Endosocopy Aintree Clinical Nurse Specialist

Band: 6

Hours per Week: 37.5

Required Qualifications: Staff Nurse Grade or above, with a minimum of 12 months Gastro/Endoscopy experience.

The appointee will join the Endoscopy Nursing Management team who will be actively involved with the outpatients, consultant leads and wider members of the multi-disciplinary team to ensure that patients are assessed for a safe endoscopy procedure.

Main duties of the job

As a clinical nurse specialist within the Endoscopy Service you will be responsible for:

Telephone Assessment for patients who have been triaged for Endoscopy.

Provide Surveillance Results over the Telephone.

Attend Clinics for review of New and Follow up patients.

Review results and action appropriately.

Liaise with wider members of the multi-disciplinary team.

Review and Monitor of Data Collection and Audit.

Support and guide the Band 3 and Band Clinical Nursing Team.

Work closely and ensure good communication and links with the Nursing Management and Operational Teams.

Interested applicants must be able to manage their own workload, work on their own initiative and to strict deadlines. Demonstrate leadership skills and effective communication at interview.

About us

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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Job description

Job responsibilities

Clinical Responsibility

• Perform specialist assessment of patients nursing needs, plan, implement and evaluate care delivery using advanced clinical knowledge and clinical skills.
• Lead clinical care by managing the polyp and barretts surveillance services. To providing expert assessment, planning and evaluation.
• Co-ordinate and manage nurse-led clinics (within Speciality).
• Contribute towards a multi-professional approach in the management of patients within the specialist area, especially in relation to ongoing care needs and discharge arrangements.
• Establish and maintain effective communication with patients and carers / relatives.
• Support patients and their families and ensure that they receive the required information to enable them to self-manage, lead or participate in their care delivery.
• Recognise changes in patients condition that require the intervention of others and refer on as appropriate.
• To support, assist and encourage the multi-disciplinary team in resolving patient problems, by the provision of new and innovative models of case management.
• To lead the specialist nursing contribution to the service, work in partnership with lead clinicians, General Managers, Matron to ensure the delivery of high quality care.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered Nurse / Midwife
• Post-basic specialist Qualification relevant to speciality
• Evidence of continued professional development

Desirable

• Recordable specialist qualification
• Independent Nurse Prescribing
• ECDL

Experience

Essential

• Post registration experience
• Extensive clinical experience
• Involvement in audit

Desirable

• Participation in research
• Evidence of leading and facilitating change

Knowledge

Essential

• In depth specialist knowledge

Skills

Essential

• Teaching / assessment skills Organisation and negotiation skills
• Effective communicator
• Root Cause Analysis
• Leadership & motivation skills
• Ability to motivate self and others
• Evidence of audit and change management ability
• Computer literate
• Ability to work both on own initiative and within a team

Other

Essential

• Diplomatic
• Assertive and confident
• Recognition of own limitations
• Able to travel between sites
• Flexibility

Employer details

Employer name

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Aintree

Longmoor Lane

Liverpool

L9 7AL

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