Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Children's Epilepsy Service for a band 7 nurse for 30 hours per week, on a permanent contract. This post will lead an established Band 6 team of clinical nurse specialists, & work alongside our Children's Epilepsy Surgery Service, to provide a holistic package of support to children & families with Epilepsy.

This band role will offer an opportunity to develop, strengthen, & lead our Epilepsy team providing a robust service to children & families both in hospital and in the local community.

We are seeking a caring, dynamic, reliable & committed nurse with excellent organisational & interpersonal skills to join & help lead the Children's Epilepsy Nurse Team. A desire to give the best care for children with epilepsy is essential for this post.

You will be joining us at an exciting time, as we forge stronger links with community services & continue to develop the children's epilepsy care pathway & transition service. You will work closely with our team of friendly paediatric neurologists & paediatricians to ensure that children receive a seamless, quality service.

Our Trust that has been awarded 'Good' by the CQC, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children (BRHC) is one of the most established and cutting-edge Children's Hospitals.

If you feel ready to meet this challenge, have strong leadership abilities, sound interpersonal skills & a desire to improve the quality & service for your patients then we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job
To provide specialist nursing advice and support to patients, their families, and carers from the time of diagnosis and throughout treatment and follow-up phases of treatment and care.

To lead the development, improvement, management, and promotion of the service ensuring the delivery of high-quality, cost-effective care.

• To lead on the implementation and monitoring of adherence to relevant clinical guidelines.
• To educate and share expertise with the multidisciplinary teams.
• To act as a resource in the care of patients with specialist care needs, ensuring an optimum level of service to patients and their carers.
• To work closely with community and or network teams, other hospital and community staff to ensure an effective seamless service.
• To develop effective communication and support systems for patients and their families.
• To embed patient and public involvement within the sphere of practice.
• To ensure that patients and families are aware of all treatment options, management, triggers and safety, including clinical trials.
• To function as a patient's advocate to negotiate and mediate to work with the system to ensure optimum care to patients.
• To establish nurse-led interventions to support services and manage patient's needs and expectations

About us
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that theSouth Westhas to offer.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

Job responsibilities
For a more detailed job description and main responsibilities, please refer to the job description document attached to this vacancy.

Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
Essential

• RN Child or RN Adult with relevant Children's qualification
• Relevant accredited post registration qualification at level 3
• Degree or equivalent (in related health topic or willingness to work towards)

Desirable

• Non-medical prescribing qualification and registration
• Evidence of master's level academic study

Knowledge & Experience
Essential

• Extensive and varied post registration experience
• Substantial current speciality experience
• Evidence of recent teaching experience
• Experience of undertaking research or audit projects

Skills & Abilities
Essential

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• The ability to lead and influence change
• Flexibility, adaptability to meet needs of a changing service
• Good organisational skills
• Ability to cope with emotional issues presented in the course of work, and to support others
• Knowledge of national and local specialty specific issues
• Information technology skills
• Commitment to the development and provision of high quality nursing care
• Initiative

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.
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