Specialist Colorectal Clinical Endoscopist

Northumbria Group.; North Shields; Hybrid; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a clinical nurse endoscopist to join the Colorectal Surgery team at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham hospitals. The post is suitable for an experienced endoscopist trained in Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) and JAG guidelines.

You will provide endoscopy and outpatients services, participate in MDT, and help train staff in endoscopy and related areas. A driving licence is essential and flexible working options are available.

Qualifications

• Clinical nurse endoscopist with experience in endoscopy and outpatients.
• Knowledge of Faster Diagnosis Standards and cancer pathways.
• Trainable in endoscopy and non-endoscopy parts of the role.
• Eligible for BCSP National programme and JAG guidelines.

Responsibilities

• Work in endoscopy and outpatients on a Trust-wide basis.
• Provide clinic services for cancer/benign patients per job plan.
• Offer cover for colleagues in their clinical area.
• Collaborate with the MDT for patient pathways.
• Contribute to training of nurses and medical staff in endoscopy.

Skills

Nurse endoscopist

Education

PP126/127 or D32/D33

JAG endoscopy qualification

HEE Accelerated Clinical Endoscopist Training

BCSP Screening Accreditation

Non-medical prescribing course

Train the Trainer Endoscopy Course

Job description

Band 8a

Main area Colorectal Grade Band 8a Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week Job ref 319-8284129JA

Site North Tyneside General Hospital Town North Shields Salary £57,528 - £64,750 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 05/10/2026 23:59

Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is… the Northumbria Way!

What the Northumbria Way means for you:

• Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
• Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
• A range of flexible working opportunities
• Generous annual leave and pension scheme
• Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
• Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
• Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank

We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.

Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It's open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.

We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts - rated 'outstanding' overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.

We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise - a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.

Whilst Northumbria Healthcare are a highly innovative organisation, the use of Third Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity your individual recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for a clinical nurse endoscopist to join our team. This role is ideally suited to an experienced endoscopist who will join a supportive team of nurse endoscopists, Consultants and Clinical Nurse Specialists in the Colorectal Surgery team at Northumbria Healthcare. This is an exciting and varied role with the expectation that the appointed candidate is Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Scopist trained.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will be required to work in a variety of areas; primarily endoscopy and outpatients on a Trust wide basis.
• Provide Trust wide outpatient clinics for cancer / benign patients agreed in the job plan. A variety of patient contacts are required, which will include face to face and telephone advice
• The post holder is expected to provide Trust wide cover for colleagues for services within their own clinical expertise.
• Required to work closely with the MDT.
• To contribute to provision of core specialist endoscopists training to nurses and medical staff (within Joint Advisory Group for Endoscopy Training (JAG) guidelines).

Working for our organisation

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state‑art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see job description and personal specification for full details, but it is expected the appointed candidate is a confident and competent nurse endoscopist and is skilled in assessment of patients.

The appointed individual will support the 2ww cancer pathway in Colorectal Surgery by accepting, triaging and directing referrals to the appropriate first face to face contact, supporting with follow up scans / biopsies etc and navigating patients through the pathway.

It is essential to have knowledge of Faster Diagnosis Standards, letters and documentation and supporting patients into treatment regimes where appropriate. There are opportunities to deliver training in the endoscopy and non endoscopy parts of the role.

Other

• It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.

Qualifications / Professional Registration

• PP126/127 or D32/D33 or equivalent
• Formal endoscopy qualification (JAG) accredited and/ or HEE Aclerated Clinical Endoscopsist Training Course
• Non-medical prescribing course
• Evidence of an advanced communication course
• BCSP Screening Accreditation
• Train the Trainor Endoscopy Course

Experience and knowledge

• Clinical expertise in the disease process
• Considerable experience working as a senior nurse in an area related to colorectal disease
• Experience of breaking bad news
• Experience of audit
• Experience and knowledge of the BCSP National programme

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, those who have a disability that requires support in the work place (two ticks pledge) and those who have been looked after by the care system as a child or young person (for example, in foster care, children's homes, kinship or local authority care) who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defense Recognition Scheme, and we are delighted to support Apprenticeships, Age Posi+ive and are a mindful employer.

If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.

Applicants who meet the Fit and Proper Person Requirements (FPPR) will require additional pre-employment checks in line with CQC and NHS England statutory guidance.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust proudly hold a sponsor licence. In order to provide sponsorship you and the role you are applying for must meet UKVI eligibility requirements. Please check your eligibility prior to submitting an application. Skilled Worker visa: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

It is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.

Name Liz Robinson Job title Lead Clinical Nurse Endoscopist Email address [e-mail]

Gail Stokeld -Operational Services Manager

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