Epilepsy Lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of the Adult Epilepsy Service. The service is based at GSST working over both main sites Guys Hospital and St Thomas' hospital. The post holder will act as a specialist and will demonstrate a high level of expertise within the specialist epilepsy service, providing advice, education and support to patients and their families and health care professionals Applicants must be an experienced registered nurses and have practiced at a minimum band 7 post or above.

All potential post holders should have at minimum 5 years' worth of experience as epilepsy specialist nurse . They must be able to demonstrate team leadership, resilience and determination. They should seek to lead new practice and service redesign solutions in response to feedback, evaluation and need, working across boundaries and broadening sphere of influence.

The post holder will be required to engage key stakeholders and influence the development and improvement of practice, patient care and service delivery.

Job description

The Lead Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) is an experienced registered nurse with specialist skills to assess and treat patients and manage the clinical environment, in liaison with the management and consultant team. The nurse will act as an autonomous practitioner in forming clinical decisions and complex management plans in the diagnosis, assessment and treatment of patients. In conjunction with senior nursing and consultant staff formulate the development of clinical guidance for all aspects of clinical practice within the clinical specialty. The post holder will develop new areas of practice, with nursing and consultant staff ensuring quality standards are met. The post holder will work closely with the interdisciplinary team and collaborate with colleagues to ensure that high quality patient care is maintained.

The Lead ANP will work in a team of with a band 7 Nurse Specialist that demonstrates a high level of expertise within the specialist service, providing specialist advice, education and support to the MDT team across outpatient and inpatient teams, particularly across the emergency pathways, as well as with patients. The Lead ANP will actively undertake clinical audits within the specialist area.

Person specification

Previous Experience

Essential

• Bachelors Degree in nursing
• Advanced physical assessment skills
• Non Prescribing Course
• ACP Course
• Minimum 5 years working at senior level within Epilepsy/Neurology

Desirable

• Master's Degree
• Teaching Qualification

Skills knowledge and Ability

Essential

• Advanced clinical assessment and history taking skills
• Experience of running nurse led clinics
• Advanced theoretical and practical knowledge of Epilepsy
• Ability to critically appraise and synthesise the outcomes of relevant research evaluations and audit.

Desirable

• Experience of managing junior staff
• Experience of managing and treating epilepsy in pregnancy

Additional information

Essential

• Strong sense of commitment to openness, honesty and integrity in undertaking the role.

About the employer

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals; Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.