Advanced Multiple Sclerosis Practitioner

Job summary
This is an exciting, new opportunity for a passionate and driven senior practitioner to take up a senior band 7 nursing position within the MS service at Bristol Foundation Trust. The Band 7 will hold a professional registration with the NMC and will work as an integral member of the multi-disciplinary MS service.

The post holder will provide strong leadership and effective consultancy for patients with multiple sclerosis both internally and externally to the Trust and wider multi-disciplinary teams.

Coming from a strong background of advanced clinical practice and extensive experience working within neurology, the role of the senior Band 7 nurse will guide care for people with MS who are facing multiple, complex problems with the focus on maintaining and improving function and independence wherever possible.

This will be achieved by concentrating on ensuring people with MS are supported from diagnosis to palliative care, treatments are optimised, symptoms managed, and people are signposted to relevant support agencies.

The post holder will join an established MS nursing team and work to ensure effective service developments are achieved through reflective practice and clinical audit.

Main duties of the job
Full details within the attached job description.
In brief, this post will:

• Plan care in partnership with the person with MS, and their carer, actively facilitating their choice and involvement in decision making.
• Coordinates programmes of care with other health and social care professionals.
• Independently conduct neurological examinations and objective measures of patient function.
• Competently review and interpret data generated through these assessments and revises the care plan in conjunction with the person with MS, their carer, and other appropriate members of the team accordingly.
• Apply high-level assessment and consultation skills.
• Support patients who are newly diagnosed, facilitate commencing them on disease modifying treatments, reviewing symptom management and signposting to the relevant supporting agency.
• Supports and advises colleagues who are caring for people with MS to help them to deliver high quality, cost effective, specialist care, which optimises outcomes for people with MS and their families.

About us
Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer. Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we're meeting our pledge.

Details
Date posted: 26 October 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum, pro rata
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time, Job share
Reference number: 339-NMSK1520-ALX

Job responsibilities
Full details within the attached job description.

• Improve patient care through reflective practice and clinical audit.
• Establishing clear care pathways for people with MS by recognising clinical guidelines and recognised national guidelines.
• Promoting and providing individualised holistic care to people with MS.

The post holder will establish key process indicators for the Service and will use audit/data collection to evaluate the impact of the MS Service.

Key Process Indicators (KPIs) will include:

• Timely access to disease modifying therapy.
• Support of newly diagnosed in a timely manner as per national guidelines.
• Reduction of unnecessary polypharmacy.
• Improvement in outcomes for patients with MS and their families.
• Increased support and training for other HCPs working with patients with MS.

To enable the delivery of the KPIs the post-holder will use their leadership skills and specialist MS knowledge to establish strong links with other key colleagues, both internally and externally.

Person Specification
Education/Training/Qualifications
Essential

• Appropriate healthcare professional registration
• Extensive experience in MS and/or neurorehabilitation
• Postgraduate (MSc level) physical assessment qualification
• Evidence of academic development
• Evidence of Advanced clinical skills
• Autonomous practitioner with the ability to work creatively within the boundaries of their knowledge to co-ordinate comprehensive patient care

Desirable

• Leadership module at degree level
• Non-medical prescriber

Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details
Employer name: Bristol NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Bristol foundation Trust - Southmead Hospital, Southmead Road, Westbury-on Trym, Bristol, BS10 5NB, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.nbt.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Clinical Lead nurse in MS, NMSK, Denise Owen, Denise.owen5@nhs.net, 01174148288