Job summary
- Main area
- Neurology
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday-Friday)
- Job ref
- 190-0533-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Hallamshire Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pa/ pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 25/07/2025
Employer heading
MND Care Coordinator
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and compassionate clinician to join our multidisciplinary team as a Motor Neurone Disease (MND) Coordinator.
As a Band 7 MND Coordinator, you will lead the coordination of care for patients with MND, supporting them and their families throughout their journey. You will work closely with neurologists, specialist nurses, allied health professionals, palliative care teams and external agencies to deliver integrated, patient-centred care.
The Sheffield Care and Research Centre for Motor Neuron Disorders is a leading centre of excellence, serving patients across South Yorkshire, North East Derbyshire, and North East Lincolnshire.
The post of MND Care Coordinator offers the opportunity to provide clinical leadership and care coordination alongside innovative service improvement and quality assurance and regional pathway development, education and training.
We are looking for someone with excellent communication, coordination and leadership skills who is compassionate, proactive and resilient, with a strong commitment to patient-centred care.
If you are a Registered Nurse or AHP (Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist, Dietician, Speech and Language Therapist) with a relevant clinical qualification with current NMC/HCPC registration and significant post-registration experience, ideally with experience in neurology, palliative care or long-term condition management we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
The MND Care Coordinator is the senior clinical role responsible for coordinating and improving care for patients with Motor Neuron Disease who attend the Sheffield MND Care and Research Centre.
They will be responsible for developing a strong focus on innovative service development, care coordination through the care pathway and addressing inequalities of care.
This role requires advanced clinical skills, leadership abilities, educational skills and a commitment to service improvement and staff development as well as the ability to deliver specialist care autonomously within an MDT setting with consultant neurologist indirect supervision.
To act as the lead specialist for the MND service taking responsibility for provision of specialist advice across the service and other professional colleagues, including service, business and strategic planning.
To act as a specialist resource / independent practitioner managing a defined caseload of patients within the agreed scope of practice.
To take a lead of delivery of education and training for the directorate and wider MDT across professional groups.
To lead change and innovation through service audit and evaluation and, in response to this develop new services in a way which promotes change for the benefit of patient care within the objectives of the business and service plan.
To develop and contribute to the development of research proposals and implement studies.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its employees. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse or AHP (PT,OT, Dietican, SLT)
- Masters level qualification in relevant specialist area OR equivalent knowledge gained through post-graduate level study, short courses and extensive experience at a senior level relevant to the specialist area to a level 7 standard
- To have completed the national practice assessor training or equivalent teaching and assessing qualification for those with ENB998.
- Post registration education relevant to the role
- Recognised Counselling qualifications/skills or willing to undertake
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate qualification in a relevant field or equivalent experience
- Leadership development programme completion
- Postgraduate qualification in a relevant field or equivalent experience.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive experience at AFC band 6 (or equivalent)
- Relevant experience caring for people with long term conditions in relevant clinical area
- Able to work effectively both autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team, crossing professional and organisational boundaries
- Computer literacy skills including knowledge of databases, power point and word Processing and patient record systems
- Supervision and line management of staff including appraisal.
- Demonstrable post-registration experience including experience / knowledge of service management / planning and delivery
- Experience of successful multiagency working and stakeholder management
Desirable criteria
- Substantial post-registration experience, including significant experience in MND or neurology
- Experience in Clinical Governance, audit, teaching and training, project management and quality improvement methodologies
- Previous experience of caring for people with MND
Further training
Essential criteria
- Proven management and leadership skills and experience.
- Ability to work autonomously as well as part of MDT.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of successful multiagency working and stakeholder management
Special skills/ Apptitude
Essential criteria
- Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Enhanced time management and organisational skills
- Enhanced communication skills with all stakeholders, colleagues and patients
- To be able to work as an autonomous practitioner, managing and prioritising own case load according to local guidelines and identified need, in a variety of settings, exercising high levels of judgment, discretion, problem solving and decision making in clinical care
- Ability to work under pressure acting as a role model for other health care professionals
- Good computer/IT skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Nina Marshall
- Job title
- Clinical Manager Neurology Nurse Specialists
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01142268564
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