Clinical Nurse Specialist Neuro muscular Disorders

Would you like to come and work within an innovative and evolving clinical nurse specialist team within the Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated individual to join our clinical nurse specialist team in Neurology as a Neuromuscular clinical specialist nurse.

The team consists of specialist neurologist, nurses and other healthcare professionals, providing specialist and patient-focused care to a large cohort of patients with a wide variety of neuromuscular conditions, including muscular dystrophies, inflammatory neuropathies and neuromuscular junction disorders. The specialist nursing team run a number of clinics, both alone and in conjunction with colleagues, and oversee management treatments such as immunoglobulin therapies and immunosuppressant medications.

As a neuromuscular specialist nurse you will work as an integral member of the team, support consultant neurologist with their caseload, and contribute to the advice line and the blood monitoring service.

Disease areas will include all types of muscular dystrophy, peripheral neuropathies, Myasthenia Gravis, Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Mitochondrial Disease, Polymyositis, Freidrichs Ataxia, Hereditary Spastic Paraparesis and Spino-cerebellar Ataxia. Motor neurone disease is excluded.

The role will be provided as a mixture of 'on the job' training and taught courses where available., You will be professionally supervised and supported by highly specialist consultants.

You must be able to communicate effectively at all levels, have an understdning of managing your own caseload, demonstrate effective teamwork and participate in ongoing audit programmes.

We provide care and support to over a million people in Wakefield and Kirklees in their homes, community settings and across our three hospital sites at Pontefract, Dewsbury and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Always striving for excellence, we are at the forefront of innovation and research, and we invest in teaching and the development of our workforce.

We live by our values of caring, improving, being respectful and maintaining high standards. We listen and learn because we aim to make Mid Yorkshire the best place to work and receive care.

We value diversity and welcome talent and enthusiasm irrespective of age, disability, neurodivergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances including providing unpaid carers support to someone with a health and care need. As ethnic minority groups, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and people with a disability/neurodivergence are currently under-represented across the organisation, we encourage applications from members of these groups. We have policies and procedures to ensure all applicants are treated fairly and consistently.

We are proud of our staff networks - who offer valuable guidance and feedback from those with lived experience.

We have a clear vision and you could be part of this! If you share our values and you want to make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families and carers, we would love to hear from you.