Parkinson's Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job overview

Applications are invited from enthusiastic candidates who are interested in the opportunity to be part of the Neurology Nurse team, providing high quality care to patients with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease living in The Hillingdon area. This is an excellent opportunity to work across both hospital sites and build links with Community colleagues.

This is a One year Fixed term  post, and the appointee will join the existing multi-disciplinary team to support patients to self-manage their condition helping to avoid hospital admissions where possible. The post holder with provide specialist advice and education to both patients/carers and other teams within the hospital and primary care settings. There will be opportunities to contribute to innovation and ongoing development of the service.

This post would suit a Nurse with a sound knowledge of neurology, who is interested in contributing to the delivery of care to this group of patients .The post holder will have a good working knowledge in the diagnosis and management of Parkinson’s disease and be able to demonstrate confident clinical assessment skills and have experience working as an autonomous practitioner.

An interview date is yet to be confirmed.

Main duties of the job

Assessing Parkinson's patients, offering support and expert guidance to  patients and their carers

Working with the Multi disciplinary team  to support complex patient care

Medication management and reviewing medications ,making recommendations as pts condition changes

Facilitation of timely  PD review to assist with In patient management and discharge planning  for PD pts

First point of contact to help manage this patient cohort

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Have specialist skills in the care of neurological patients including the co-ordination and delivery of treatments and evaluating patient management.
• To be a core member of the MDT and actively participate in MDT meetings and ward reviews.
• To ensure effective two-way communication with patients, carers and other healthcare professionals regarding patient care whilst supporting equality and diversity at all times..
• To respond to the changing needs of the NHS with positivity and creativity.
• To identify risks within the service, report accordingly and identify appropriate treatment plans to negate risk.