Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Practitioner

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Full time
Location: Brigg
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Job offered by: NHS
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Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Practitioner

Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

The post holder will be a Registered Health Care Professional either Nursing or Allied Health Care Professional, with experience and a special interest in Motor Neurone Disease (MND). You will work as a part of a multidisciplinary team with the Rehabilitation Medicine Service within North and North East Lincolnshire, providing specialist support to patients from diagnosis to end of life care, including referral for families for bereavement support where required. You will be expected to work closely with regional MND multidisciplinary teams (MDT) to enhance networks to ensure patients benefit from the most clinically appropriate and expeditious service available regionally or locally and that the needs of carers are also recognised and supported where possible. Main duties of the job

Demonstrate clinical competence and expertise in neurological conditions, palliative care and end of life nursing, with a sound understanding of holistic needs of patients with MND and their families. You will be responsible for the care and support of an identified patient caseload; attending the community MDT meeting and acute Trust MDT as required, sharing information and liaising with other MDT members including the Consultant Lead. To ensure the patients' needs are met in a person centred way by the MDT and act as a resource for the wider MDT working alongside both medical, nursing and therapy team members, teaching and sharing knowledge/information. You will be expected to develop excellent relationships with multiple key stakeholders including the rehabilitation service, hospice, palliative care teams, Neurology services within the acute Trusts, Speech and Language Therapy (SALT), home ventilation teams, dieticians etc to ensure care across community, hospice and hospital boundaries is seamless and patient centred. The postholder will be involved with training and education of nursing and other staff groups as required. Job responsibilities

For further details with regard to this vacancy opportunity, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification. Person Specification

Registered professional

Ability to manage clinical caseload and lead change in patient pathways Excellent communication & relationship skills Evidence of analytical & judgement skills Ability to prioritise workload & excellent organisational skills NMC or HCPC and degree in nursing/AHP Masters degree or working towards Budget management Evidence of team working & knowledge of NHS issues Experience

NMC or HCPC and degree in nursing/AHP Relevant study/experience in MND and post reg experience in Mentor qualification & experience of supervision Research and teaching experience Effective resource management Leadership and time management skills Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

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