Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Nurse Endoscopist
The closing date is 23 November 2026
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Job summary
The Advanced Clinical Specialist (SNE) is a senior clinical leadership role, providing expert endoscopy practice and professional leadership to ensure the delivery of safe, effective and compassionate patient care. The post holder will work autonomously as an expert practitioner, providing specialist advice and clinical leadership while supporting the development and delivery of high-quality endoscopy services. The role will lead service improvement, develop nursing endoscopy practice and promote consistently high standards of clinical care across the service.

Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of the nurse endoscopy service, working closely with the multidisciplinary team to provide a high-quality general and specialist endoscopy service.

The post holder will undertake upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy, including gastroscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy, as well as supporting delivery of the bowel scope programme within the Trust.

As Senior Nurse Endoscopist, the post holder will provide clinical leadership and play a key role in developing and implementing nurse endoscopy practice, supporting safe, effective and compassionate patient care.

The post holder will work to an agreed job plan, with flexibility within the weekly timetable to meet service needs and ensure the effective use of departmental capacity and resources.

About us
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.

Details
Date posted: 10 November 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time, Part-time
Reference number: 251-MED3021ENDO

Job description
Job responsibilities
Happy to Talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible and part time working will be considered.
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.

Person Specification
Training and Qualification

• Essential: Current professional registration with the NMC
• Degree-level education or equivalent knowledge and experience
• Evidence of continuing professional development
• Recognised endoscopy training and competency in gastroscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy
• Relevant postgraduate study or equivalent advanced clinical practice experience
• Desirable: Training the Training (TTT) or equivalent
• Master's degree or evidence of study at Master's level
• Gastrointestinal upper and lower GI/endoscopy courses
• Teaching, mentoring or practice assessor qualification
• Leadership or management development qualification

Experience and Knowledge

• Essential: Extensive clinical experience within endoscopy
• Significant experience as a nurse endoscopist
• Experience of independently undertaking upper and lower GI endoscopy
• Evidence of maintaining endoscopy competence
• Knowledge of clinical governance, patient safety and quality improvement
• Experience of supporting service development and improvement
• Desirable: Experience of developing or expanding nurse-led endoscopy services
• Experience of audit, research or quality improvement
• Experience of teaching and developing clinical staff
• Experience of leadership within an endoscopy service

Skills and Ability

• Essential: Ability to practise autonomously within scope of practice
• Advanced clinical assessment and decision-making skills
• Effective leadership and communication skills
• Ability to manage complex clinical situations
• Ability to prioritise workload and manage competing demands
• Ability to work effectively across multidisciplinary teams
• Ability to support, supervise and develop others
• Desirable: Presentation and teaching skills
• Experience of implementing change and service redesign

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.

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.

UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Employer details
Employer name: Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Andover-Winchester-Basingstoke, Hampshire, SO22 5DG, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.hampshirehospitals.nhs.uk/

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Lead Nurse for Endoscopy HHFT, Fretzie Hemingway, fretzie.hemingway@hhft.nhs.uk, 01256428310

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