Nurse Endoscopist

Hampshire Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust; Winchester; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in Winchester is seeking a Senior Nurse Endoscopist to provide expert endoscopy practice and professional leadership, ensuring safe, effective and compassionate patient care across the service.

The role leads service improvement, develops nursing endoscopy practice and promotes consistently high standards of clinical care. The post holder will undertake GI endoscopy and support bowel scope delivery within the Trust.

Qualifications

• Provides expert endoscopy leadership within a multidisciplinary team.
• Leads service improvement and development of nurse endoscopy practice.
• Manages safe, effective and compassionate patient care in endoscopy.

Responsibilities

• Undertake upper and lower GI endoscopy including gastroscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy.
• Provide clinical leadership and develop nurse endoscopy practice.
• Support bowel scope programme delivery within the Trust.
• Work flexibly within the weekly timetable to meet service needs.

Job description

The Advanced Clinical Specialist (SNE) is a senior clinical leadership role, providing expert endoscopy practice and professional leadership to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate patient care. The post holder will work autonomously as an expert practitioner, providing specialist advice and clinical leadership while supporting the development and delivery of high-quality endoscopy services. The role will lead service improvement, develop nursing endoscopy practice and promote consistently high standards of clinical care across the service.

The post holder will be responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of the nurse endoscopy service, working closely with the multidisciplinary team to provide a high-quality general and specialist endoscopy service.

The post holder will undertake upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy, including gastroscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy, as well as supporting delivery of the bowel scope programme within the Trust.

As Senior Nurse Endoscopist, the post holder will provide clinical leadership and play a key role in developing and implementing nurse endoscopy practice, supporting safe, effective and compassionate patient care.

The post holder will work to an agreed job plan, with flexibility within the weekly timetable to meet service needs and ensure the effective use of departmental capacity and resources.

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.