Job Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for the right candidates to join our Parkinson's team .



We would welcome all candidates with transferable skills and are offering this as a development opportunity for band 5 or band 6 Nurses with a specific interest in Parkinson's and other movement disorders. We are offering hours trust wide .



Our Parkinson's team provide excellent clinical management to people with Parkinson's and other related neurological conditions. We work to deliver multidisciplinary evidence based practice that improves outcomes for patients and their carers, providing strategies and interventions to achieve goals and embed self management. Through out all sites in the trust.



Provide skilled and knowledgeable care and advice to patients and their carers.



Complete assessments , planning , implementing and evaluating direct care to patients.



Work collaboratively with all members of the multidisciplinary team.



Contribute to the high quality Parkinson's service with in Northumbria trust.



We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.



Our Parkinson's team provide excellent clinical management to people with Parkinson's and other related neurological conditions. We work to deliver multidisciplinary evidence based practice that improves outcomes for patients and their carers, providing strategies and interventions to achieve goals and embed self management throughout all sites in the trust.