Clinical Nurse Specialist - Community Stroke Team

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) is one of the largest healthcare systems in the United Kingdom, employing approximately 40,000 staff across a wide range of clinical and non‑clinical professions and roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health services to a population of over 1.15 million people, and to a wider population of 2.2 million when regional and national services are included.

The post holder will work autonomously in the community to manage a complex clinical caseload within the Service, applying specialist knowledge and skills relating to their professional role and working as an effective and efficient partner and coordinator in the interdisciplinary team. They will work together with other professionals in health, education and social care to provide advice on effective care and health promotion to adults with stroke.

Within the Community Stroke Team the post holder will deliver, by reason of their highly developed specialist knowledge, underpinned by theory, practice and experience, a high quality specialist service, providing expert advice, clinical assessment, triage, intervention, case coordination, and education to the support of patients and their carers. The post holder will provide support, guidance and supervision of less experienced professionals e.g. students, Assistant Practitioners (AP) and administrative workers.

They will work flexibly according to the needs of the Service. You need to have a live NMC UK pin in order to be considered for this post.

• An exciting and rarely available opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 stroke specialist Nurse post, based within Glasgow Community Stroke Team
• The shift pattern for this post is Monday to Friday
• Please note the salary is Pro Rata for part time hours

• Undertake a holistic, comprehensive assessment of stroke patients (including screening and multi‑professional baseline assessments) with a complex presentation using investigative skills, analysing clinical and non‑clinical information (i.e. social and environmental information), using appropriate formal assessment tools to determine their need for nursing and multi‑disciplinary service involvement.
• Following assessment, act autonomously to assess, plan, implement and evaluate nursing interventions for a range of patients to address individual needs. This will include patients who have highly complex presentations and those with multi‑factorial health and social needs, requiring multi‑service/multi‑agency input. Incorporate risk assessment to maximise functional independence and rehabilitation potential within specialist area.
• Provide specialist interventions based on a problem solving and advanced clinical reasoning approach. Deliver specialist interventions using a wide range of techniques. Monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
• Acts as a clinical resource for the multidisciplinary team.
• Undertake a case coordination role taking responsibility for coordinating the interdisciplinary goal planning and discharge planning process. Liaise and work collaboratively with other agencies e.g. initiating referrals, sharing of information, recommending appropriate service delivery. Balance the needs of a clinical caseload alongside case coordination duties in the management of service waiting times.
• Autonomously manage professional caseload within the interdisciplinary service through efficient workload management and adjustment of service provision to meet changing priorities and ensure individual patients receive patient centred intervention timeously and appropriately.
• Take a coordinating role and be responsible for the day to day management and delivery of the service in conjunction with the interdisciplinary team, as agreed with the Team Lead. Undertake delegated managerial tasks on an infrequent basis as directed.
• Delegate appropriate caseload, tasks and supervise less experienced staff, e.g. Stroke Rehabilitation Support Workers and students to achieve successful management of their assigned caseload. Managing…