Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Practitioner

Job summary

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. You can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for the post by assessing your circumstances against criteria specified on the gov.uk website.

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.

About us

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.