Fixed Term 12m HPB Endoscopy Clinical Nurse Specialist for ERCP & EUS
NHS AfC: Band 7
At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join our Endoscopy team at East Lancashire Hospitals Trust as a Band 7 HPB Clinical Nurse Specialist for ERCP and EUS.
This post will be based at Royal Blackburn Hospital and will be expected to provide clinical expertise and knowledge, demonstrating a reasonable understanding of the issues related to the identification, assessment, treatment and management of Pancreaticobiliary patients.
We are seeking a highly motivated nurse with HPB knowledge, confident decision-making skills, excellent communication skills, and a passion for continuous improvement.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will be competent in all HPB Endoscopic interventions including ERCP, EUS/FNA, Axios stent insertion, and Spyglass procedures.
You will supervise members of the nursing team, ensuring competency-based assessments are completed for all staff allocated to assist with HPB procedures.
The post holder will co-ordinate and organise the inpatient and outpatient referrals for ERCP and EUS, providing nursing support, information, and advice to patients and their families, relatives, and carers.
The post holder will facilitate communication and act as liaison between the referrer, clinicians, ward staff, and endoscopy unit staff. The individual will develop and maintain safe pathways for patients who require Endoscopy Procedures on GA/Deep Sedation lists, ensuring that patients have attended for pre-operative/anaesthetic assessment.
You must be a dynamic, flexible individual with advanced IT, administrative, and organizational skills. You should ideally have a minimum of two to three years’ experience in HPB and endoscopy nursing and have shown a keen interest in developing your clinical skills and knowledge.
Working for our organisation
The post holder will ensure patients and their carers fully understand the procedure for which they have been referred.
The post holder will review the referrals and assess the patients to determine suitability and priority against agreed protocols and criteria, booking the patients appropriately and in a timely manner while maintaining the Stent Register.
You will be expected to facilitate the safe, efficient, and optimal use of ERCP and EUS sessions.
The post holder is expected to provide nurse-led consent for inpatients and outpatients where appropriate.
The post holder will record activity, outcomes, take part in clinical audit, evidence-based practice, and prepare reports to evaluate the role and service.
The post holder will be expected to participate fully in their personal development and review process to achieve the skills required to deliver the role effectively and efficiently.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To take the lead role in managing the ERCP and EUS referral waiting list for endoscopic examination following medically agreed protocols and criteria, and also help in prioritising patients according to clinical needs in accordance with agreed protocols/criteria.
2. To be the point of contact for ERCP and EUS referrals from inpatients, outpatients, GP practices, Emergency Department, medical and surgical wards/departments directly into the service.
3. To assess the patient’s (inpatients and outpatients) suitability for the endoscopic procedure.
4. To identify those patients who can safely be discharged and return for their procedure as an outpatient, ensuring any patient returning for an outpatient procedure leaves with a booked appointment and instructions regarding any preparation.
5. To assess, plan, and implement programmes of evidence-based care.
6. To ensure interventions are undertaken in line with best practice guidance.
7. Participate in and coordinate the Pancreatobiliary and ERCP MDT and action the outcome.
8. Participate in the clinical governance process, including adverse incident reporting/investigation, the management of complaints as appropriate, and collect and collate data as required by the role to support internal and external professional and operational bodies.
9. Act as point of contact for all inpatients and those discharged to return as an outpatient.
10. To work with medical teams, ward staff, and the endoscopy unit to ensure the patient is fully prepared both physically and mentally so that the procedure can take place without delay.
11. Monitor/evaluate outcomes of services and care in conjunction with the departmental manager.
12. Assist with the introduction of new ideas and practices.
13. Positively contribute to the development of nursing and healthcare services within areas of responsibility.
14. Carry out and fulfil all delegated responsibilities.
15. Promote and demonstrate innovative practice and implement changes as required.
16. To lead the ERCP and EUS lists and procedures being carried out.
17. Train new members of staff in ERCP and EUS.
18. Draw on a diverse range of knowledge in their decision-making to determine evidence-based therapeutic interventions.
19. To support in Pancreaticobiliary assessment clinics, assessing/triaging patients and directing them to the appropriate pathway, in line with developed protocols.
20. To be accountable for coordinating patient care within the pancreaticobiliary clinics and to contribute to the management of resources within the service.
21. To be responsible and accountable for the provision of expert and specialised care, in collaboration with the specialist MDT.
22. To be responsible for the implementation of audit, quality, and risk management initiatives and support the evaluation of the HPB service.
23. To represent the Trust and the specialty at internal and external meetings.
Person specification
* Registered General Nurse
* Experience in HPB endoscopy (ERCP and EUS)
* Post-basic qualification in relevant subject or working towards
* Teaching and Assessment qualification modules
* Leadership development programme or willing to work towards
* Evidence of recent continued professional development
* Non-medical prescribing or willingness to work towards
* Clinical examination/physical assessment course/module
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* Please note that the salary advertised is for full-time hours. If this post is less than 37.5 hours per week, the salary will be pro-rata. For posts on Agenda for Change pay-scales, new entrants to the NHS will normally commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
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The cost of an Enhanced Disclosure will be £55.38 and for a Standard Disclosure will be £27.38.
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The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Name: Dr Mo Shibeika
Job title: Consultant
Email address: mohamed.shibeika@elht.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 01282 803527
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