management frameworks
• Knowledge of primary/social care systems
• Car owner/driver.
• Evidence of advanced clinical assessment skills
• Writing of policy/procedures relating to care

Any invitation to interview will be sent to the email account stated on your application form.

If the role you have applied for requires a Disclosure and Barring Services (DBS) check we will administer this as part of your pre-employment checks. Please note, you will be required to repay the cost on appointment. This will be collected via a salary deduction. You can choose whether to pay this over 1-3 months from your salary or as a one-off payment on commencement in post. The level of check required depends on the role that you have been offered. Currently the charges are - Basic DBS check £24, Standard DBS check £24 and Enhanced DBS check £45.

You are encouraged where possible, to register for the DBS update service. This is an annual registration fee of £15. By registering for the update service you will not have the additional cost of repeated disclosures.

Should you withdraw your application, you may be required to reimburse the cost of the DBS check.

DBS checks remain free of charge for volunteer positions.

By submitting an application for this vacancy you are confirming your agreement to the above in the event you are successfully appointed.

The DBS Code of Practice can be accessed here .

Please ensure that you read the Person Specification attached below as your application will be judged against this.

Please note that every effort will be made to keep the vacancy live until published closing date, though there may be instances where such interest is generated, that for administrative reasons the post may close earlier.

Please note that in line with national NHS guidelines this Trust operates a strict non-smoking policy. Members of staff are not permitted to smoke on Trust premises or grounds at any time nor take breaks during working hours for the purposes of smoking.

The Trust does not offer interview expenses to shortlisted candidates unless indicated in the advert.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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