Job summary
Job Title: Clinical Nurse Specialist Upper GI
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum (Dependant on experience)
Contract Type: Fixed Term (18 months)
Hours per week: 37.5 hours per week
Closing Date: 30th of November 2024
Interview Date: 6th of December 2024
This post may close early due to high numbers of applications, so you are advised to apply promptly.
All correspondence for this vacancy will be sent by email; please check your account regularly including your Junk and SPAM areas.
A great and friendly place to work, so bring your passion, commitment and expertise and enjoy the opportunities to make a difference every day.
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Main duties of the job
- Manages caseload on an ongoing basis including making modifications within prescribed parameters reporting back to the Consultant.
- Autonomously performs specialist nurse procedures in line with Trust protocols and NMC guidance.
- Provides advice in relation to the care of individual or groups of patients.
- Responsible for the effective management of allocated resources.
- Responsible for procurement and maintenance of physical assets and supplies for the service.
- Demonstrates best practice and relevant knowledge of the NHS and modernisation agenda, seeking to develop the service as part of the professional team.
- Contributes to the development of the corporate nursing strategy ensuring local action plans produced, implemented and evaluated.
- Represents the Trust at external events, networking with professional colleagues to maximise the opportunities of promoting the Trust and benchmarking practice with peers.
- Involvement in Clinical Audit:
- 24 our GP notification audit.
- 25 Appropriateness & timeliness of urgent suspect cancer referrals. Assist in the gathering of information for ongoing audit projects.
- Ensuring that all patients have a key worker.
- Co-ordination of patient's pathway.
- Monitoring of MDT standards in conjunction with MDT co-ordinator.
- Implementing evidence-based practice.
- Request and track relevant investigations post MDT once appropriately trained to do so.
- Develop nursing services within the team.
About us
Here at George Eliot our vision to'excel at patient care'takes centre stage. An ever evolving clinically-led acute service provider we are on a journey to continually provide high quality, safe and responsive services delivered by inspiring, friendly and compassionate staff who share our corporate values which underpin everything we do. Our values are not just words on a piece of paper, they bond us together, reflect our ambition and shape who we are:
Effective Open Communication
excellence and safety in everything we do
Challenge but support
Expect respect and dignity
Local health that inspires confidence
Benefits:On-site nursery, 27 days minimum annual leave plus bank holidays, cycle to work scheme, flexible working, in house training and development, buying and selling of annual leave, subsidised restaurant, tranquillity garden and generous subsidised on-site parking.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Knowledge of equipment and degree of accuracy.
Provide physical, psychological and social support for patients/clients diagnosed with An Upper GI condition.
Nurse led Upper GI clinic.
Participate/ organise meetings for Upper GI groups, to enhance the development of Upper GI conditions across Primary and Secondary health care.
Provide educational sessions to multi-disciplinary groups (Medical staff, Physiotherapists, Pharmacists, Occupational therapists and external interest groups).
Project management improved communication between primary and secondary care
Undertake clinical trials.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Knowledge of equipment and degree of accuracy.
Provide physical, psychological and social support for patients/clients diagnosed with An Upper GI condition.
Nurse led Upper GI clinic.
Participate/ organise meetings for Upper GI groups, to enhance the development of Upper GI conditions across Primary and Secondary health care.
Provide educational sessions to multi-disciplinary groups (Medical staff, Physiotherapists, Pharmacists, Occupational therapists and external interest groups).
Project management improved communication between primary and secondary care
Undertake clinical trials.
Person Specification
Application and Interview
Essential
- Relevant post registration experience, at Band 6 or above, in cancer/palliative care/gastroenterology.
- Previous experience of working as a clinical nurse specialist.
- Experience of teaching.
- In-depth specialist experience.
- Leadership and management experience.
- Evidence of advance communication skills.
- Ability to lead and influence change.
- Post-basic qualification in cancer/palliative care/gastroenterology.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Advanced Communication Skills training or prepared to work towards.
- Research qualification
Desirable
- Experience of audit and research.
- Understanding of Cancer Support and it's role across the UK
- Clinical Skills level 7.
- Non-medical prescribing.
Person Specification
Application and Interview
Essential
- Relevant post registration experience, at Band 6 or above, in cancer/palliative care/gastroenterology.
- Previous experience of working as a clinical nurse specialist.
- Experience of teaching.
- In-depth specialist experience.
- Leadership and management experience.
- Evidence of advance communication skills.
- Ability to lead and influence change.
- Post-basic qualification in cancer/palliative care/gastroenterology.
- Evidence of continued professional development.
- Advanced Communication Skills training or prepared to work towards.
- Research qualification
Desirable
- Experience of audit and research.
- Understanding of Cancer Support and it's role across the UK
- Clinical Skills level 7.
- Non-medical prescribing.
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
