Clinical Nurse - Inflammatory Bowel Disease Service

Integrated Care System; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is seeking an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nurse Specialist to join their team. The ideal candidate will provide excellent patient-focused care and support, working alongside healthcare teams to ensure timely treatment and advice. Candidates should have substantial nursing experience and a commitment to patient care. The role offers competitive salary and various employee benefits.

Benefits

Generous pension scheme

27 days annual leave

NHS discounts

Health and Wellbeing programme

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with proven experience at Band 6.
• Evidence of implementing significant changes that promote good practice.
• Experience of relevant specialties.

Responsibilities

• Provide clinical expertise and support to patients and families.
• Ensure safe delivery and coordination of patient care.
• Offer an advice line for timely access to expert support.

Skills

Leadership skills

Excellent interpersonal communication skills

Ability to work under pressure

Staff motivation

Education

Teaching / mentorship qualification

Relevant degree

Job description

Go back East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Clinical Nurse - Inflammatory Bowel Disease Service

The closing date is 27 August 2025

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Nurse Specialist to join our established Nurse Specialist Team at Ipswich Hospital.

Our dedicated Nurse Specialists provide an excellent, patient focused service to support and manage patients with a diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease. This service is forward thinking and continually reviews and develop innovative models of care to ensure patients are provided with appropriate and timely treatment.

The ideal person would have recent IBD /gastroenterology nursing experience with a strong motivation and dedication to develop themselves and the service.If you would like to join our friendly, well established team and deliver a high quality service to our patients, we want to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

In this role, you will provide clinical expertise and support to patients, their family and carers. You will ensure safe delivery and continuing of patient care by co-ordinating them through their patient pathway.

You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, liaising with health care teams both internal and external to the organisation.

You will provide an advice line service so that patients can access expert advice in a timely manner.

You will have had experience of working on your own initiative and prioritising workload, as well as having excellent communication skills.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Experience

• Registered Nurse with proven experience at Band 6.
• Evidence of implementing significant changes or service developments that promote good practice.
• Leadership course
• Experience of relevant specialities

Qualifications

• Teaching / mentorship qualification e.g. ENB 998 or equivalent
• Evidence of continuing education
• Relevant degree or working towards
• Advanced Life Support provider / other course of similar calibre

Knowledge

• Knowledge of current Trust wide and Department of Health initiatives
• Knowledge of shared Governance
• Evidence, understanding and insight into current issues in nursing and the NHS.
• Demonstrates ability to influence and manage successfully.
• Clinical expert and role model

Skills

• Leadership skills with evidence of staff motivation and team building
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills, both verbal and written
• Professional role model
• Ability to work under pressure
• Recruitment and selection skills
• Involvement in standard setting and audit
• Experience with managing a budget

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.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum pro rata