Senior Nurse Endoscopist

Company Description

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Job Description

We are thrilled to announce an exciting opportunity for a Senior Nurse Endoscopist to join our esteemed Gastroenterology Team. This role is pivotal in ensuring the delivery of a robust and high-quality service to our patients.

Key Responsibilities

• High Standard of Care: The post holder will ensure that all patients requiring gastrointestinal diagnosis and treatment receive the highest standard of care. This involves working autonomously to provide comprehensive and accurate assessments, diagnoses, advice, and treatment.
• Autonomous Practice: You will practice independently, delivering thorough assessments, clinical examinations, diagnoses, and clinical decision-making. The role involves prescribing, planning care, treatment, and ensuring the safe discharge of patients within a defined caseload, including routine, urgent, surveillance, and straight-to-test referrals.
• Accredited Expertise: The ideal candidate will have JAG accreditation for all endoscopic procedures they perform, ensuring the quality and safety of the services provided.
• Training and Mentorship: A key component of the role will be to provide training to trainee consultants, medical, and nursing endoscopists, ensuring their training is both comprehensive and safe.
• Caseload Management: You will be responsible for managing your own caseload, ensuring timely follow-up investigations or referrals in line with diagnosis and histology results.
• Service Improvement: By assuming this role, you will play a crucial part in reducing the time required for medical and consultant colleagues to perform diagnostic/therapeutic endoscopy, allowing them to focus on more specialist interventions.
• Patient Follow-up: This role contributes significantly to reducing trust capacity breaches by enabling timely follow-up of patients on waiting lists.

Benefits of the Role

• Professional Growth: Take advantage of the opportunity to work independently and expand your expertise in gastrointestinal diagnosis and treatment.
• Impactful Contribution: Make a meaningful difference in patient care by enhancing the efficiency and quality of endoscopic services.
• Collaborative Environment: Join a team of dedicated professionals committed to providing excellent healthcare and continuous improvement.

If you are passionate about advancing your career in gastroenterology and have the expertise and dedication to thrive in this role, we encourage you to apply. Join us in our mission to provide exceptional care and support to our patients.

Job Description

Qualifications

• Current RN +/- RN, registration with NMC and any other relevant post registration specialist qualifications
• Post graduate Masters Level qualification (PgC, PgD or Master equivalent 
• JAG accredited in either gastroscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy or colonoscopy
• JAG accredited in train-the-trainers in relevant field where appropriate
• Bowel Scope Accredited
• Bowel Cancer Screening Accredited where appropriate
• Nurse Independent and Supplementary Prescriber where appropriate
• Evidence of developing policy, guidelines and managing resources

Skills and Knowledge                  

• Ability to work on own initiative as well as a part of a team. Self-motivated.
• Able to deal with difficult and sensitive situations tactfully and minimise emotional upset
• Effective people management skills. Experience of leading and managing a team
• Ability to negotiate, influence and escalate and seek advice
• Demonstrate knowledge of the theory and application of Clinical Governance.
• Understanding of the role of research and development activities and clinical effectiveness. Evidence of experience with audit and or research
• Understanding of health policy and the national and local nursing agenda
• Ability to interpret and analyse data, meet deadlines
• Demonstrate effective contribution to business planning and service developments
• Intermediate IT skills and presentation skills

Experience

• Extensive experience in Endoscopy

Additional Information

The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.

We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.