Upper GI Clinical Nurse Specialist

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board; Newport; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is seeking a member for the Upper GI CNS Team to deliver specialist nursing services. The role involves autonomous practice, patient care, and collaboration with a multidisciplinary team, ensuring high-quality care for upper GI patients.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Extensive training and professional development opportunities

Occupational health support

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for nursing decisions of a caseload of patients with upper GI symptoms.
• Plan and organize complex programs of care, including ordering investigations.

Job description

We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh; any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.

Please let us know if you have any particular requirements to enable you to participate in the application and selection process. We will be pleased to discuss any reasonable adjustments needed. Please either contact the recruiting manager named in the job advert or alternatively contact the Aneurin Bevan University Health Board recruitment team on 01497 745805 option 3.

If you are successful at interview for this post, you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.

We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore, we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are shortlisted for this post, you will be contacted via your email account used to apply, so please check your account regularly.

Please check your email account regularly. Successful applicants will receive all recruitment-related correspondence via the email account registered on the application form.

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board supports flexible working.

There is a temporary top-up for Bands 2 and 3 to reflect the incorporation of the top-up to the living wage of £12.60 per hour - £24,638 per annum. This temporary top-up will be in place until the annual pay uplift for 2025/26 is confirmed.

Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process.

Job Overview

To work as a member of the Upper GI CNS Team, contributing to the delivery of a specialist nursing service using your knowledge to facilitate high-quality specialist care to Upper GI patients.

Working as an autonomous practitioner, the post holder will be able to interpret, communicate, and act on findings independently, referring patients for further investigations and/or treatment where appropriate.

The post holder will work as a member of the multidisciplinary team, providing supervision and leadership, contributing to the delivery of a specialist service alongside and supporting the Consultants.

Use complex reasoning, critical thinking, reflection, and analysis on healthcare issues to aid assessment, clinical judgments, diagnostics (currently under guidance), and treatment decisions.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable; English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for nursing decisions of a caseload of patients with upper GI symptoms.

Responsible for planning and organizing complex programs of care, including ordering investigations and managing the diagnosis pathway across multidisciplinary teams and specialist services.

To provide and receive highly complex, sensitive, and sometimes contentious information about patients, analyze this information, and present it to the MDT and wider cancer groups.

To communicate condition-related information to patients, including giving cancer diagnosis and other condition information to patients, families, or carers. This requires advanced communication skills due to the sensitive and emotive nature of the information.

To ensure patients understand their cancer and how it affects them, promoting engagement throughout the pathway.

Use appropriate advice/alert agencies when there are concerns regarding potential or actual risks to patients or their dependents, e.g., child safeguarding, domestic violence, protection of vulnerable adults, mental capacity, and deprivation of liberty.

Ensure patient records are maintained, up to date, and compliant with the Data Protection Act. Promote the use of electronic documentation.

Be accountable for your own professional actions, adhering to the standards in the NMC Code of Professional Practice (2018).

Working for our organization

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organization committed to caring. The Health Board offers an exceptional workplace where staff are trusted and valued. We provide opportunities for everyone to start, grow, and build their careers, offering integrated acute, primary, and community care for a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a comprehensive benefits package, extensive training, professional development opportunities, paid mandatory training, in-house programs, recognized qualifications, and career pathways, including management development programs. We promote flexible working, support work-life balance, provide occupational health support, and are developing a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence.

Our Clinical Futures strategy aims to enhance care closer to home and maintain high-quality hospital care when needed, including the Grange University Hospital which opened in November 2020. Join us to help pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification

Desirable criteria

• Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification

Experience

Essential criteria

• Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification

Desirable criteria

• Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Meets all essential criteria as per attached job description/person specification

Desirable criteria

• Meets all desirable criteria as per attached job description/person specification