Parkinsons Clinical Nurse Specialist

Main area Care of the older adult Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday) Job ref 223-PNS-696-A

Site The Royal Shrewbsury hospital Town Shrewsbury Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum/pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 21/10/:59

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Parkinson's Disease Specialist Nurse. In this challenging and rewarding role you will be providing a quality service to people living with Parkinson's Disease from the time of diagnosis until the end of life.

As a proactive individual with advanced communication skills, you will be working with Parkinson's Disease patients and their carers and with the multi-disciplinary team based in the Acute Trust. You will also establish links with local community services and ensuring a seamless service for patients across all sectors. You will play a pivotal part in supporting and ensuring the changing needs of the Parkinson's Disease patient are met including when they access acute services.

Your role will include delivering education and training to other health care professionals about Parkinson's Disease across SaTH. You will establish appropriate monitoring to ensure quality and safety of the service and participate in relevant audit and governance meetings.

Committed to delivering holistic evidence-based care, you will have the enthusiasm and ambition to take on this demanding role. The successful applicant will have relevant current or recent experience in caring for patients with Parkinson's disease and other chronic diseases. You will be team player with strong organisational skills and substantial post registration experience.

Main duties of the job

• To provide specialist advanced nursing practice across Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals.
• To provide highly specialist nursing advice, in a format appropriate to the individual's needs/abilities, to professionals, patients and carers in all aspects of Parkinson's Disease care.
• Provide expert advice for complex care needs, using evidence based/patient centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate routine, complex and specialist interventions.
• To provide leadership for Trust staff, through supervision / appraisal / education.
• Lead in planning, development and evaluation of Parkinson's Disease services across Shrewsbury and Telford Hospitals, within the multidisciplinary team and holding a lead role for defined projects.
• To be a resource for specialist advice and information across the organisation, giving advice to multidisciplines on the clinical management of patients.
• To contribute to the maintenance and development of equitable seamless Parkinson's Disease care service within the Trust and to represent the service at clinical, professional and management meetings as relevant

Working for our organisation

We believe that compassionate care sits at the heart of everything we do. Every member of our team - clinical or non-clinical - plays a vital role in ensuring that patients, families, and colleagues are treated with dignity, empathy, and respect at all times.

We expect all staff to demonstrate compassion not only through their words, but through their actions: by listening attentively, communicating clearly and kindly, and recognising individual needs, feelings, and circumstances of those in our care.

Effective communication is central to safe and high-quality healthcare. We value colleagues who take the time to understand others, explain information in a meaningful way, and respond to concerns with patience and understanding.

By joining our team, you are committing to uphold these values - ensuring that every patient feels heard, respected, and valued, and that compassion is embedded in every interaction, every day.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For further information about this job role please see full job description and person specification.

Person specification Qualifications

• Registered Nurse
• Teaching and assessing/clinical supervision
• Evidence of ability to critically appraise research and transcribe/implement into evidence-based practice
• Independent/Supplementary Nurse Prescribing Course (V300 Non-medical prescribing course)

Experience

• Substantial post registration experience with a broad range of clinical experience
• Specific experience within the speciality
• Experience of teaching and assessing in the clinical area
• Participated in service development
• Knowledge of professional and NHS issues and policy relating to specialist area

In the event of a high response to this advertisement, this post will be closed. Early applications are advised. We commit to removing barriers for people with disabilities or long-term health conditions in recruitment, training, and career progression. We will offer an interview to all applicants with a disability who meet the minimum criteria for the above position and will support reasonable adjustments wherever possible. In addition, whilst all applicants will be judged on merit alone, we particularly welcome applications from candidates who are male, from black and minority ethnic backgrounds or who have a disability, as these are currently under-represented in our workforce.

We are committed to offering an interview to applicants from the Armed Forces community who meet the minimum criteria for the position. In addition, for those who are successfully appointed from the Armed Forces community, the Trust are committed to recognising previous service and rank in terms of pay, annual leave and other terms and conditions.

We are committed to equal opportunities in employment. The policies and practices of the Trust aim to promote an environment that is free from all forms of unlawful or unfair discrimination and values the diversity of all people. At the heart of our policy, we seek to treat people fairly, flexibly and with dignity and respect.

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from an Ethnic minority background are less likely to apply for jobs unless they meet every single qualification. We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

We aim to create a trusting, flexible workplace, that attracts talent and enables everyone to be their best working self. Many of our colleagues work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you need. We can't promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise a fair and equitable process that balances your needs, the needs of our patients and service delivery.

Our Commitment to Safety and Respect - The Trust is a signatory to the NHS Sexual Safety Charter and is committed to a safe, inclusive workplace free from sexual misconduct, harassment, and discrimination.

Thank you for your interest in The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, we look forward to receiving your application for employment.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.