Advanced Nurse Practitioner - Gastroenterology

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Liverpool seeks an experienced specialist nurse to train as an Advanced Nurse Practitioner in Gastroenterology. You will lead patient investigations, deliver expert care, and provide emotional support. Candidates must have relevant clinical qualifications and demonstrate leadership and communication skills. The role offers an opportunity to work in a supportive environment committed to high standards of patient care.

Benefits

Supports flexible working arrangements

Commitment to work-life balance

Training and professional development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in a clinical environment.
• Commitment to ongoing professional development.
• Ability to work under pressure and deliver care.

Responsibilities

• Lead investigations and treatments prescribed for patients.
• Provide support for patients throughout their treatment.
• Manage admission processes for patients attending day case.

Skills

Leadership skills

Communication skills

Clinical expertise

IT skills

Education

Clinical Professional Qualification

MSc Advanced Clinical Practice

Teaching and assessing qualification

Job description

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.

Responsibilities

• 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. 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 patients' needs; plan, implement and evaluate care delivery using advanced knowledge and clinical skills.
• We are looking for a dynamic nurse who wants to succeed and can work under pressure and deliver world class care to patients.

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: The post holder will be in a training post (Annex 21) until evidence of completion of MSc ACP is provided
• Teaching and assessing qualification
• Relevant post registration qualification/equivalent
• Prescriber
• Evidence of participation in audit and research; demonstrable relevant experience within the specialty
• 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; understanding and application of healthcare governance; excellent communication skills
• Committed to delivering high standards of patient care
• Basic IT skills, including e-mail and word processing; 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; you must have appropriate UK professional registration

About the organisation

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.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months of their 18th birthday. The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working. The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce: Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME), LGBTQ+, disabled, male, and age 16-24. The Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting and processing the successful applicant’s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly installments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2 December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced). From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependants will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisation’s safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. All employees (and volunteers) are expected to maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence. If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.