Parkinsons Disease Nurse Specialist

Royal Leamington Spa Source: WhatJobs
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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., 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.

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.

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.

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