Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Gastroenterology

NHS; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare provider in Liverpool is seeking an Advanced Nurse Practitioner to work in gastroenterology. The role involves delivering high-quality patient care, managing admissions, and performing specialist assessments. Candidates should have a clinical degree, advanced practice training, and strong leadership skills. This opportunity allows for skill development and collaboration with healthcare professionals in a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable relevant experience within the specialty.
• Evidence of effective management and leadership skills.
• Understanding and application of healthcare governance.

Responsibilities

• Manage admission process for patients attending day case.
• Audit and research to improve care protocols.
• Specialist assessment of patient's needs.

Skills

High standards of patient care

Basic IT skills

Education

Clinical Professional Qualification (Degree Level)

MSc Advanced Clinical Practice or commitment to complete

Teaching and assessing qualification

Prescriber qualification

Job description

Overview

Go back Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Gastroenterology

The closing date is 14 October 2025

We are looking for a dynamic nurse who wants to succeed and can work under pressure and deliver world class care to patients.

This is a brilliant opportunity for an experienced specialist nurse to extend their skill set and train to be an Advanced Nurse Practitioner. Working on the Gastroenterology wards, you will gain new skills, working closely with Consultants and complete the Nurse prescribing course.

Main duties

• To improve the experience and outcomes of care for the patients by taking the lead in investigations and treatments prescribed.
• To provide a consistent and personalised service by ensuring that the patient receives the best care, in the best place from the best person or team.
• To provide social, emotional, and psychological support for patients from referral and throughout their treatment.
• To deliver expert specialist evidence based care including development, assessment, planning, implementing, evaluating programmes of evidence based nursing care for a defined caseload.
• To make appropriate referral to Consultants/other specialist members of the multidisciplinary team in primary, secondary or tertiary care settings.
• To be aware of risk management issues both locally and nationally and develop strategies to address identified issues.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

For roles at Liverpool Women's, visit their careers page.

Job responsibilities

Key Responsibilities:

• Manage admission process for patients attending day case
• Meet objectives set out by Gastroenterology Care group
• Audit and research
• Effective use of physical and financial resources
• Specialist assessment of patient's needs, plan implement and evaluate care delivery using advanced knowledge and clinical skills

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Clinical Professional Qualification. Degree level with appropriate registration
• MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (ACP) or started the MSc ACP pathway/programme and committed to completing within an agreed time frame: Note: Post holder will be in a training post (Annex 21) until evidence of completion of MSc ACP is provided
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Prescriber
• Evidence of participation in audit and research

Experience

• Demonstrable relevant experience within the speciality
• Evidence of effective management
• Evidence of effective leadership skills
• Evidence of staff development
• Evidence of change management
• Evidence of application of current clinical service issues and developments

Knowledge

• Understanding and application of healthcare governance

Skills

• Committed to delivering high standards of patient care
• Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing

Other

• Supportive of colleagues
• Enthusiastic and motivated with the ability to motivate the team
• High level of personal and professional credibility
• Act as role model for staff

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.

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