Job summary
- Main area
- Epilepsy
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- 15 months (End date of fixed term contract September 2026)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 434-SCS7155727
- Employer
- Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Stoke Mandeville Hospital
- Town
- Stoke Mandeville
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
BOB ICB Lead Epilepsy Nurse
Band 8a
Be part of our BHT family
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.
We care for over half a million patients every year:
- provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
- nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
- regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
- deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.
More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.
We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.
If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.
Job overview
Working autonomously at an advanced clinical and leadership level to instruct and coordinate delivery of patient care and KPIs, within the aims of the role and wider pilot.
Provide leadership and management to the Band 7 Epilepsy Nurse Specialists within Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust and provide an advisory and supportive resource to the Band 7 Epilepsy Nurse Specialists recruited to the other Acute Trusts within BOB ICB as part of the Pilot
Main duties of the job
This job is supported by Buckinghamshire Oxford and Berkshire West Integrated Care Board (BOB ICB) on behalf of the NHS England.
The purpose of this role is to develop excellence in Paediatric Epilepsy Service Delivery within Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust and facilitate learning across the BOB ICB system footprint, including supporting the other acute trusts within the ICB to meet the KPI's within the pilot. This will include co-ordinating and reporting data to the BOB ICB Epilepsy Integrated Delivery Network to report into the CYP Transformation Programme. The role will support the provision of care for CYP with Epilepsy, including supporting the continuity of care across tertiary, secondary, primary, community and school health and mental health services where applicable.
The objective is to demonstrate the value of Epilepsy Specialist Nurses (ESNs) working across a system and across traditional healthcare-setting boundaries. We will ideally be looking to particularly work with, and improve outcomes for, those from areas of higher deprivation or with additional needs such as medical complexity, learning disability and autism, or transitioning to adult care.
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
Working for our organisation
Listen to why colleagues think we are a great place to work! - BHT - A great place to work (buckshealthcare.nhs.uk)
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
- As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
- We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
- We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
- We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
- As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
- Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
- A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.
What do we stand for?
- Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
- Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
- Our care values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number
Person specification
Academic / Professional Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- NMC Registration
- Educated to masters level or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Extensive knowledge of specialist areas, acquired through post graduate diploma or equivalent experience or training plus further specialist knowledge or experience to master’s level equivalent.
- Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development.
- Must have an understanding of the background to and aims of current healthcare policy and appreciate the implications of this on engagement.
- Should have an appreciation of the relationship between the Department of Health & Social Care and individual provider and commissioning organisation.
- Leadership and Management Training.
- Independent prescriber V300.
Knowledge / Experience
Essential criteria
- Advanced theoretical and practical specialist knowledge across the range of Paediatric epilepsy underpinned by theoretical knowledge and relevant practical experience.
- Substantial broad experience relevant to area of practice, with evidence of managing/ leading a team.
- Advanced clinical assessment and history taking skills to enable accurate assessment and diagnosis of complex conditions appropriate to Paediatric epilepsy.
Desirable criteria
- Advanced clinical diagnostic skills including the ability to interpret EEG reports, blood tests and interventions ordered.
- Experience of using data and information in planning and providing services.
- Previous involvement in network or system level working and/or implementing pilot projects.
Communication Skills
Essential criteria
- Must be able to provide and receive highly complex, sensitive or contentious information, and negotiate with senior stakeholders.
- Demonstrate effective stakeholder management across different departments.
- Negotiate on difficult and controversial issues including performance and change.
Analytical
Essential criteria
- Problem solving skills and ability to respond to sudden unexpected demands.
- Ability to analyse complex facts and situations and develop a range of options.
- Takes decisions on difficult and contentious issues where there may be a number of courses of action.
- Strategic thinking – ability to anticipate and resolve problems before they arise.
Planning Skills
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate capability to plan over short, medium and long-term timeframes and adjust plans and resource requirements accordingly.
Desirable criteria
- Comprehensive experience of project principles techniques and tools such as Prince 2 and Managing Successful Projects.
Management Skills
Essential criteria
- Must be able to prioritise own work effectively and be able to direct activities of others. Experience of managing and motivating a team and reviewing performance of the individuals.
Autonomy/Freedom to Act
Essential criteria
- Must be able to use initiative to decide relevant actions and make recommendations to Sponsor/ Manager, with the aim of improving deliverables and compliance to policies.
- Ability to make decisions autonomously, when required, on difficult issues, working to tight and often changing timescales.
- Experience of identifying and interpreting National policy. Experience of researching best practice (globally, private and public sector), interpreting its relevance and processes/ practices which could be implemented successfully to achieve system reform (advising on policy implementation)
Physical Skills
Essential criteria
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Office with intermediate keyboard skills, Electronic Patient Records, and other relevant Trust and ICB clinical systems.
- Able to collate and clearly present information.
Equality and Diversity
Essential criteria
- Needs to have a thorough understanding of and commitment to equality of opportunity and good working relationships both in terms of day-to-day working practices, but also in relation to management systems.
Financial and Physical Resources + Other section of person specification
Essential criteria
- Previously responsible for a budget, involved in budget setting and working knowledge of financial processes.
- Able to work autonomously and show initiative, proactively driving forward the development of a team and achievement of targets.
- Able to build relationships quickly with a variety of stakeholders, including epilepsy teams at local Trusts as well as ICBs and NHSE.
- Able to train, mentor and support more junior staff and build trust and strong working relationships within a team
- Used to working in a busy environment.
- Adaptability, flexibility and ability to cope with uncertainty and change.
- Willing to engage with and learn from peers, other professionals and colleagues in the desire to provide or support the most appropriate interventions.
- Professional calm and efficient manner.
- Effective organizer, influencer and networker.
- Demonstrates a strong desire to improve performance and make a difference by focusing on goals.
- Completer/Finisher.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Charlotte Mead
- Job title
- BOB ICB Lead Epilepsy Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07929831210
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