Job overview

• The Bexley ALD Epilepsy Team is a newly established service. The post holder will be expected to positively contribute towards the progression of the service.
• The post holder will be a member of the Bexley ALD Epilepsy Service, working under the consultant and epilepsy specialist nurse.
• They will provide specific skilled support to aid the epilepsy team in the assessment and management of adults with a learning disability and epilepsy.
• They will also help support with epilepsy training to service providers and carers across the Bexley Borough.
• The post holder will be expected to facilitate group work with clients and carers.
• They will share a caseload with the epilepsy specialist nurse and will be expected to work unsupervised at times.

Main duties of the job

• Under the guidance and supervision of the consultant and epilepsy specialist nurse, the post holder will be expected to hold a small caseload of clients with epilepsy and possible other complex health needs, taking responsibility for implementing and reinforcing interventions.
• To report back client progress or problems to the qualified clinicians.
• To work with clients individually or in a group, in a variety of settings. 
• To engage and participate in the assessment of clients in the community including:

-Information gathering through liaison with clients, carers and the MDT.

-Monitoring and reviewing an individual’s epilepsy.

-Contributing to clinical and non-clinical reviews, this may include obtaining vital signs (blood pressure, temperature, pulse, heart rate, respiration rate).

-Offering guidance and advice in relation to seizure and risk management.

 Liaise with primary and secondary care services such as GP practices and local Neurology services to support with care delivery.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care