Clinical Nurse Specialist

You will be required to provide specialist nursing skills, knowledge and expertise to patients and their families/carers affected by epilepsy. We are looking for someone who works well within a team, with excellent communication skills and capable of working autonomously. We will offer you involvement in a variety academic projects. If you are looking to become part of an exciting and expanding service, whilst making a significant contribution to the quality of life for individuals with epilepsy we would like to hear from you. Main duties of the job Work as a core member of the multi-disciplinary team and at times liaising and acting as a specialist resource across multi-agency specialties. You will be required to work autonomously in clinic settings across the region. Be required to take telephone help line messages and triage patient queries offering support and advice respective to seizure management or on-going care., To deliver autonomous advanced level practice encompasses aspects of education, research and management but is firmly grounded in direct compassionate care provision or clinical work with patients, families, caseloads and populations.Practitioners working at an advanced level will promote public health and well-being using making every contact count as an approach to change behaviour through interactions with individuals, carers and families to support them in making positive changes to their physical and mental health and wellbeing.The role will be 80% clinical and 20% non-clinical.To be accountable for :Ensuring safe and effective clinical practiceEnhancing the patients experienceEnsuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisations objectivesEfficient and effective use of resourcesTeam leaderManaging and developing the performance of the team [service specific] Job description, To deliver autonomous advanced level practice encompasses aspects of education, research and management but is firmly grounded in direct compassionate care provision or clinical work with patients, families, caseloads and populations.Practitioners working at an advanced level will promote public health and well-being using making every contact count as an approach to change behaviour through interactions with individuals, carers and families to support them in making positive changes to their physical and mental health and wellbeing.The role will be 80% clinical and 20% non-clinical.To be accountable for :Ensuring safe and effective clinical practiceEnhancing the patients experienceEnsuring effective contribution to the delivery of the organisations objectivesEfficient and effective use of resourcesTeam leaderManaging and developing the performance of the team [service specific]

Ability to work at Masters level, or working towards Essential

• Health assessment and none medical prescriber
Desirable
• post registration qualification in epilepsy
Person Specification Ability to work at Masters level, or working towards Essential
• Health assessment and none medical prescriber
Desirable
• post registration qualification in epilepsy
  
  The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve the quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020. The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.