Senior Clinical Parkinson's Disease Nurse Specialist

The post holder will act as a point of contact for patients experiencing problems or deterioration, providing highly specialist knowledge, skills and advice to clients and a source of expertise to health and social care professionals and others as necessary., The post holder is responsible for the assessment of care needs, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care and the setting of standards of care with indirect supervision. You will provide nursing expertise to a specific patient group and will support clinical colleagues in providing a service to the PD client group. As a member of the Elderly Care team you will develop professional relationships with CoTE Consultants, Community Geriatricians and all relevant multi-disciplinary teams to enhance the service and care pathways, supporting their families and carers. This includes linking closely to Parkinson's UK staff locally. You will assess individual patient needs for those living with Parkinson's to improve their quality of life by identifying, co-ordinating and linking to appropriate care services and therapies throughout the care pathway. You will work independently to support patients and their carers to maximise on the benefits of the Parkinson's Nurse Specialist role on care programmes, developing patient focused goals, encouraging self-care and self-management approaches. The post holder will support the development of innovative evidence practice and be responsible for audit and monitoring the quality of the Parkinson's service being provided. Work a an independent practitioner and demonstrate specialist skills and knowledge through expert nursing. Practice advanced clinical skills and maintain a high professional standard of care and expertise'

You will need excellent clinical, organizational, IT and communication skills.

The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:

• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000. The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.