Band 6 - Neurology Nurse Practitioner

Job overview

The Neurology Nurse Practitioner will deliver a high-quality, patient-centred specialist nursing service to individuals with neurological conditions across GHNHSFT.

The post holder will work across both acute hospital sites, including Cheltenham General Hospital (CGH) and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital (GRH), as well as community settings across Gloucestershire County. This includes supporting outpatient clinics, inpatient care, and undertaking home visits where clinically appropriate.

The practitioner will support the delivery of integrated neurology services across the patient pathway, working within a MDT to assess, plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based care for patients with conditions such as Epilepsy, Parkinson’s disease, Multiple Sclerosis (MS), and Motor Neurone Disease (MND). May undertake research and undertake audit in the neurology services.

The post holder will:

• Work flexibly across CGH, GRH, outpatient clinics, inpatient wards, and community settings where required.
• Support delivery of neurology services across Gloucestershire County
• Undertake home visits and community-based assessments where required
• Contribute to integrated care pathways, ensuring continuity between acute and community services
• Support nurse-led and consultant-led clinics, including follow-up and review patients
• Participate in telephone advice lines and virtual consultations

Main duties of the job

As a Registered Nurse the expectation is that, with adequate training, supervision and assessment, you will be able to:

• Work with the neurology team and clinical lead to provide prescribed medical treatments to people with neurology within Trust, Professional and National policy frameworks.
• Practice in compliance with your code of professional conduct and within your agreed scope of practice, being responsible and accountable for your decisions, actions and omissions at this level of practice.
• Perform comprehensive assessment of patient nursing needs, plan, implement and evaluate care delivery.
• Perform advanced clinical skills in assessment and/or diagnosis and/or treatment.
• Accept patient referrals, refer on as appropriate and plan and instigate discharge from care.
• Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records.
• Involve patients and carers/relatives in the planning and delivery of care and development of services.
• Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure patient needs are met especially in relation to ongoing care needs and discharge arrangements.
• Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers/relatives, and professionals across health and social services.
• Practice with a high degree of competency and advise within specialist area.

Please see Job Description for the details of the main duties of the job.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the Job Description for comprehensive details of the role’s main duties and responsibilities.