Contract: 1 position, 2 year fixed term, 35hrs per week
The Brain Health Scotland initiative – hosted by Alzheimer Scotland – is seeking a motivated and experienced nurse to work in a novel clinical setting, namely the Brain Health Service – a comprehensive and fully integrated pathway to ensure early detection of Alzheimer’s disease.
Working in partnership with the NHS, Brain Health Scotland is to develop a network of clinics to undertake risk profiling, early disease detection and implementation of personalised prevention plans.
The Research Nurse will lead and deliver a two-year study within this service to evaluate the utility of cerebrospinal fluid testing in the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease, from both a clinician and patient perspective in a real-world clinical setting. They will also contribute their nursing knowledge more broadly to the development of the clinical care pathway as well as add to discussions on all aspects of the Brain Health Scotland portfolio of activities.
The early detection of disease at a pre-dementia stage presents clinical, service, and ethical challenges, which need to be fully understood and managed before national and international scale up can be achieved. An evaluation of our early disease detection programme by both the clinicians and the population it serves will provide an understanding of these challenges.
It should be noted that the majority of this research will be non-clinical and delivered through interviews, questionnaires and report writing, rather than through a clinical research programme in hospital/CRF settings.
For a full job description and person specification please view the link to the side of this advert.The successful candidate for this post will be subject to a criminal check through Disclosure Scotland. Closing date – 15 July 2021
Recruiting Manager Anna Borthwick Service Brain Health Scotland Email: [email protected]
