Parkinson Disease Community Nurse Specialist Nurse - Band 7
Contract: Fixed Term/Secondment - 2 years
Are you a Nurse with excellent problem-solving skills, looking for a role as a Community Parkinson Disease Specialist Nurse? Would you like to work in a service that is passionate about improving the care and wellbeing for those living with Parkinson's disease? Look no further!
Whittington Health Adult Community Services are recruiting and looking for an individual with enthusiasm, drive, and a passion for Parkinson's disease, to support the well-established Community Parkinson Disease service.
The service is small and consists of one Parkinson Disease Specialist Nurse Consultant, who covers across acute and community settings.
The successful candidate will act as a highly skilled resource within the field of Parkinson's Disease (PD) to deliver safe and effective interventions, advice, and support for people with Parkinson's disease and their families.
There will be ample opportunity for learning and development in this exciting role. To manage a caseload of patients with PD through the four stages of the illness from diagnosis, maintenance, complex, and palliative, using evidence-based principles to assess individual needs, set and implement programmes of care, and evaluate interventions in both the hospital and community settings.
We welcome applications for this exciting opportunity to join our innovative community team.
Main duties of the job
* Provide specialist advice, support, and education for health professionals in both primary and secondary care settings.
* Participate in planning, developing, and evaluating PD services within the London Borough of Haringey and Islington.
* Contribute to research-based nursing practice and monitor the quality of the service provided. Undertake audit, CPD, teaching, research, and administration.
* Deliver education and training regarding the management of Parkinson's to patients, families, health, and social care professionals in both primary and secondary care, including private and voluntary organisations.
* Manage a caseload of patients with PD through the four stages (diagnosis, maintenance, complex, and palliative), using evidence-based principles to assess individual needs, set and implement programmes of care, and evaluate interventions.
* Deliver an education package regarding evidence-based practice of Parkinson's to all health and social care professionals.
About us
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce that is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief.
The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion, and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
* Work in partnership with people who are affected by Parkinson's Disease to develop a primary care led Parkinson's Disease service which places the patient at the centre.
* Provide clinical care to people with Parkinson's Disease, including patient and carers advice and support, facilitation and advice on access to therapy and other support services, monitoring and adjustment of medication.
* Involved in formulation and monitoring of standards of clinical care, promotion of the availability of relevant services for clients, and ensure that all clinical practice is evidence-based, adhering to national guidelines relating to PD and Parkinson's Plus syndromes including audit of outcomes.
* Develop and establish entry and exit points on integrated care pathways, self-referral mechanisms for patients to access services.
* Various other duties included but not limited to.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
* First level Registered Adult Nurse or AHP (with the NMC).
* Relevant first degree level or working towards qualification.
* Evidence of continued professional development.
Desirable
* Qualified non-medical prescriber.
* Master's level education or equivalent experience.
Skills
Essential
* Leadership and initiative skills.
* Able to manage competing demands and priorities in a changing, complex environment and is personally resilient.
* Able to identify new ways of working to benefit the service and the patient experience.
* Demonstrate an ability to integrate nursing knowledge and skills with the clinical aspects of the job.
* Excellent Teaching / Mentoring skills.
* Commitment to a learning team.
* Proven ability to work autonomously.
* Ability to organise and manage clinics and patient needs.
* Competent IT skills including Microsoft Office apps (Word, Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint).
Desirable
* Independent/Supplementary Prescriber.
Knowledge & Experience
Essential
* Aware of National Guidance for Parkinson Disease.
* Understanding of clinical audit.
* Knowledge of principles of clinical governance.
* Experience in managing PD in an inpatient, outpatient or community setting.
* At least 18 months clinical experience.
* Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team.
* Experience of working in the community.
* Experience of teaching.
* Presentation skills.
Desirable
* Pharmacology knowledge in relation to PD.
* Experience of working independently.
* 3 years post-registration experience within a relevant area.
* Experience participating in audits and clinical research.
* Experience of service development.
Personal and People development
Essential
* Approachable, open and with a positive approach to change.
* Management skills including experience of team leadership and team building initiatives.
* Ability to organise own workload and be responsible for managing time and resources effectively.
* Able to prioritise, organise and coordinate the work of others.
* Articulate and Reliable.
* Self-motivated and autonomous but work collaboratively within a multi-disciplinary and cross-site team.
Communication
Essential
* Excellent interdisciplinary communication skills and ability to facilitate collaborative multidisciplinary working relationships.
* Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to adapt to effectively manage complex and sensitive situations.
Employer details
Employer name
Whittington Hospital NHS Trust
Address
Whittington Health
1st Floor Old Nurses Building, Whittington Health, Magdala Avenue, London N19 5NF
London
N19 5NF
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