Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Band 7 Hepatology Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our busy, supportive nursing team for a fixed-term maternity cover position. This role is ideal for a practitioner with a strong background in advanced liver disease who thrives on autonomy and delivering high-quality, patient-centred care.

You will manage a diverse and rewarding caseload across both inpatient and outpatient settings, running independent nurse-led clinics to monitor patients.

Acting as a central point of contact, you will be a fierce patient advocate within the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring seamless communication and robust links between our local service and regional tertiary surgical transplant centre. This position requires substantial post-registration experience in hepatology or gastroenterology, excellent clinical assessment skills, and the ability to make confident, evidence-based decisions. Outstanding communication skills are essential to support patients and their families through an emotionally complex clinical journey.

In return, we offer the chance to work within a highly innovative and collaborative team environment. This contract provides an excellent platform to enhance your clinical skills and deepen your expertise in advanced liver disease and liver transplant while ensuring vital continuity of care for our patients.

We strongly recommend arranging an informal discussion.

Main duties of the job
To work as an autonomous Clinical Nurse Specialist within the Hepatology service specialising in liver transplantation and end stage liver disease, providing expert and complex care advice, clinical care, education, advice and support for individuals and their carers through the development and provision of nurse led clinics, a designated telephone support line and the training of nursing and medical staff

By working collaboratively within multi-professional teams, the Nurse Specialist will maintain effective communication systems especially with all other healthcare staff within the Trust responsible for the care of Hepatology, delivering timely and appropriate information in line with current best practice.

To continually develop the service working as part of the multidisciplinary team caring for patients with viral hepatitis aiming to provide a comprehensive, patient focused service for this patient group

To utilise resources to meet current service needs for liver transplantation patients.

By participating in service performance reviews and clinical audit, the Nurse Specialist will contribute to the implementation of clinical improvements which will increase service effectiveness, efficiency and quality of care.

About us
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• First Level Registered Nurse
• First level degree in health related area
• ENB 998 teaching qualification (or equivalent).
• Relevant post-registration education such as the Liver Course

Desirable

• Leadership training or qualification
• Nurse Prescribing

Experience
Essential

• Experience at Band 6 or above in hepatology ideally in liver transplantation
• Ability to manage a caseload of patients autonomously
• Teaching patients and other professionals
• Working in a multi-cultural community
• Working with a range of multidisciplinary staff
• Knowledge of audit and research and its application
• Research experience managing patients on clinical trials

Desirable

• Counselling experience
• Resource Management

Skills
Essential

• General knowledge of current health care and nursing issues
• Up to date professional knowledge
• Computer literate and report writing
• Ability to work as an independent practitioner
• Ability to critique and apply findings to clinical practice
• Phlebotomy
• Advanced communication skills

Contact
For questions about the job, contact: Lead Nurse Sophie Livett, sophie.livett@nhs.net

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).

UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).