Community Children's Sister Epilepsy Lead (Winchester)

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our friendly and progressive community children's nursing team. The post sits in a well-established CCN team that delivers acute, continuing and complex health care within an integrated child health team. This challenging and rewarding role offers the opportunity to meet the needs of children, young people and their families within a multidisciplinary inter agency team framework.

We are looking for an enthusiastic forward thinking paediatric nurse with community and paediatric experience, you will be a highly motivated independent practitioner with sound evidence-based skills. The post holder will be expected to lead the epilepsy service in Winchester and to ensure children with epilepsy and their families are supported with highly specialised advice and education alongside other professionals. You will work alongside the Paediatric Epilepsy Lead in Basingstoke and be supported by the band 6 epilepsy nurse. You will be responsible for contributing to the on-going service development of paediatric epilepsy services across the footprint of Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Main duties of the job

• To manage a caseload of children and young people with epilepsy, unscheduled care conditions, long term conditions, disabilities and life limiting conditions
• Act as a lead and demonstrate a high level of expertise within the community children's nursing service, providing specialist advice, education and support to patients and health care professionals
• Act as a lead and demonstrate a high level of expertise within the epilepsy service. Provide specialist advice, education and support to patients and health care professionals. Contribute to a 24 hour end of life on call service when required
• In partnership with colleagues from the multi-disciplinary team the post holder will continuously develop, implement and evaluate seamless community and epilepsy services across HHFT sites, ensuring safe, compassionate, high quality care in line with local and national strategic direction.
• In partnership with colleagues from the multi-disciplinary team the post holder will continuously develop, implement and evaluate seamless epilepsy and community services across Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust sites, ensuring safe, compassionate, high quality care.
• To work flexibly across a variety of community settings andthe acute hospitals within the HHFT footprint and across Hampshire

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Tackling Climate Change:Hampshire Hospitals aims to embed sustainability and net zero carbon principles into the delivery of care across all its services. To find out more, searchHHFT Climate Actionor contactclimateaction@hhft.nhs.uk.