Epilepsy Specialist Nurse | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Dyddiad hysbysebu:	10 Gorffennaf 2025
Cyflog:	Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog:	£38,682 - £46,580 per annum, pro rata
Oriau:	Rhan Amser
Dyddiad cau:	09 Awst 2025
Lleoliad:	Halifax, HX3 0PW
Cwmni:	Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd:	Parhaol
Cyfeirnod swydd:	7218592/372-MED2437

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Would you like to come and work within an innovative and evolving Neurology clinical nurse specialist team within the Calderdale and Huddersfield Trust?

This is a newly created post to support our existing Specialist nurses in our Epilepsy service.

You will be supported by another two Epilepsy specialist nurse, and a wider team of Nurses and AHPs in our Neurology team such as MS, Parkinsons and MND. You will also have support from our medical teams.

The post holder will have interactions with external support agencies such as the Epilepsy Society.

The post holder will facilitate clinical effectiveness, best practice and service development, contributing to the continuity of care of adults in the community and secondary care.



To manage a caseload of patients and ensure full holistic care alongside medical colleagues.

To be initial point of contact for our Epilepsy patients ensuring safe an effective care is established and reviewed as needed.

Ideally you will have a neurology background, however inter transferable skills will be considered if your enthusiasm for learning is one of your strengths.

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
• Demonstrate advanced empathetic interpersonal and communication skills in dealing with patients and carers through the patient pathway.
• Maximise the involvement of patients, or when appropriate their carer’s, families, or advocates, in all relevant decisions about their diagnosis, care and treatment from the point of diagnosis through to discharge.
• Be responsible for the development of individualised care plans, regularly reviewing and evaluating them with the patients and Heath Care Team.
• Demonstrate specialist knowledge throughout your chosen area of expertise, and skills through clinical practice. Care delivery should be evidence based and reflect national standards and guidelines.
• Partake in the Non-medical Prescribing Qualification (V300) after successful probationary period.
• Develop enhanced and extended skills by attendance at study days and conferences and work towards a post graduate qualification.
• In conjunction with the multidisciplinary team, ensure that information provided to health professionals and patients are representative of research-based recommendations and are within the National Standards Frameworks where appropriate.
• Contribute to and participate in the Trust’s Education Strategy.
• Attend mandatory lectures according to Trust policies – training.
• Establish and maintain a regional network of contacts.
• Actively demonstrates commitment to clinical supervision.
• Be involved in the development of policies, protocols and clinical guidelines necessary to support the development of the service.
• Directly influence decisions regarding service delivery through the participation in meetings.
• Be involved in the development and monitoring of quality initiatives in line with local and national requirements or guidelines.
• Demonstrate knowledge of clinical trials relevant to the specialist area.
• Contribute to appropriate research studies related to the treatment and care of patients.
• To manage a caseload of patients with a diagnosis, providing highly expert knowledge and advice, utilising a range of interventions, and managing the ongoing care of the patient; whilst balancing the scope and range of clinical intervention with other roles and responsibilities of the post.
• To minimise the effect of diagnosis on patients’ lives by providing crisis intervention, stabilising conditions, and preventing unnecessary Emergency Department attendances and hospital admissions by empowering the patient to self-manage and decrease length of ward stay.
• Using specialist knowledge and skills to assess, implement, evaluate, and develop an ongoing plan of care in collaboration with patients, their families and carers and involved members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team in line with NICE guidelines.
• Provide sensitive information on diagnosis, treatment, concordance, whilst also offering emotional support at diagnosis, bereavement and other times of need.
• To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment, and support other staff to do likewise.
• To provide patients and carers with verbal and written education on their disorder and will also provide support and counselling


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