Community Parkinson’s Specialist Practitioner/Nurse in Harpenden

Pulse Nursing are offering a variety of day shifts for experienced Community Parkinson’s Specialist Practitioner/Nurse in Harpenden Our Community Parkinson’s Nurses provide care to clients with a variety of needs within their home environment throughout the community.

We currently have a new opportunity At pulse for two Community Parkinson’s Specialist Nurses, for full/part time working hours.  Please see below description of role To minimise the effect of PD on patients’ lives by providing crisis intervention, stabilising conditions, and preventing unnecessary A&E attendances/hospital admissions and to decrease the length of hospital stays accordingly

 shifts available from 7:30am to 7:30pm, Monday-Friday hours are flexible

Rates £30-£50

responsibilities includes:

• To develop and deliver a specialist community based service for patients with Parkinson’s Disease (PD).
• Acting as an expert authority in Parkinson’s Disease
• Working closely with Patients/Carers as well as Consultants/GPs/Therapists/Social Services and other stake holders across the primary and secondary care  
• To build and maintain key working relationships with the Neuro Services

To build key relationships with referring services

Requirement for the nurse:

• Have work with Parkinson’s for 6 mouths in the last 2 years
• Must be a meds prescriber and understand PD med.
• Able to manager own workload
  • Work well on own
  • Triage patients / then seeing patients.
  • Deal with incoming calls from the existing patient cohort – currently if patients call in they are told there is no one in post!
  • Completing admin for each patient.
• Refer / signpost patients and families to other services (harm prevention).
• Once appointments start see between 3 / 4 patients a day.  3 if home visits due to travel, 4 if in clinic
• Car driver is a must

As a Community Parkinson’s  Nurse, you will receive the following benefits:

• Be partnered with a dedicated consultant to support you throughout your onboarding, compliance and booking stages
• Be able to access reliable booking team which works 24/7 and can support you day or night.
• Receive rewarding, competitive pay rates and bonuses of up to £500 for recommending your friends*
• Quick, easy and convenient online recruitment process
• Ability to update your availability and book your own shifts with our free smartphone app, ipoint
• Access to a wide variety of shifts across the UK and which suits your lifestyle
• Paid Mileage – Rates to be confirmed.
• Free uniform

If you are interested in discussing this opportunity further, please apply today and a member of our team will contact as soon as possible. Or give us a call and we will be here ready to answer any of your questions on 0333 577 3410 Option 1, Option 3.