Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust

Senior Nurse Endoscopist

The closing date is 14 July 2025

Job summary

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

Main duties of the job

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.
Patient Follow-up:This role contributes significantly to reducing trust capacity breaches by enabling timely follow-up of patients on waiting lists.

About us

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

Date posted

08 July 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 8a

Salary

£53,755 to £60,504 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

REF1578R

Job locations

Queen Alexandra Hospital

Southwick Hill Road

Cosham

PO6 3LY

Job description

Job responsibilities

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

Job responsibilities

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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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

Experience

Essential

Extensive experience in Endoscopy

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

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

Experience

Essential

Extensive experience in Endoscopy

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).