Lead Endoscopy Nurse

Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Trust; City of Westminster; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused healthcare provider is seeking a new leader for their endoscopy and decontamination department. The successful candidate will oversee daily operations, ensure high standards of patient care, and manage compliance with clinical guidelines. This role requires strong clinical expertise, operational management skills, and a commitment to improving patient pathways. Join a dedicated team in a supportive environment that values diversity and inclusion.

Benefits

Supportive work environment

Opportunities for training and development

Engagement in EDI initiatives

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical leadership roles, especially within endoscopy or a similar environment.
• Proficient in managing teams and ensuring high standards of patient care.
• Understanding of operational efficiencies in healthcare settings.

Responsibilities

• Oversee patient care and ensure high-quality service is delivered.
• Manage day-to-day operations of the endoscopy and decontamination department.
• Ensure compliance with clinical and decontamination standards.

Skills

Clinical expertise

Operational management

Patient care

Team leadership

Resource management

Education

Relevant nursing or health qualification

Job description

Overview

The successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing the daily operations of the endoscopy and decontamination department, focusing on clinical leadership, patient care and operational efficiencies. This role involves managing staff, ensuring patient safety, maintaining clinical and decontamination standards for equipment, and driving continuous improvement in patient pathways and service delivery. The main duties will generally fall into clinical, managerial, and quality improvement categories.

Responsibilities

Clinical Leadership & Patient Care:

• Oversee patient care: Ensure the assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation of high-quality, patient-centred care for all patients undergoing diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures.
• Provide clinical expertise: Act as a resource and expert advisor to staff, patients, and other departments regarding endoscopy procedures and patient management pathways.
• Maintain a safe environment: Ensure a safe environment is maintained for patients, staff and visitors, acting on discrepancies and adhering to health and safety policies.
• Assist with procedures: May be required to assist with a range of procedures and perform pre-procedure assessments as needed, maintaining clinical competency.

Managerial & Operational Duties:

• Day-to-day coordination: Manage and coordinate the daily operations of the endoscopy suite, including planning, allocation of work, and ensuring appropriate staffing and skill mix are maintained.
• Resource management: Ensure the effective and efficient use of physical and financial resources, including equipment, supplies, and staff budgets.
• Equipment management: Oversee the care, maintenance, and decontamination of endoscopes and associated equipment, ensuring compliance with relevant guidelines and full traceability.

Working for our organisation

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for—the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the five aspirations:

1. Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from Black, Asian, and ethnic minorities backgrounds, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
2. Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
3. Improving the experience of staff with disability
4. Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
5. Making equalities mainstream

As a local employer and anchor institution we work closely with our community to recruit locally and we welcome applications from the widest variety of people to ensure our workforce reflects the local communities we serve. We encourage all suitable candidates to apply including if you are Black, Asian or other ethnic minorities, live with a disability (visible or not) or are LGBT+. We have a number of active staff networks including Disability, LGBT+, Multicultural Inclusion and Women’s staff networks to bring staff together and celebrate diversity across our whole workforce. Please note that sponsorship under the Skilled Worker route is subject to Trust allocation and UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) approval.

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust (LGT) is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most. Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.

We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10—the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional in the quality of our patient care, our support for colleagues, and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities. To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here. Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as "good" or "outstanding" in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission. Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments. LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician assistants in the country. We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.