Clinical Nurse Specialist - Upper Gastrointestinal (UGI)
NHS AfC: Band 7
Main area: General Surgery
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity leave cover)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 349-WTWA-7009315*
Site: Wythenshawe Hospital
Town: Manchester
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum (pro rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 14/04/2025 23:59
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an Upper Gastrointestinal (UGI) Clinical Nurse Specialist position. As an Upper Gastrointestinal (UGI)/HPB Clinical Nurse Specialist, you will become an integral part of our workforce and form part of our vision for achieving excellence, working alongside other UGI CNS across sites at MFT.
The post holder will provide expert care and advice management, be motivated, enthusiastic and willing to work as part of the UGI nursing service to deliver specialist nursing care for patients diagnosed with UGI cancer through treatment and follow up. The successful candidate will work autonomously to review referrals, select appropriate investigations, and manage results, with the support of medical colleagues.
You will have extensive experience as a band 6 UGI nurse and demonstrate effective leadership.
The service is based across 4 hospitals in Greater Manchester; this post will be based at Wythenshawe Hospital but may require cross-site working.
Main duties of the job
The ideal candidate will possess excellent communication skills and have the ability to deal with service users and clinicians over the phone and in person in a polite and compassionate manner.
You will liaise with all members of the MDT to facilitate the teaching of ward staff, patients, families and carers of all aspects of UGI/HPB disease. You will also be expected, in conjunction with the audit team, to record data, compile results, and present them to relevant members of the MDT. You must be a dynamic, flexible individual with advanced IT, administrative and organisational skills, ideally with a minimum of two years' experience in UGI/HPB nursing and a keen interest in developing your clinical skills and knowledge.
Working for our organisation
MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn and is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate, so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’ that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team at resourcing@mft.nhs.uk.
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
Person specification
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse
* Relevant Health degree/working towards
* Qualified in speciality
* Non-Medical prescribing or willingness to undertake
* Masters or working towards masters in related subject
* Teaching qualification
Experience
* Significant experience in relevant clinical specialty
* Portfolio of evidence showing achievements in practice/speciality
* Significant evidence of delivering teaching programmes to staff and patient groups
* Evidence of presentations at local, regional, national level.
Knowledge
* Negotiating and influencing skills
* Ability to make calm and rational decisions in the face of adversity
* Evidence of risk management activities
* Able to demonstrate contribution of nursing role to clinical governance
* Advanced communication skills training or a willingness to undertake
* Strong analytical skills and ability to consider the wider picture
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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