Paediatric Long Term Nurse; Epilepsy

Paediatric Long Term Conditions Nurse (Epilepsy)

Our Children's Community Nursing Service has an exciting development opportunity in the role of a Paediatric Long Term Conditions Nurse for Epilepsy.

The role will provide clinical nursing expertise to all children and young people (CYP) with epilepsy across the Health Board. They will ensure children and young people have the ability to self‑care as well as provide education for their families, carers and other professionals. The successful applicant will possess specialist clinical skills to achieve the best outcomes for this cohort of CYP.

• Manage own defined caseload, work autonomously and support the team to achieve person centred care.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate holistic epilepsy nursing care in the hospital, home and school setting.
• Work in partnership with families, empowering parents and children to ensure that management of epilepsy occurs within the community, thus reducing the level of hospital stay at the time of diagnosis and minimising readmission.
• Provide specialist teaching for children, young people and their families, facilitating the development of self care skills and knowledge, at the time of diagnosis and in planned ongoing age-appropriate education both individually and in groups.
• Work in partnership with the nominated paediatrician in the implementation of individual pathways of care.
• Develop and deliver specialist education programmes for nursing and other professionals across all care sectors including education as well as patients and their families.
• Provide specialist nursing guidance and ongoing support to all nursing teams involved in patient care.
• Support and participate in multi-disciplinary professional service development acting as an advocate for the child and family in the coordination of all aspects of patient care.

• On part 8 or 15 of the NMC Register
• Possession of a relevant degree / diploma
• Evidence of ongoing dynamic continuing professional development within the speciality to postgraduate diploma level
• Thorough speciality knowledge

• Understanding of professional and current issues in children's nursing
• Understanding of audit and research methodologies
• Clinical Governance
• Post‑registration experience at Band 6 competency level
• Previous experience of research and audit
• Experience of partnership agency working
• Experience of community and lone working

• Welsh speaker (Level
  1)

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.

£40,559 to £48,841 a year pro rata