Overview
We are on the lookout for an enthusiastic and highly skilled Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS) to join our Neurology team at Imperial College Healthcare Trust. This role focuses on providing expert care and support to patients with epilepsy, offering a remarkable opportunity to contribute to a holistic and patient-centred epilepsy care service. As a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Epilepsy, your primary responsibilities will include leading the delivery and coordination of specialised nursing care for epilepsy patients, managing a caseload of patients, encompassing assessment, diagnosis, and treatment planning, and providing expert advice and education to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals across various care settings, including primary, secondary, and social care. You will run nurse-led clinics and play a significant role in service development, audit, and education initiatives. The ideal candidate will possess advanced clinical assessment skills, be capable of working autonomously, and demonstrate a compassionate, patient-focused approach with excellent communication and leadership skills. A willingness to travel across sites and collaborate effectively with multidisciplinary teams is essential.
Responsibilities
* Lead specialist epilepsy services across the region
* Accept referrals from GPs, neurologists, oncologists, and obstetricians
* Deliver advanced assessments, diagnosis, and treatment plans
* Run nurse-led outpatient clinics (1 new patient + 2 follow-ups weekly)
* Manage drug therapy, emergency care planning, and ongoing reviews
* Maintain high standards of clinical documentation
* Contribute to audits, research, and service development
* Act as a Trust-wide advisor and champion epilepsy education across the system, empower patients and carers with knowledge on management, legal rights, and lifestyle adaptations, and contribute to national and international study days
Communication & Collaboration
You'll be a connector – translating complex information with clarity and compassion. You’ll work closely with multidisciplinary teams, epilepsy associations, and community resources to ensure every patient receives holistic, joined-up care.
Qualifications & Skills
* Advanced clinical assessment skills
* Ability to work autonomously
* Compassionate, patient-focused approach
* Excellent communication and leadership skills
* Willingness to travel across sites and collaborate with multidisciplinary teams
Working for our organisation
At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care. Become part of a vibrant team living our values – expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You\'ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.
Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Optional benefits include Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities. We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.
About Imperial College Healthcare
With five world-renowned hospitals, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust is full of opportunity if you are looking to develop your healthcare career. We are an NHS Trust of approximately 16,000 people, providing care for over a million and a half patients from north west London and beyond every year. We have a rich heritage and an ambitious vision for the future of our patients and local communities. With our partners, Imperial College London, and The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, we form Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre, one of 6 academic health science centres in the UK, working to ensure the rapid translation of research for better patient care and excellence in education. We are proud of our heritage in innovation and we are early adopters of new insights in technologies, techniques and treatments for improving health.
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