Job Overview
We are looking for a registered children's nurse with post registration experience to join the epilepsy team in Southern Derbyshire and East Staffordshire.
We provide accessible high quality, comprehensive health care for children and families in Derby and Burton. This is an exciting opportunity to work across 2 sites within the same Trust, supported by an enthusiastic and friendly Epilepsy Team.
We work within a committed multidisciplinary team which includes dieticians, neurophysiologists and an award winning youth team.
We offer Video EEG telemetry and a teenage clinic for young adults. We hold weekly epilepsy team meetings and monthly peer review sessions. We hold 10 joint tertiary neurology clinics per year and we are part of the Children's Epilepsy Work stream in Trent.
PREVIOUS APPLICANTS NEED NOT APPLY
Main duties of the job
The role will involve providing expert information, education and support to children and their families ensuring rapid access to advice via a telephone helpline and in the consultant led clinic setting. The successful applicant will be an educational resource for health care professionals (hospital and community-based) in delivering current best practice for Epilepsy and will take part in the Epilepsy 12 audit.
The post holder will have the opportunity to build upon their existing knowledge and skills and further develop their own nursing practice.
Closing date of applications: 19 February 2026
Interview date: 5 March 2026
Working for our organisation
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In Return We Will Offer:
Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development
On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes
Key Facts:
We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
We are the 4 th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
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Person specification
Essential Criteria
Education, Training and Qualifications CPD Requirements
RN Child/RSCN
Desirable criteria
Evidence of continual professional development
Experience & Knowledge
Essential criteria
Experience in the care of children & young people with epilepsy
Substantial post qualification nursing experience
Skills And Ability
Essential criteria
IT skills
Communication skills
Ability to work with minimal supervision at times
Able to demonstrate the ability to manage own workload and prioritise as necessary
Able to demonstrate contribution of nursing role to clinical governance
Essential Criteria
Planning and Organisational Skills
Under the supervision of the lead epilepsy nurse manages specialist workload within the clinical area, prioritising as necessary