Paediatric Epilepsy Nurses

We are looking for a dedicated and compassionate Paediatric Epilepsy Nurse to join our team, providing specialist care and support to children living with epilepsy and their families.
About the Role:
You will carry out clinical assessments in both clinic and ward settings, ensuring timely and effective reviews. You will manage and prioritise your own caseload, organising day-to-day work to maintain continuity of care. Working closely with the multidisciplinary team, you will help deliver high-quality epilepsy care tailored to each child's needs.
You will take a holistic approach, supporting children from infancy through adolescence, considering not only their medical needs but also their developmental and emotional wellbeing. The role also involves coordinating with the Matron, nursing staff, paediatricians, service users and senior managers to ensure smooth and effective service delivery.
Paediatric Epilepsy Nurses play a vital role in ensuring children with epilepsy receive the best possible care, guidance and support. If you are passionate about improving outcomes for children and families, we would love to hear from you., Promoting Evidence based practice in the assessment, diagnosis, treatment and care of children and young people with epilepsy
Supporting and advocating high quality epilepsy services.
Being the main point of contact for GP's and service providers.
Supporting the ongoing care of the child/young person and family, providing specialist information, emotional support and teaching.
Providing training, education, raising awareness and advice to other professionals.
Working as a role model in the care of children and young people with epilepsy and their families.
Skilled and expert nurse
Making recommendations and identifying areas for development and presenting them to teams.
Coordinating and managing the caseload autonomously.
Participating in clinical work
Liaising appropriately with all key members of the MDT and service users.
Transition to other services or adult care.
Providing support

Working for our organisation
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust.

Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust is the only acute hospital provider in the Mid and South Essex Integrated Care System (ICS), which is a system of health and care partners working together for our local population.
Within Mid and South Essex there are 149 GP practices, operating from over 200 sites, forming 27 Primary Care Networks and one Ambulance Trust. There are also three main community and mental health service providers who work together through a community collaborative.
We collaborate with other valuable partners, including three Healthwatch organisations, nine voluntary and community sector organisations and three top tier local authorities, with seven district, borough and city councils, as well as our local universities., Please note, the selection processes at Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right skills and values, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn't accurately reflect their skills, and you will be required to declare on your application if AI has been used before submitting your application.