Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical Nurse Specialist (Complex Epilepsy)
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About the Role
We are a looking for a motivated, enthusiastic and inspiring senior nurse with experience in Paediatric Complex Epilepsy to join our team. This is a specialist role with strong focus on the management of children and young people with a diagnosis of complex epilepsy undergoing medication, ketogenic diet therapies, as well as supporting transition from Paediatric to adult epilepsy services.
You should have an in-depth understanding of the delivery of safe and high-quality care, as well as supporting and driving quality improvement across the neuroscience unit. You will be visible and accessible, act as a role model and hold responsibility to contribute to high-quality epilepsy inpatient and outpatient care delivery.
Responsibilities
- Take responsibility for a defined caseload at GOSH within the Complex Epilepsy including ketogenic diet and transition, working in conjunction with the Epilepsy CNS team, Neurologists, Specialist dieticians, and ACP for Epilepsy Surgery ensuring continuity of quality service to young people under our care.
- Provide effective nursing leadership, expertise, advice, and support to the team/department and ensure the provision of high-quality care to children and families.
- Act as a role model and highly competent practitioner.
- Act as a designated resource to children and families, and other shared care professionals.
- Provide nursing leadership to develop, deliver, and evaluate services.
- Support the effective management of patient activity throughout the care pathway with a focus on continuous quality improvement.
- Complete workload activity recording in line with Trust Policy.
- Ensure that all staff caring for children in the caseload have up-to-date clinical skills knowledge and competence.
- Foster environments conducive to learning, inquiry, and research and to support the identification of the training and development needs of nursing staff/learners in the department.
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Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
We are committed to recruiting the best person for the job through a fair, open, and consistent process that is free from bias and discrimination.
- We are working towards becoming an anti-racist organisation. This means creating a workplace where every colleague feels seen, heard, and valued, and where racism in any form has no place. Our anti-racism commitment is backed by action through our Anti-Racism Statement and action plan, developed in collaboration with our REACH staff network.
- We actively challenge discrimination, dismantle barriers, and embed equity across all aspects of our workforce, including recruitment, progression, and development. All applicants will receive equal consideration regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, religion or belief, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, health condition, or employment history.
- We particularly welcome applications from ethnically diverse communities, people with disabilities or long-term health conditions, and LGBTQ+ community members. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a member of the Business Disability Forum, and a Stonewall Diversity Champion.
- Our staff networks, including REACH, PRIDE, ENABLED, and Women’s Networks, are active and executive supported. These employee-led networks play a vital role in shaping an inclusive culture at GOSH and are open to all colleagues.
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Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Nicky Barnes
- Job title: Advanced Nurse Practitioner
- Email address: nicola.barnes@gosh.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0207 405 9200 ext 1592
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