We are seeking two motivated and experienced Neurology Specialist Nurses to join our team based at Dereham Hospital and covering North, Norwich and South Norfolk. This role involves delivering high-quality, person-centred care to individuals living with complex neurological conditions, including Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neurone Disease, Parkinson’s Disease, Huntington’s Disease, and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.
Working across community settings, clinics, and patients’ homes, you will provide expert assessment, care planning, and ongoing management to support patients in maintaining independence and quality of life. You will play a key role in coordinating care across multidisciplinary teams and partner organisations, helping to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and facilitate timely discharge.
As a senior member of the team, you will demonstrate advanced clinical and leadership skills, provide education to healthcare professionals, and support the development and supervision of junior staff. The role requires strong communication skills, the ability to work autonomously, and a commitment to delivering compassionate, evidence-based care.
- To provide high quality, personalised, ongoing specialist and patient centred care for people with a confirmed neurological disease to maximise quality of life, within their own homes, care homes, the travelling community and in clinics.
- To be responsible for the direct line management of junior staff within the Central Neurological Specialist Nurse team.
- Neurological conditions to be supported: Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neurone Disease, Progressive Supranuclear Palsy, Parkinson's Disease and Huntington's Disease.
- To be aware of National Policy/Guidance relating to the care of patients with neurological conditions and implement locally, as appropriate.
- To establish clear links with other providers (secondary care, voluntary sector and Social Services) to ensure co-ordinated interventions.
- To provide education to other members of healthcare teams.
Please see the job description for a more complete list of duties.
Please note, the selection processes at East of England Community Health and Care NHS Trust are in place to ensure we recruit candidates with the right values and skills, please be advised that the use of AI in applications are monitored. We remain watchful of candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.
- To apply advanced clinical and leadership skills to ensure that the most appropriate care and support are always delivered.
- To assess and prescribe care packages for patients with neurological conditions to achieve quality of life and independence where possible.
- To work with the integrated team to facilitate early discharge from hospital.
- To work with the integrated team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital or hospital visits.
- To work with locality-based teams to support the patient in their own home.
- To work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non-statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.
- To be responsible for all HR issues such as disciplinary, grievances and probationary.
Please see the job description for a more complete list of duties.
