Job overview

Are you looking for your new challenge, do you want to make a difference to the lives of children and young people in with epilepsy? An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced, innovative and motivated Children’s Registered Nurse to join Staffordshire Children’s Hospital at the Royal Stoke Hospital as a band 6 Children’s Epilepsy Nurse.

We are looking for a dynamic and motivated individual with experience in caring for children with epilepsy. You will be fully supported to develop existing and new skills working within a framework of competence. You will be supported by a Childrens Epilepsy Nurse Specialist.

We are looking for a caring individual with the knowledge base and skills requires for caring for children with epilepsy and their families. The candidate will need to demonstrate leadership and communication skills, be innovative and flexible and committed to evidence-based care.

If you can work independently and collaboratively with the team to support the development  and delivery of a specialist epilepsy service please contact Matron Emma Kelsall for an informal discussion on 01782 675125

Main duties of the job

The Children’s Epilepsy Nurse will work as part of an expanding team working alongside clinicians with a specialist interest in Epilepsy.  The post holder will provide specialist nursing skills, knowledge and expertise to children, young people and their families/carers with a diagnosis or potential diagnosis of epilepsy and will be a point of contact between primary, secondary, tertiary care and the wider multi-disciplinary team.  They will facilitate best practice and evidence-based care for children and young people with a diagnosis of epilepsy.

Working for our organisation

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential. 

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

The Child Health Directorate is a multifaceted and dynamic directorate which comprises of a regional Children’s Critical Care Unit, an acute Medical ward and a surgical and oncology inpatient ward with a co-located surgical day case unit and co-located oncology day case unit. We have a children’s outpatient department at RSUH and the County site and two emergency portals of entrance, the Children’s Assessment Unit and the Children’s Emergency Department.