MND Specialist Practitioner

Exciting Opportunity: MND Specialist Practitioner

Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of people living with Motor Neurone Disease (MND)? We're looking for an exceptional, compassionate, and proactive MND Specialist Practitioner to join our dynamic multidisciplinary team.

In this rewarding role, you'll provide expert clinical support, holistic care, and specialist advice to individuals and families affected by MND — helping them navigate every stage of their journey with dignity, empathy, and confidence. You'll work collaboratively with healthcare professionals across services, lead on best practice, and drive innovation in MND care.

If you're a skilled clinician with a commitment to person-centred care, continuous learning, and making a tangible impact, this is your chance to play a key part in shaping high-quality, specialist support for people living with MND.

Provide expert, specialist assessment, advice and management for people living with Motor Neurone Disease (MND), ensuring high-quality, evidence-based, and person-centred care.

Act as a key worker and main point of contact for patients, families and carers, offering specialist guidance, emotional support, and coordination of care across all stages of the disease trajectory.

Work autonomously and as part of the Community Neuro Rehab Team (CNRT) and wider MDT including neurology, respiratory, palliative care, therapy services and community teams — to ensure a coordinated, holistic approach to care.

Develop, implement and regularly review personalised care plans , proactively addressing changing needs and supporting advance care planning discussions in line with patient preferences.

Provide specialist advice and education to colleagues across primary, secondary and community care settings to enhance knowledge, skills and confidence in the management of MND

We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.

Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.

Why work for us?

• Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Accredited Living Wage Employer, we ensure fair pay for all our staff
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust

Our values — Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence —guide everything we do.

We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.

This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.

1. Main tasks

a) Perform advanced assessments, where appropriate to the profession,

utilising specialist tools and evidence-based methods to support diagnosis and treatment planning.

b) Routinely liaise with primary/secondary/community and other agencies involved in the management of patients with specialist needs.

c) To manage caseloads and staff working in a specialist role ensuring a timely response to patients and colleagues/partners.

d) To ensure that the post holder and the specialist team are working to agreed service specifications and specialist standards of care.

e) To prepare performance reports in line with agreed service key performance indicators.

f) To provide timely specialist advice and support to patients, their relatives and carer's, other SCFT staff and our colleagues and partners in

primary/secondary and third sector organisations.

g) To design, deliver and evaluate education and training programmes

delivered to patients, staff and partners.

h) To design, deliver and evaluate staff and team development plans including annual appraisals.

i) To work as a specialist member of the MDT working within a community of practice ensuring specialist clinical support is accessible and responsive to patients, their carers and colleagues.

j) Promote, monitor and maintain best practice standards and health, safety and security within the specialist service.

1. Main responsibilities

a) Conduct advanced clinical assessments within your professional scope to support differential diagnosis and initiate treatment plans.

b) To identify, develop and review policies within the neuro-specialist area, benchmarking the service against NICE guidance relevant to a range of neurological conditions. To work within SCFT policies and guidance

c) To organise and prioritise specialty service projects assisting senior service managers in the development of the specialist service and set rotas and work plans for staff working within the service

d) To directly line manage junior members of the specialist team including

nursing, therapy and support staff as required. To assist service managers in the performance management of the team and individuals and to take the lead in recruitment processes for the specialist service

e) Act as a mentor and/or clinical educator to junior team members, students, and support staff in line with your professional registration requirements.

f) To design, deliver and evaluate programmes of education and training

provided to SCFT and to partner organisations/bodies

g) To support the effective use of resources within the specialist neuro service by contributing to informed financial decision-making. This includes working collaboratively with the designated budget holder to support financial planning, cost improvement initiatives, and service efficiencies. The post holder is also responsible for ensuring the appropriate registration, maintenance, and safe use of equipment, including the upkeep of asset and maintenance registers relevant to their area of responsibility. To work with the

trust research & development dept and partners in conducting and evaluating research and audit activity within the speciality

h) To work across other services within SCFT in response to operational

challenges ensuring practice is within sphere of competence

i) Where the post holder holds a valid Independent or Supplementary

Prescribing qualification (e.g., for nurses, physiotherapists, or pharmacists),they may undertake prescribing responsibilities in line with their professional competence, scope of practice, local clinical guidelines, and Trust policy. Prescribing must relate only to patients within the practitioner's own

Community Neuro Specialist Practitioner caseload. Non-medical prescribers (NMPs) remain personally accountable for their prescribing decisions and are responsible for maintaining safe practice, staying up to date, and working strictly within their individual level of clinical competence.