# Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Neuromuscular > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/advanced-nurse-practitioner-in-neuromuscular/cd18d72b-c29a-4f12-995e-21270ab98ac3 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/advanced-nurse-practitioner-in-neuromuscular/cd18d72b-c29a-4f12-995e-21270ab98ac3.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust - **Town:** Liverpool - **Region:** North West - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Nurse practitioner - **Salary:** Band 8a as ACF - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-17T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-08-03T09:00:49.523Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Merseyside/liverpool/The_Walton_Centre_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Neuromuscular/Neuromuscular-v8125521 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8125521?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.thewaltoncentre.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview The successful applicants will be able to demonstrate safe, competent clinical decision-making and deliver expert care, including assessment, diagnostic skills, treatment and evaluation of patients who wish to be seen by a healthcare professional, presenting with minor illness and/or their continuing medical and nursing needs. ### Main duties of the job - Acting as an expert practitioner, demonstrating advanced clinical competence and a knowledge base beyond those associated with conventional nursing roles. - Working as an autonomous clinical practitioner/nurse, providing high quality and timely patient centred care. - Independently prescribe, working within the current guidelines, reviewing, and monitoring patient medications in accordance with the formulary. - Delivering face to face/telephone/e-consult/video consultations as well as home visits. - Directing care appropriately and managing complete episodes of care independently. - Undertaking consultations with patients of all ages including children as an autonomous practitioner and using own clinical judgement, diagnose, treat, refer and/or discharge patients. - Working within and across the MDT teams and signpost/draw upon expertise of all members to support and meet the patients' needs and best interests. - Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards, ensuring accurate read coding. - Participating in, and contribute to, all clinical targets (QOF, QIS, ES etc). - Recommending, instigating, and explaining appropriate invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests, investigations and interpret findings and reports. ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities The successful applicants will be able to demonstrate safe, competent clinical decision-making and deliver expert care, including assessment, diagnostic skills, treatment and evaluation of patients who wish to be seen by a healthcare professional, presenting with minor illness and/or their continuing medical and nursing needs. - Acting as an expert practitioner, demonstrating advanced clinical competence and a knowledge base beyond those associated with conventional nursing roles. - Working as an autonomous clinical practitioner/nurse, providing high quality and timely patient centred care. - Independently prescribe, working within the current guidelines, reviewing, and monitoring patient medications in accordance with the formulary. - Delivering face to face/telephone/e-consult/video consultations as well as home visits. - Directing care appropriately and managing complete episodes of care independently. - Undertaking consultations with patients of all ages including children as an autonomous practitioner and using own clinical judgement, diagnose, treat, refer and/or discharge patients. - Working within and across the MDT teams and signpost/draw upon expertise of all members to support and meet the patients' needs and best interests. - Recording clear and contemporaneous consultation notes to agreed standards, ensuring accurate read coding. - Participating in, and contribute to, all clinical targets (QOF, QIS, ES etc). - Recommending, instigating, and explaining appropriate invasive and non-invasive diagnostic tests, investigations and interpret findings and reports. ### Applicant requirements You must have appropriate UK professional registration. This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service. ## Person Specification ### Qualifications **Essential** - Current NMC Registration - MSc in relevant clinical field or working towards - MSc level module in Clinical examination and history taking - Non Medical Prescribing (V300) - to show evidence and experience in Neurology nursing relevant to Parkinsons disease - Post basic qualification in leadership and / or management Teaching qualification **Desirable** - Post basic qualification in leadership and / or management Teaching qualificatio ### Skills & Attributes **Essential** - Evidence of having undertaken IRMER training relevant to the post. - Extensive skills in history taking and clinical examination - Ability to collaborate and work with other clinicians. - Demonstrate high standards of communication / negotiation skills - Is able to make operational judgments involving complex facts/situations - Can demonstrate assertiveness, tact and diplomacy appropriately - Strong analytical skills and ability to consider the wider picture **Desirable** - Ability to autonomously undertake lumbar punctures and appropriately manage the patients clinical condition ### Knowledge & Experience **Essential** - Significant and demonstrable advanced clinical experience within Neurology, - Ability to demonstrate experience in leading and developing patient pathways - Significant line management experience of ward/ specialist nursing teams. - Experience of successfully managing the implementation of change - Experience in clinical audit / benchmarking - Evidence of Independent clinical decision making - Demonstrates specialist expertise in relation to Parkinsons underpinned by theory - Knowledge of key performance indicators for clinical governance - Knowledge of Key Performance Indicators relevant to specialty - Ability to create and deliver educational programs relevant to specialty incorporating a varied audience - Demonstrable ability to write reports demonstrating alignment of the relevant service to the trust strategic objectives. - Ability to initiate, undertake and participate in audit and research relevant to service needs **Desirable** - Evidence of proactive involvement in the development of nurses and nursing practice ## Documents - [advanced neurology nurse practitioner (pdf, 592.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10422226) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.