Children's Community Epilepsy Specialist Nurse

NHS; Halifax; On-site; CAD 38,000 - 47,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS organization is seeking a qualified Children's Community Epilepsy Specialist Nurse to join their dynamic team. This role involves providing high-quality health care and support to children with epilepsy and their families across various community settings. The successful candidate will collaborate with multidisciplinary teams, ensuring seamless care and service improvement in a compassionate environment.

Qualifications

• Experience of caring for children with complex health needs.
• Demonstrated leadership skills in managing community health services.
• Ability to work autonomously and effectively in various specialized roles.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate care pathways for children with epilepsy and families.
• Manage patient caseload and ensure high-quality service delivery.
• Provide specialist advice and care across multiple settings, ensuring patient safety.

Skills

Communication

Leadership

Clinical competency

Education

Registered children's Nurse

Specialist Practitioner at Degree level or willing to work towards

Independent non-medical prescriber

Tools

Pet 1 qualification epilepsy certificate

Pet 2 qualification or willingness to work towards

Recognised teaching and assessing certificate

APLS

Job description

Go back Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Children's Community Epilepsy Specialist Nurse

The closing date is 18 June 2025

We have an exciting opportunity for a paediatric registered nurse who has experience/interest in long term conditions to join the children's epilepsy team.

The post holder will work as part of this team ensuring the delivery of high-quality health care, education and support to children and families within the home, school and in various community settings

The post holder will need to have enthusiasm and a passion for patient safety and service improvement.

As a key member of Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Trust you will be joining an exceptional team working together to put our patients first.

Main duties of the job

To support the Clinical Manager in the daily operational management and leadership of the Children's Epilepsy Service ensuring the delivery of high-quality health care, education and support to children and families within the home, school and in various community settings.

To initiate and co-ordinate appropriate services in order to facilitate the early discharge and manage children and young people newly diagnosed with Epilepsy at home.

To liaise directly with the multidisciplinary team and other agencies to facilitate seamless high quality Epilepsy care to the child and family at home and clinic.

To work as a member of the Children's Epilepsy multi-disciplinary Team, providing a holistic and developmental approach to Epilepsy from infancy through to adolescence.

To Work in conjunction with the Clinical Manager, nursing staff, paediatricians, service users and the Directorate and Divisional senior management teams, the post holder will co-ordinate, prioritise, appropriately delegate and organise the safe and effective running of services.

The Foundation Trust aims to design and implement services, policies and measures that meet the diverse needs of our service, population and workforce, ensuring that none are placed at a disadvantage over others

About us

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Job responsibilities

To effectively co-ordinate care to ensure a seamless and timely pathway of care for children and families.

To manage the patient caseload providing assessment, planning, implement and evaluate care delivery using clinical knowledge and clinical skills.

To provide specialist care and advice for young people and families in hospital /home /school /work & college via phone/ face to face

To be responsible for ensuring the provision of compassionate, safe and high quality care of all patients.

To ensure the delivery of quality care to patients and to supervise the working of junior staff during the span of duty.

To provide nursing clinical expertise, leadership and education, supervising junior staff to gain competence and expertise.

To confidently escalate in a timely manner to Clinical Manager, Matron, On Call Consultant, General Manager, Clinical Director, Associate Director of Nursing and Senior Management Team (as appropriate) concerns about patient safety, quality and experience, offering solutions and evidence-based recommendations.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING

• Registered children's Nurse
• Specialist Practitioner at Degree level or willing to work towards
• Pet 1 qualification epilepsy certificate or other equivalent course
• Pet 2 qualification or willing to work towards
• Independent non-medical prescriber
• Recognised teaching and assessing certificate
• APLS

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE

• Previous experience of caring with children with epilepsy
• Experience of working in the community with children including children with complex health needs
• Experience of working with multi agency teams
• Have an excellent awareness of current issues and developments in the NHS and how this relates to service delivery
• A good knowledge of working across agencies in a community setting
• Competent in dealing with children, young people and their family's diagnosis, treatment and psychological adjustment to illness
• Experience of working with children with medical needs and their families
• Be able to plan and organise teaching sessions for staff members
• Comprehensive level of clinical competency
• Evidence of previous project management

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

• To be able to work autonomously and independently
• Be able to organise and respond effectively to complex and difficult situations
• Ability to triage and prioritise own workload
• Demonstrate strong and dynamic leadership skills
• Enthusiastic and highly motivated
• Ability to manage stress for self and/or others
• Ability to work sensitively within a diverse population

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum, pro rata