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    Paediatric Epilepsy Nurse - Hereford, United Kingdom - Wye Valley NHS Trust

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    Job summary

    An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our expanding paediatric epilepsy team. We are a small team that covers both acute and community services. The role involves providing specialist support children, young people and their families who have a diagnosis of epilepsy.

    The team support young people to self manage their condition with an emphasis on transition. The team focuses on preventing inappropriate hospital admissions. This role requires an autonomous practitioner who is able to participate in nurse led clinics.

    Main duties of the job

    To work as a key member of the multidisciplinary team around the child and young people who have a diagnosis of epilepsy.

    Plan develop and coordinate care around service users.

    Assess patients, plan and implement care plans based on specialist knowledge of epilepsy.

    To be able to provide education to children, young people, families and other professionals involved in the care plan on epilepsy management.

    About us

    Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

    Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

    We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

    More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

    We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

    Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

    Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right the time.

    Job description

    Job responsibilities

    Please see detailed job description for more information.

    To provide specialist care for families and carers who have a child or young people (CYP) with a diagnosis of epilepsy. The successful applicant will be responsible, with support from the Clinical Lead Nurse, for designing and developing a multi-disciplinary service putting the child and family at the centre of decision making with the aim of equipping young people with the necessary skills to self-manage their condition through the period of transition into adulthood.

    Person Specification

    Education & Qualifications

    Essential

  • Effective registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
  • Specialist qualification eg BPNA PET Level 1 (or willingness to work towards)
  • Nursing Degree (or willingness to work towards) Nurse Prescriber (or willingness to work towards)
  • Recognised teaching qualification eg ENB 998 or equivalent.
  • Desirable

  • Relevant learning disabilities qualification.
  • Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

    Essential

  • Able to perform assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of nursing care.
  • Ability to work autonomously.
  • Thorough and up-to-date knowledge of nursing theory and best practice, particularly within specialty area and the application of this in practice
  • Evidence of involvement in service users' advocacy.
  • Experience

    Essential

  • Significant post qualification experience across a broad range of Children's Nursing Ability to demonstrate relevant effective learning from this experience.
  • Experience of caseload management.
  • Experience of nursing children with Epilepsy.


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