Paediatric Epilepsy Clinical Nurse Specialist
Location
Manchester, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
7/23/2025
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Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Epilepsy Specialist Nurse to join an established service at MFT, providing epilepsy care to children, and young people across the region. The post involves working closely with children, young people with a diagnosis of epilepsy. The person will offer input, support and advice to children, young people, families, carers, and healthcare professionals in a tertiary setting. The post holder should have the ability to work autonomously, and as part of the Epilepsy Specialist Nursing Team, assisting in clinical decision-making to positively influence patient care and experience.
To apply specialist knowledge and skills to ensure ongoing care and safety to children/young people and their families with a diagnosis of epilepsy.
To manage a caseload of complex patients with a confirmed diagnosis of epilepsy, including supporting with the Ketogenic Diet, and VNS therapy.
To lead discharge co-ordination, supporting the journey of children and young people from tertiary to community settings, ensuring health, education and social care needs are considered throughout.
To work as an autonomous practitioner with support from Epilepsy Specialist Nurses, Paediatric Consultant Neurologists, Paediatricians, Community Paediatricians, and allied professionals.
To design, implement, deliver, and evaluate specialist education and training in support of other health and social care colleagues
To ensure effective delivery and monitoring of Epilepsy care throughout the trust by supporting multidisciplinary teams and by using advanced epilepsy and seizure medication knowledge and advanced communication skills
To initiate, undertake and evaluate the development of quality improvement work within the Specialist Epilepsy service as well as participating in research and clinical audits.
To be involved in supporting care planning for children with complex epilepsies and ensuring healthcare passports completed as required.
To provide training to carers and families in relation to epilepsy and rescue medications.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Claire Mulhall Job title: Matron for Surgery Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0161 701 7488
To apply specialist knowledge and skills to ensure ongoing care and safety to children/young people and their families with a diagnosis of epilepsy.
To manage a caseload of complex patients with a confirmed diagnosis of epilepsy, including supporting with the Ketogenic Diet, and VNS therapy.
To lead discharge co-ordination, supporting the journey of children and young people from tertiary to community settings, ensuring health, education and social care needs are considered throughout.
To work as an autonomous practitioner with support from Epilepsy Specialist Nurses, Paediatric Consultant Neurologists, Paediatricians, Community Paediatricians, and allied professionals.
To design, implement, deliver, and evaluate specialist education and training in support of other health and social care colleagues
To ensure effective delivery and monitoring of Epilepsy care throughout the trust by supporting multidisciplinary teams and by using advanced epilepsy and seizure medication knowledge and advanced communication skills
To initiate, undertake and evaluate the development of quality improvement work within the Specialist Epilepsy service as well as participating in research and clinical audits.
To be involved in supporting care planning for children with complex epilepsies and ensuring healthcare passports completed as required.
To provide training to carers and families in relation to epilepsy and rescue medications.
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Claire Mulhall Job title: Matron for Surgery Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0161 701 7488
Advertise with us by contacting: [email protected]
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