Job summary
The post holder will assist in the delivery on gastroenterology and hepatobiliary services throughout the Trust, working alongside other clinical colleagues to ensure the quality of care to patients is maximised.

This post may be offered under Annex 21 AfC Terms and Conditions, subject to experience, competency and suitability.

Main duties of the job
This post would be suitable for an experienced clinical nurse with experience in the relevant speciality. The post holder will be responsible for excellent standards of nursing care to patients with hepatobiliary diseases within outpatient, ward and community setting. Within the role the post holder is expected to develop and perform Endoscopy. This post is suitable for a clinical nurse with significant experience of the speciality, who will be working as part a multidisciplinary team. It provides the opportunity to further develop communication, teaching and liaison skills and autonomous endoscopy skills within the speciality. The post holder will give advice and implement patient care in an area which requires specific clinical knowledge, skills and experience.

About us
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.

We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our Services:

• Acute Care: Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
• Primary Care: Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
• Community Services: Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
• Specialist Regional Services: We provide the Mersey Regional Burns and Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements:

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers and Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing and AHP Preceptorship Programme

Key Duties

• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of evidenced-based nursing care.
• Provide expert advice and clinical practice to patients with hepatobiliary disease.
• Provide specialist education and training to others.
• Work collaboratively and co-operatively with clinical colleagues to develop services and quality of care delivered.
• Develop hepatobiliary clinical services.

Please find attached detailed job description and person specification for main duties and requirements.

Essential Qualifications

• RGN 1st level nurse, Diploma/Degree
• Evidence of continuing professional development

Desirable Qualifications

• Post-registration qualification in specialist area
• Teaching and assessing qualification or equivalent experience
• Current ALS/ILS Certification
• Clinical Examination and Diagnostics
• Independent Nurse Prescriber
• Masters level qualification relevant to specialty (or working towards)
• Relevant Counselling qualification to specialism

Essential Knowledge and Experience

• Significant clinical experience post registration in GI speciality or liver related area
• Significant management experience in speciality or related area
• Proven track record in service development and implementation of change

Desirable Knowledge and Experience

• Experience of teaching and assessing student and qualified staff in the clinical area

Essential Skills

• Demonstrable change management ability
• Able to influence and overcome resistance through application of advanced communication skills
• Able to analyse data and provide written reports
• Intermediate IT skills in word processing and spread sheets
• Knowledge of professional and NHS issues, and policy relating to specialist area
• Able to manage work autonomously
• Proven organisational and communication skills
• Ability to communicate unpleasant or sensitive information to patients in a variety of settings
• Able to participate or undertake clinical audit and research

Essential Other

• Able to travel to different locations
• Car owner or supported driver

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.

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

Employer details
Employer name: Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Address: Southport Hospital, Town Lane, Southport, PR8 6PN, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.merseywestlancs.nhs.uk/

Reference number: 409-8326145
Working pattern: Full-time
Contract: Permanent
Band: Band 7

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