Clinical Nurse Specialist – Episodic Headache Service
| Posting date: | 13 May 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,488 - £57,802 Per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 12 June 2024 |
| Location: | London, WC1N 3BG |
| Company: | University College London Hospital |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6299198/309-UCLH-4380 |
Summary
A Vacancy at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Headache Nurse Specialist to join the renowned Headache and Facial Pain Group for the episodic service at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
The headache and facial pain team provide a national tertiary service to patients with complex and chronic headache presentations. We are establishing a new episodic service, aimed at providing specialised care for patients experiencing episodic headaches including CGRP monoclonal antibody antagonist therapy.
Our service is expanding, and we are looking for a dynamic and experienced nurse to join our headache nursing team. The post holder will work alongside and collaborate with a multidisciplinary group of experts to provide top-tier headache care including consultants, headache nurses, psychologists, neurosurgeons and other medical colleagues. You will be expected to exercise a high degree of professional autonomy and to make critical judgements using specialist knowledge; you will provide the highest standard of holistic patient care for patients with headache disorders. You will have responsibility for assessing patients and subsequently devising, implementing and assessing an individual's comprehensive Headache management plan.
The post holder will need to work closely with the headache nursing team, consultant neurologists and health colleagues within primary and secondary care, social care and voluntary agencies, contributing to and implementing care for people with headache.
A background in neurology and/or neurosurgery is essential. Whilst previous headache experience is desirable, training, support and development will be provided
Supervision is available from the Lead Headache Nurse and the rest of headache nursing team.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological,gastrointestinaland oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclearmedicineand pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
For the full Person Specification and more informationregardingthe main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and bea part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second year running! :University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
*In the most recentNHS staff surveyUCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the second year in a row.
UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second year running! :University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.
At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.
This advert closes on Monday 20 May 2024
This is an exciting opportunity for a Band 7 Headache Nurse Specialist to join the renowned Headache and Facial Pain Group for the episodic service at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery.
The headache and facial pain team provide a national tertiary service to patients with complex and chronic headache presentations. We are establishing a new episodic service, aimed at providing specialised care for patients experiencing episodic headaches including CGRP monoclonal antibody antagonist therapy.
Our service is expanding, and we are looking for a dynamic and experienced nurse to join our headache nursing team. The post holder will work alongside and collaborate with a multidisciplinary group of experts to provide top-tier headache care including consultants, headache nurses, psychologists, neurosurgeons and other medical colleagues. You will be expected to exercise a high degree of professional autonomy and to make critical judgements using specialist knowledge; you will provide the highest standard of holistic patient care for patients with headache disorders. You will have responsibility for assessing patients and subsequently devising, implementing and assessing an individual's comprehensive Headache management plan.
The post holder will need to work closely with the headache nursing team, consultant neurologists and health colleagues within primary and secondary care, social care and voluntary agencies, contributing to and implementing care for people with headache.
A background in neurology and/or neurosurgery is essential. Whilst previous headache experience is desirable, training, support and development will be provided
Supervision is available from the Lead Headache Nurse and the rest of headache nursing team.
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
• University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
• National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
• University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
• Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
• University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
• The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological,gastrointestinaland oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclearmedicineand pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.
For the full Person Specification and more informationregardingthe main responsibilities of this role, please refer to the attached Job Description.
Come and bea part of the best NHS trust in England to work for, according to our staff*
UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second year running! :University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
*In the most recentNHS staff surveyUCLH had the highest percentage of staff who said they would recommend us as a place to work, out of all general acute or acute/community NHS trusts in England – for the second year in a row.
UCLH top trust to work at in England – for the second year running! :University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Once again, UCLH has received the highest score of all general acute and acute/community NHS trusts in England for staff that would recommend us as a place to work.
At UCLH, we have a real ‘One Team’ ethos, and our values – safety, kindness, teamwork and improving, are central to the way we work. This is supported by our staff, who voted us as the #1 NHS Acute Trust to work for in the whole of England.
This advert closes on Monday 20 May 2024
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