Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is recruiting a Band 6 - Neurology Nurse Practitioner.
Closing date: 25 May 2026.
Role Overview
The Neurology Nurse Practitioner will deliver a high‑quality, patient‑centred specialist nursing service to individuals with neurological conditions across Gloucestershire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will work across both acute hospital sites (Cheltenham General Hospital and Gloucestershire Royal Hospital) and community settings across Gloucestershire County, supporting outpatient clinics, inpatient care and undertaking home visits where clinically appropriate.
Key Responsibilities
* Work flexibly across CGH, GRH, outpatient clinics, inpatient wards and community settings.
* Support delivery of neurology services across Gloucestershire County.
* Undertake home visits and community‑based assessments.
* Contribute to integrated care pathways, ensuring continuity between acute and community services.
* Support nurse‑led and consultant‑led clinics, including follow‑up and review of patients.
* Participate in telephone advice lines and virtual consultations.
Main Duties
As a registered nurse, the incumbent will, with adequate training, supervision and assessment,:
* Provide prescribed medical treatments within Trust, professional and national policy frameworks.
* Practice in compliance with the code of professional conduct and within your agreed scope of practice.
* Perform comprehensive assessment of patient nursing needs, plan, implement and evaluate care delivery.
* Perform advanced clinical skills in assessment and/or diagnosis and/or treatment.
* Accept patient referrals, refer on as appropriate and plan and instigate discharge from care.
* Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records.
* Involve patients and carers/relatives in the planning and delivery of care and development of services.
* Work collaboratively with other professionals and agencies to ensure patient needs are met, especially in relation to ongoing care needs and discharge arrangements.
* Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers/relatives, and professionals across health and social services.
* Practice with a high degree of competency and advise within the specialist area.
Qualifications and Training
* Active registration with the NMC as a Registered Nurse.
* Evidence of ongoing professional development through maintenance of a professional portfolio, registration revalidation and commitment to lifelong learning.
* Non‑medical prescribing, with evidence of up‑to‑date knowledge of appropriate prescribing for patient groups or willingness to undertake the course.
Knowledge and Skills
* Able to manage differentiated and undifferentiated presentations and complex situations to make evidence‑based judgements.
* Demonstrate the role of education in this post and how the specialist would address educational needs.
* Excellent presentational, communication and interpersonal skills.
* Act as a specialist clinical expert in direct contact care, making high‑level skill decisions, informed by advanced diagnostic, assessment and treatment skills.
* Demonstrate ability to use clinical reasoning skills and techniques to assess, diagnose, plan and offer a range of treatment options; deliver, evaluate and amend the treatment plan.
* Act as an expert resource in educating the wider multidisciplinary team in the safe and appropriate management of patients who present to the service on referral and facilitate ongoing education needs to allow discharge planning.
* Act as a role model and lead by example to ensure the Trust's values and behaviours are reinforced throughout the area of practice.
* Develop professional and management procedures within own area and across several related disciplines relevant to the service area.
* Understand legislation in relation to People with Learning Disabilities.
* Operational management experience including experience of managing and developing multi‑disciplinary or integrated pathway teams in a variety of locations.
* Experience of developing advanced practice guidelines, governance and audit.
Clinical Experience
* Experience (through placement or employment) of working in an acute clinical environment.
* Previous experience in a relevant speciality.
* Extensive experience of working with people who have neurological conditions.
* Co‑ordinate and utilise skills to assess, plan, take appropriate action/intervention and evaluate care interventions for individuals with neurological conditions, in line with the National Service Framework (NSF) for long‑term conditions and NICE guidelines.
Personal Attributes
* Display a caring attitude to patients, their relatives, colleagues and yourself in a stressful environment.
* Demonstrate the enhanced aptitude required to initiate, evaluate and modify a range of interventions.
* Resilient under pressure, whilst understanding own limitations.
* Supports the Band 7 and ACP and act as a specialist clinical expert in direct contact care, making high‑level skill decisions, informed by advanced diagnostic, assessment and treatment skills.
* Ability to organise and prioritise own workload effectively.
* Demonstrate a critical understanding of own level of responsibility, including when working with complexity, risk, uncertainty and incomplete information.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post requires a Disclosure and Barring Service check under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975.
Salary
£39,959 to £48,117 a year (pro‑rated if part‑time).
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is crucial to ensuring fairness, celebrating differences and creating environments where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute.
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