Clinical Nurse Specialist- Epilepsy in Bolsover

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CRH offers a wide range of exciting and rewarding opportunities for people who are passionate about providing exceptional patient care.With more than 350 different careers on offer there is a job for you no matter what your interests, skills, or qualifications.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced clinical nurse specialist in childrens epilepsy to join our well established and supportive epilepsy team based at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

The successful applicant will join the specialist nursing team in delivering the highest standards of epilepsy nursing care to children , young people and their family within the North Derbyshire area. This will be delivered through a variety of ways including outpatients clinics, inpatient contacts on the childrens ward or community settings such as homes and schools.

Main duties of the job

We are looking for an individual who has a wealth of experience in working with children and young people diagnosed with epilepsy. The successful applicant will be registered childrens nurse who is passionate about providing high quality epilepsy nursing care and support to children, young people and their family.

You will have the ability to work as part of the epilepsy team and autonomously where required, within the parameters of clinical guidelines/polices and scope of professional practice.

The successful applicant will work collaboratively, providing specialist epilepsy advice to other agencies including social care, education and wider health colleagues. you will be required to organise your own workload, whilst considering epilepsy team and other service demands.

The successful candidate will be a non-medical prescriber or have a willingness to work towards this within an agreed timescale.

Working for our organisation

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a well performing Foundation Trust serving a population of around 441,000 across the Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derbyshire Dales, North Amber Valley, High Peak and North East Derbyshire districts. With a workforce of around 3,800 staff .

We are committed to working with our partners in health and social care to deliver long term financial sustainability and resilience in our performance to ensure we provide high quality services and excellent patient care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job description and Person Specification in the attachments. This document contains a full detailed description of the role and what the main responsibilities and duties are along with the criteria that are required.

Person specification

Qualifications

• 1st level degree or equivalent experience
• 1st level registered Children’s Nurse
• Epilepsy specialist related qualification (for example BPNA Paediatric Epilepsy Training)
• V300 Non-medical nurse prescriber qualification (or willing to work towards within an agreed time scale)
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Advanced communication course/qualification
• Master’s degree level learning or prepared to work towards
• Epilepsy specialist course at degree or diploma level
• Community Nursing degree (or equivalent)

Experience

• Significant post registration experience working as a CNS for children and young people with epilepsy
• Experience of managing a defined caseloads and prioritising care
• Ability to conduct nurse led clinics
• Awareness of quality assurance/peer review process
• Management and leadership experience
• MDT/multiagency working within other settings including acute, community, primary and tertiary health care. Able to deal with complex and difficult emotional situations
• Change management
• Awareness of quality assurance/peer review process

Skills

• Sound negotiation skills, with the ability to deal with difficult or challenging situations.
• Understanding of confidentiality and information governance with excellent record keeping
• Audit experience and subsequent quality improvement
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Awareness of national guidelines/policy for children and young people with epilepsy.
• Experience of running nurse led clinics
• Experience of using system one
• Experience of delivering epilepsy specific educational sessions for patient/family, educational & social care colleagues and wider MDT
• Writing reports

Personal Attributes

• Professional, positive attitude, self-motivated
• Able to manage and organise own workload with conflicting priorities
• Ability to work as part of a team and autonomously
• Able to work under pressure
• Proactive in the continued development of the service Adaptable to meet service needs
• Full Driving Licence, for disabled applicants’ alternative arrangements may be arranged, if necessary. Willing to travel distances for community visits or dedicated epilepsy clinic

Demonstrate Proud to Care

• Compassion, Ambition, Respect, Encouragement

Flexible Working

If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.

UK Points-based immigration system

Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .

It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.

Communications

Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.

If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.

Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.

This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.

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