University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nurse (IBD), to join a small nursing team delivering care to patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD: Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis). This is an interesting and varied post involving face to face as well as remote care, management of medications including specialist immunological treatments. Your input into other areas of IBD patient management such as support of inpatients which will give additional breadth to the role. At band 6 entry level you will have support from the existing Lead IBD Clinical Nurse Specialist and the wider nursing team. Regular in-house teaching and appropriate external conferences also support essential knowledge in this fast moving field. Personal attributes you will need are excellent communication and interpersonal skills with an ability to maintain accuracy and attention to detail even when working under pressure. You must also be proactive and motivated to learn this specialist field to high standard and deliver high-quality, safe, evidence based and compassionate patient care, with excellent organisational skills and be computer literate.
Main duties of the job
* Running follow-up, rapid access and telephone clinics
* Managing an immunosuppression service
* Administration and monitoring of anti-TNF therapy
* Providing nutritional advice
* Providing education and counselling
* Developing and defining IBD services
* Liaising with a multidisciplinary IBD team
* Co-ordinating colorectal cancer surveillance for IBD patients.
About us
University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.
All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.
UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.
At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.
Job responsibilities
For further information on this vacancy, please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification or contact the Hiring Manager.
Person Specification
Shortlisting
* Registered Nurse RGN
* Minimum of 12 months Gastroenterology experience
Nursing
* Registered Nurse RGN
* 3 years post registration experience
* Minimum of 12 months Gastroenterology experience
* Willing to undertake non medical prescribing course
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.
University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust
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