Vacancies

Parkinson’s Nurse/Therapist

Main Responsibility

Some of your responsibilities will include:

• To provide advanced clinical nursing support for patients with complex long-term conditions and/ or elderly/frail.
• Working as an autonomous practitioner, the post holder will effectively manage a caseload of patients with long term conditions, stratified as high risk.
• Working in collaboration with appropriate health and social care professionals, the post holder will ensure continuity of care; aiming to reduce preventable hospital admissions and to improve quality of care for patients with long-term conditions in their usual place of residence (own home; residential or nursing home).
• To engage with innovation, including tele technologies, to continually strive to effectively support the management of patients.
• To promote self-management strategies for patients and their carers, through education and advice, to reduce avoidable reliance on urgent services and promote positive patient outcomes.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will be a registered nurse/therapist or practitioner with at least 3 years experience of working at a Band 6 Level or currently working at a Band 7 Level. 

Some experience of working with people with Parkinson’s Disease (PD) or long-term progressive neurological conditions and a strong interest in gaining further clinical knowledge and expertise of Parkinson's disease and related disorders. 

You will have excellent communication and written skills that will enable you to provide information to support, promote and encourage independence and support decision-making relating to care and support needs. 

A UK driving licence is also essential with access to a vehicle to provide our services to the community. 

We are looking for passionate and enthusiastic specialist nurses who are looking to impact to their local community.

Package Description

An exciting and rewarding opportunity has arisen for the role of a Band 7 Parkinson’s Nurse/Therapist Specialist, to join our team. We are also offering this as a development opportunity for a Nurse or Therapist currently working at a Band 6 level, with a special interest in progressive neurological disorders (and specifically Parkinson’s disease). After successful completion of an induction and specialist training programme, you will have the future opportunity to progress to the Band 7 post. In this role you’ll be part of valued team at our Farnham Hospital, Surrey. 

You will feel values as a Parkinson's Disease Nurse/Therapist Specialist within HCRG Care group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• AFC Band 6/ AFC Band 7 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location 
• Plentiful on site-parking
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling 
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise 
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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