About this role
Job summary
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 People's 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
About us
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust now form University Hospitals Tees and as such you may be required to work at any site across both Trusts.
At North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust, we want our organisation to be the best place to work with the right staff, in the right roles, at the right time, to ensure we deliver exceptional patient care and experience.
We will support staff through providing an inclusive and supportive workplace with health and well-being initiatives, staff benefits and opportunities for personal and professional development.
We support the 'Making Every Contact Count' approach to behaviour change in the promotion of health and wellbeing of individuals and communities.
Job description Job responsibilities
Please see attached Job description which details the main responsibilities and details of the job advertised.
Person Specification
Knowledge and Skills Essential
IT Skills Excellent Communication Skills Ability to manage a caseload Time management skills Flexible approaches to personalised care Ability to work with the multi-disciplinary team Experience of completing audits
Desirable
Understanding of transition frameworks Experience being an autonomous worker Previous service development involvement Cost improvement initiative experience Knowledge of epilepsy 12 audit and other KPIs
Qualification and Training Essential
Registered Children's Nurse Children's Nursing degree Teaching Qualification
Desirable
Independent/ Supplementary nurse prescribing
Experience Essential
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
Desirable
Experience of working in the community setting
Personal Attributes Essential
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.
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UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name North Tees & Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
Address North Tees and Hartlepool Hospital
Holdforth Road
Hartlepool
TS24 9AH
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.nth.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)