Nurse Endoscopist (PDF, 280.4KB)

Whittington Health NHS Trust

About

Whittington Health NHS Trust aims to help local people live longer and healthier lives by providing safe, personal, coordinated care for the community we serve.

We provide hospital and community care services to 500,000 people living in Islington and Haringey as well as other London boroughs including Barnet, Enfield, Camden and Hackney. As one organisation providing both hospital and community services, we are known as an ‘integrated care organisation’.

We have an income of £350 million and over 4,400 staff delivering care across north London.

Our priority is to provide the right care, at the right time and in the right place for our patients. We provide a large range of services from the hospital, including accident and emergency (A&E), maternity, diagnostic, therapy and elderly care. We also run services from 30 community locations in Islington and Haringey. Over the past year we have reviewed and developed services to make them stronger and better support the needs of patients.

As an integrated care organisation we bring high quality services closer to home and speed up communication between community and hospital services, improving our patients’ experience. Key to our approach is partnering with patients, carers, GPs, social care, mental health and other healthcare providers.

Our organisation has a highly-regarded educational role. We teach undergraduate medical students (as part of UCL Medical School) and nurses and therapists throughout the year, alongside providing a range of educational packages for postgraduate doctors and other healthcare professional.

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Key details

Location

SiteWhittington HospitalAddressMagdala AvenueTownLondonPostcodeN19 5NFMajor / Minor RegionLondon

Contract type & working pattern

Contract12 months (1 year fixed term)HoursFull time - 37.5 hours per week

Salary

Salary£61,927 - £68,676 Per Annum Inclusive of HCASSalary periodYearlyGrade(NHS AfC: Band 8a)

Specialty

Main areaNurse Endoscopist

Covid-19 Vaccination

Getting vaccinated, and getting a booster, remains the best defence against COVID-19. We encourage and support staff to get COVID-19 vaccine and a booster dose as and when they are eligible.

Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3 party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.rd

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By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.

Job overview

The postholder will provide a clinical role in nurse led endoscopy service for patients who are undergoing assessment and investigation for gastrointestinal disease. They will perform diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures and follow agreed protocols.

They will be responsible for and manage their own patient case load and work along side the multi-disciplinary team to provide clinically effective and efficient care and treatment.

They will ensure that the unit provides quality standards that meet Joint Advisory Group (JAG) requirements, and the quality standards outlined in the Global rating Scale (GRS)

The post-holder is expected to undertake 5 service lists a week, and also support the service with clinical audits.

Develop and continuously focus on improving patient centred care and overall experience within the endoscopy care pathway.

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·- Undertake direct patient care, post holder expected to undertake 5 service list a week, and also contributing to review of histology clinics

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·- Develop protocols and guidelines for the clinical area and speciality.

Working for our organisation

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical

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· Undertake direct patient care, post holder expected to undertake 5 service list a week, and also contributing to review of histology clinics

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· Obtain informed consent from patients undergoing gastrointestinal endoscopy.

· Identify clinical abnormalities and act upon them within agreed protocols

· Develop protocols and guidelines for the clinical area and speciality.

· Ensure all patients have a plan of care which has been discussed with them. The plan must include a comprehensive assessment of clinical risks

· Ensure that treatment and care is documented, including variances

· ork closely with the Endoscopy Administrators to ensure that access to diagnostic tests and treatment is co-ordinated

· Provide clinical and managerial leadership that promotes an effective multi – disciplinary contribution to the provision of service delivery

· Deal with highly

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· Deliver nursing care in accordance with NMC code of conduct, and hospital policy, in collaboration with medical staff and other members of the multi-disciplinary team.

· Ensure effective multi-disciplinary team-working to achieve effective care and treatment and efficient resource use

· Give bad news to patients and/or their relatives and carers eg informing them of a cancer or life threatening disease.

· Be equipped and able to respond to urgent and emergency situations ie , perforation bleeding, cardiac arrest etc

· Be a non medical independent nurse prescriber / willingness to undertake to be able to prescribe IV sedation, muscle relaxants, etc

· Autonomously discharge or plan care for patients with benign gastric/colorectal/rectal conditions at the end of successful treatment and autonomously discharge asymptomatic patients with normal findings

Education

· To have highly developed specialist knowledge underpinned through theory and experience. Professional knowledge at degree level and supplemented by specialist training at Masters level

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· Develop and update educational programmes for staff, patients and their relatives.

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· Lead on developments and innovations in nursing practice throughout the Trust

· Provide a leadership role model, developing and demonstrating expert knowledge and high standards of clinical practice

· Act as a role model and mentor to staff, providing formal and informal education and support for them in their provision of care for the colorectal patients

· Maintain own professional development through annual/bi-annual appraisal of clinical performance and the production of a professional development plan

· Establish links with key educational providers enabling maximum teaching and learning opportunities. .

· Update own education needs by attendance at courses, conferences and study days, in addition to mandatory training.

Management

· Co-ordinate own workload

· Participate in service reviews and audits of the service to ensure continued compliance with JAG accreditation.

· Identify opportunities for service development and role re- design. Act as a change agent and innovator, planning and evaluating change within the gastro/endoscopy unit.

Research / Audit

· Participate in the annual JAG audits.

· To collaborate in the audit of nurse endoscopy practice across the Trust.

· To promote and participate in nursing research within endoscopy to promote evidence based practice at Trust and National level.

Professional Responsibilities

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SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS

To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies , procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:

• Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.

• Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
• Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
• Participate in required training and supervision.
• Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct

Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Your application form –

1. Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
2. Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.

Our processes –

1. Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
2. If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
3. Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
4. Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.

Other important information

• Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system .
• Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
• In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.

If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely www.trustid.co.uk

Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided

The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.

We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation

Applicant requirements

warning You must have appropriate UK professional registration. info This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Person specification

Skills

Essential criteria

• Knowledge of gastro-intestinal disease processes
• Willingness to extend clinical knowledge and skills and carry out research and audits of the clinical area
• Understands physiological systems, disease processes and risks of associated medical technologies

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Advanced knowledge of GI tract anatomy and physiology
• Clinical Audit
• Pharmacology in relation to Gastrointestinal Disease

Experience

Essential criteria

• 3 years post registration experience within a relevant area
• Experience of Nurse Led care
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse
• Basic skills OGD/ flexible endoscopy qualification (JAG accredited)
• Documented evidence of CPD

Documents

• Nurse Endoscopist (, 280.4)PDFKB
• Nurse Endoscopist (, 280.4)PDFKB
• Whittington Probationary Policy (, 298.0)PDFKB

Further details / informal visits contact

NameKelly CollinsJob titleDivisional Head of NursingEmail address [email protected]Telephone number07717302009