Paediatric Epilepsy Nurse

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.

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 time...all the time.