The Paediatric Epilepsy Nursing Team provides high-quality, child centred nursing care to children and young people with acute, complex, and long-term health needs within their own homes, schools, and community settings. The team plays a vital role in ensuring that children receive safe, effective, and compassionate care close to home, reducing unnecessary hospital admissions and promoting continuity of care across services.
Working as an integrated part of the wider Children and Young Peoples Service, the team collaborates closely with families, carers, schools, primary care, social care, and hospital-based paediatric services. The team delivers specialist nursing interventions, supports early discharge, provides ongoing condition management, and empowers families through education, teaching, and shared decision-making.
The Paediatric Epilepsy Nursing Team aims to promote independence, wellbeing, and the best possible health outcomes for children and young people. Through evidence-based practice, effective case management, and multi-agency working, the team ensures that care is responsive, accessible, and tailored to the individual needs of each child and family.
Main duties of the job
Provide specialist nursing careto children and young people with epilepsy and other complex health needs within community and outpatient settings, ensuring practice is safe, evidence-based, and child-centred.
Act as a key workerfor an allocated caseload, coordinating personalised care plans and ensuring timely assessment, treatment, review, and follow-up.
Support early discharge and prevent avoidable admissionsthrough effective clinical assessment, timely intervention, and partnership working with families and the wider multidisciplinary team.
Lead and contribute to nurse-led clinics,delivering advanced clinical assessments, education, medication reviews, and ongoing management within agreed clinical pathways.
Promote seamless transitionforyoung people moving from paediatric to adult epilepsy or community services, ensuring clear communication and collaborative planning.
Work collaboratively across the multi-disciplinary team, contributing to integrated care planning, case discussions, safeguarding processes, and service development.
Participate in clinical audit, data collection, and quality improvement,supporting continuous improvement of the epilepsy service and demonstrating compliance with national standards and guidance.
Maintain accurate, contemporaneous clinical records, adhering to professional standards, Trust policy, and information governance requirements
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills
* IT Skills
* Ability to manage a caseload
* Flexible approaches to personalised care
* Ability to work with the multi-disciplinary team
* Experience of completing audits
* Understanding of transition frameworks
* Experience being an autonomous worker
* Cost improvement initiative experience
* Knowledge of epilepsy 12 audit and other KPIs
Qualification and Training
* Registered Childrens Nurse
* Teaching Qualification
* Independent/ Supplementary nurse prescribing
Experience
* Working as part of a team
* Safeguarding of children and young people
* Experience of managing children with Epilepsy
* Experience of working with children/ young people with on-going conditions
* Experience of working in the community setting
Personal Attributes
* Friendly professional manner and managing professional boundaries
* To work with minimal direct supervision
* Flexibility to meet the demands of the service
* Motivated to deliver high standards of care
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£39,959 to £48,117 a year pro rata per annum
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