Parkinsons Disease Nurse Specialist
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is one of the top performing organisations within the NHS. Our staff think this is a great place to work and we hope you will agree. We have recently been rated as 'Outstanding' by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) following our most recent inspection.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the whole county. This includes our Community Teams in North Warwickshire.
We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Over 6000 people work for the Trust and many of them have been here a long time. People find they don’t need to go elsewhere to find a fulfilling career in healthcare.
The first thing you will notice about us is how we take our values seriously. We believe that our values underpin everything we do. If you are interested in a role with us you need to make sure our values match your own.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide inclusive, safe, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
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Probationary Period
All new staff to the Trust will be subject to a standard 3 month probationary period, the details of which will duly follow in your contract of employment.
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is committed to creating and sustaining a positive and inclusive working environment for all our employees. Our aim is to ensure that employees are equally valued and respected and that our organisation is representative of all members of society. We define diversity as valuing everyone as an individual – we value our employees, job applicants, students, patients and visitors as people. This is reflected within our values of being Inclusive, Safe, Effective, Compassionate and Trusted.
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We appreciate you completing the survey.
Agile and Flexible Working
All our staff will have a work base. However the Trust operates as an Agile Working Team therefore staff may be working from home on a regular basis as required by the service. However, occasionally travel around Warwickshire and into your base will be required so access to your own transport would be helpful.
The Trust also welcome staff to work flexibly and we would welcome the conversation at interview regarding flexible working.
Staff Benefits
The Trust offer a wide range of additional benefits to staff. Anyone who joins us on a substantive basis can assess things such as the Lease Car Scheme, Electronics Scheme, Discounted Leisure and Travel, Cycle to work scheme amongst many others available.
Car Parking
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The Trust will only consider sponsoring staff for certain roles, however this will be considered on a case by case basis in line with current legislation. As an employer we are unable to offer sponsorship to all roles in particular we cannot offer sponsorship for roles below Band 5.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our friendly and innovative team as a Band 7 Parkinson’s Disease Nurse Specialist.
Working predominantly in the community, with close links to secondary care, you will provide high quality, proactive and person centred care to people living with Parkinson’s disease.
You will manage your own caseload, providing specialist advice and support to patients, families, carers and the multidisciplinary team, ensuring timely assessment and evidence-based treatment.
We are looking for a motivated practitioner with at least two years’ Band 6 experience in a relevant clinical field, who can demonstrate Master’s level knowledge and the ability to work autonomously.
You will have excellent communication skills and an interest in innovation and improving patient care. Applications from acute and community backgrounds are encouraged.
We offer clinical supervision and professional development within a supportive team.
The role currently offers Monday to Friday working, with no evenings, weekends or bank holidays, alongside flexible hybrid working across remote, office and clinic settings.
For more information please contact the hiring manager - Hannah Jhutti- Operational Manager for Specialist Services [email protected],
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To lead, provide and continue to develop a nurse-led Parkinsons Disease nurse specialist service across Warwickshire within various locality clinics and hospital settings. The post holder will take direct referrals from General Practitioners, Neurologists and other health care professionals, ensuring that all referrals meet the service criteria and have confirmed Parkinsons Diagnosis.
Working for our organisation
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity.
Our values can be summed up in one sentence. We are ‘Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care’. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn’t matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
As part of our commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion we encourage all applicants to complete a short survey. This can be accessed via the link below:
https://forms.office.com/e/ahWY3eAGM2
We appreciate you completing the survey.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Communications and Working Relationships
The post holder will be responsible for managing a caseload and ensure patients are discharged from the service optimised on evidence-based treatments. The post holder will be an expert practitioner providing advice and support to patients and members of the multi-disciplinary team.
Main Clinical Duties
To work as an autonomous, advanced nurse practitioner, utilising advanced clinical assessment and history taking skills in order to assess and provide individualised treatment plans for patients with confirmed Parkinsons disease.
Plan, initiate and co-ordinate ongoing assessment and monitoring of complex treatment plans aimed at improving prognosis, improving symptoms, reducing hospital admissions and facilitating discharge.
The setting up and running of a nurse led clinic in various community locations.
Ensure all referrals are triaged and allocated appointments in a local clinic based on clinical need and urgency.
Independent non-medical prescribing where appropriate, ensuring appropriate monitoring and response to all treatments prescribed. Ensuring prescribing is within national and European treatment guidelines.
Request, reviews and interpret the results of key investigations and make recommendations to the General Practitioner or prescribe the changes in medications as a result of the key investigations.
Ensure all assessments are documented and communicated to the General Practitioner and in particular if medications are prescribed or doses altered to ensure continuity of care and ensure patient safety.
Apply clinical judgement in situations where no guidelines exist. Seek guidance from Consultant colleagues when beyond own scope of professional practice.
Frequently breaking bad news regarding poor prognosis, discussing a clinical deterioration and the likelihood of pending death. Dealing independently with distressed patients and relatives, utilising advanced communication skills. Managing patient and relatives unpredictable responses to grief and bad news.
Initiate conversations around end of life planning and patient wishes regarding resuscitation for completion of a Respect Form, and advance care planning. Ensuring any decisions made with the patient are documented according to trust guidelines and communicated to the multidisciplinary team.
Deliver evidence-based compassionate care which places the patient at the heart of practice. Care will be responsive to individual needs and reflect current national guidelines.
Make direct referrals to other teams and specialists as required ensuring optimal care for the patient.
Professional/Clinical Responsibilities
To carry out comprehensive assessment at an advanced level utilising critical analysis to inform clinical judgement and develop care plans that optimise treatment and client-centred outcomes.
This will include history taking, systematic physical examination, and the collection of baseline data and the identification of risk to develop an individualised treatment plan.
Analyse signs and symptoms, laboratory tests and other measures of function, in formulating a diagnosis.
Independent nurse prescribing skills with medicines management used in collaboration with appropriate members of the multi-disciplinary team to plan and implement treatment for changes in the health status of the patient.
Management plans will involve the patient in the decision making process based on needs, preferences and choices with the resource available to include preventative and anticipatory care. End of life care planning to include family and significant others.
Make direct referrals and order investigations as necessary following agreed protocols and pathways of care, ensuring documentation adheres to Trust and NMC guidelines. Ensuring that all member of the multidisciplinary team involved in the care have been updated.
Identify patients who will benefit from joint case-management to promote joint working with place based teams, community and primary care colleagues to optimise outcomes.
Arrange and facilitate regular MDT meetings to ensure collaborative communication and planning to meet the needs of the individual.
Be accessible to colleagues/providers for communication across a range of health and social care settings to enhance patient experience.
Ensure a robust process is in place to review care/treatment plans and undertake regular medication reviews.
Working collaboratively with GPs and practice nurses to provide support and advice, run clinics in the community setting and support with the annual review of patients the caseload
Monitor indicators of Parkinson’s disease, anticipating possible decline and proactively manage this to enhance wellbeing, maintain independence and prevent inappropriate hospital admissions.
Build relationships across professional and organisational boundaries, anticipating boundaries whist working towards ways to improve communication.
To provide learning opportunities for students/colleagues and other health care professionals.
To provide case management support and guidance for all clinical practitioner colleagues across Warwickshire on an ad hoc and at least a bimonthly basis face to face, or by other means of communication such as Microsoft Teams.
To work jointly with Clinical Service Lead to deliver the shared objectives of the integrated service
Ensure that all record keeping complies with NMC Guidelines and Trust policy.
To undertake clinical supervision, professional development and undertake annual PDR
IMPORTANT INFORMATION
Sometimes we get a lot of applications for our roles. On those occasions we might close the job early. If you don’t want to miss out we recommend submitting your application as early as possible.
The Trust use an Applicant Management System called TRAC which helps us manage the recruitment process. All communications regarding your application will come via TRAC (even if you applied via NHS Jobs).
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We aim to shortlist all vacancies within 2 days of the vacancy closing, we will get back to all candidates ASAP.
Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address.
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust is an equal opportunities employer who is committed to Equality and Diversity and does not tolerate discrimination or harassment on the grounds of any protected characteristic as defined by the Equality Act 2010.
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The Trust is part of a ‘Foundation Group’ through a strategic alliance with Wye Valley NHS Trust, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust. This partnership is great for the sustainability of all four organisations and allows us to share learning and maximise opportunities to ensure the delivery of high quality health and care services for our local populations.