liver health checks practitioner

Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust; Guildford; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Guildford is seeking candidates for a role focused on delivering liver health assessments in primary and secondary care settings. The position includes co-coordinating care for patients, delivering community-based clinics, and collaborating with various healthcare teams. Applicants should have a nursing background or relevant skills in clinical hepatology or oncology. Join a compassionate team committed to enhancing patient care and community health.

Benefits

Comprehensive health and wellbeing program

Professional development opportunities

Outstanding Care Quality Commission rating

Qualifications

• Background in clinical hepatology, oncology, or research is advantageous.
• Induction and training available for the successful candidate.

Responsibilities

• Deliver liver health assessments in various healthcare settings.
• Coordinate care for patients with liver diseases.
• Deliver community-based liver health checks clinics.
• Provide health-promotion advice to enrolled patients.
• Collaborate with healthcare teams for patient care.

Skills

Clinical hepatology knowledge

Research experience

Case management skills

Education

Relevant nursing degree or equivalent experience

Job description

Role Overview

The Primary purpose of the role is to deliver liver health assessments in primary and secondary care including GP surgeries, hospital clinics, the mobile outreach van, and static clinics within drug services. Additional responsibilities will include co‑ordination of care for patients engaged in hepatocellular cancer surveillance pathways and work to improve access to care for Hepatitis C positive patients. This post is required to expand Hepatology services for the effective delivery of a program of work in the Liver Health Checks pilot. Working with existing team members the post holder will deliver clinics designed to identify people with undiagnosed cirrhosis within target populations at risk for metabolic liver disease, alcohol‑related liver disease or people at risk of viral hepatitis.

Responsibilities

• Deliver liver health assessments in primary and secondary care including GP surgeries, hospital clinics, the mobile outreach van, and static clinics within drug services.
• Co‑coordinate care for patients engaged in hepatocellular cancer surveillance pathways and work to improve access to care for Hepatitis C positive patients.
• Deliver community‑based liver health checks clinics and recruit patients for assessment, working closely with GPs, the HCV ODN van team, and other stakeholders.
• Support the timely and rapid progression from diagnosis to cancer surveillance pathways for those identified on fibro‑scan assessment as having liver cirrhosis.
• Deliver education and health‑promotion advice to all patients enrolled in the program, including those with normal diagnostic investigations.
• Co‑coordinate onward referral to secondary care liver clinics and Hepatocellular cancer surveillance pathways and work closely with lead clinician peer support workers and pathway navigators to retain patients in cancer surveillance pathways.
• Collaborate with the existing HCV ODN MDT, clinical nurse specialists (HCV and HBV), hepatologists and the HCV ODN MDT coordinator to ensure any patient with liver disease caused by viral hepatitis can access additional diagnostics such as HCV diagnostics and treatment.
• Be trained to undertake fibro‑scans, a non‑invasive diagnostic test to identify patients with advanced liver fibrosis or cirrhosis.

Qualifications

• A background in clinical hepatology, oncology, or research is an advantage but induction and training will be available for the successful appointee.
• Nursing candidates seeking a CNS role or candidates with research and case management experience with appropriate skills will be eligible for appointment.

Employer Information

The Royal Surrey County Hospital is a leading general hospital and specialist Centre for cancer services and treatment, based in Guildford. The RSCH serves a population of 320,000 for emergency and general hospital services and 1.2 million people for cancer services. The hospital has an annual income of £257 million. Every year the RSCH sees around 280,000 outpatients, admits 61,000 patients for treatment and 70,000 patients attend our A&E department. The Trust is also a Centre of excellence and training for minimally invasive surgery.

We employ over 3,000 staff, making us the second largest employer in Guildford. The results of the 2012 CQC staff survey have placed the Royal Surrey in the top 20 % of Trusts in the country for many key indicators, including recommendation of the Trust as a place of work or to receive treatment.

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5,000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing programme along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.

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