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Nurse Endoscopist

Employer
Care UK
Location
Portsmouth
Salary
Competitive
Closing date
5 Apr 2017

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Sector
Surgical Nursing
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Job Role
Clinical Nurse Specialist

Job Details

Job Summary

St Mary's Treatment Centre based in Portsmouth have an exciting opportunity for a Nurse Endoscopist.

The nurse endoscopist will act as the clinical expert and professional resource to the multi-professional team, patients and carers within their specialist service. They will liaise and collaborate with colleagues in the delivery of high quality, clinically effective care, prioritising and utilising evidence based and best practice.

You will work in partnership with the clinical, nursing, administrative and managerial team to ensure professional standards of care across diagnostics, including review of departmental policies and procedures.

Responsible To

Lead Nurse Day Surgery Unit

Key Responsibilities

Managerial

• Initiate, lead and contribute to developing strategies to promote and improve Endoscopy
services, working with the endoscopy management team.
• Evaluate service delivery, identifying areas within the service needing improvement and initiate
change. Be an active member of the endoscopy users group and have responsibility for
designated audits.
• Envisage future service/patient needs and take a lead in developing practice/services as
appropriate.
• Have their own lists working flexibly and in addition will back fill lists during times of other
endoscopist’s absence.
• Demonstrate an awareness of political/national agendas in own field of practice, e.g. The NHS
Plan at a Local/Regional/National level and take a lead in their implementation.

Communication

• Requires the ability to provide and receive routine information orally, in writing or electronically
to inform work colleagues, patients, clients and carers, the public or other external contacts.
• Must be an effective communicator within their own team and take responsibility for the
implementation, dissemination and evaluation of information at all levels.
• Liaise with the DSU Lead Nurse in order to co-ordinate activities to meet the objectives of the
department.

Clinical Governance

• Work closely with the management team and endoscopy lead nurses maintaining the
Endoscopy Unit’s Global Rating Scale (GRS) quality programme by developing, implementing
and monitoring an action plan to increase quality within Endoscopy which can be reflected in
improved GRS ratings.
• Act as lead for identified GRS, clinical events, bench marking and CCG audits within the team.
• Work collaboratively with colleagues to develop effective documentation, pathways, protocols
and guidelines for care relevant to own area of work.

Patient Care

• Perform upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy, and polypectomy according to
organisational and national protocols, as an independent autonomous practitioner.
• Administer conscious sedation/local anaesthesia within agreed protocols to patients requiring
Endoscopy. Identify abnormal GI pathology, perform biopsies, photographs and complete
pathology requests as required.
• Assess individuals, families and populations holistically using a range of different methods,
some of which may not be usually exercised by nurses such as physical assessment and history
taking, ordering and interpreting diagnostic tests or advanced health needs assessments.

Clinical Professional Responsibilities

• Work within agreed protocols and patient group directives for administration of relevant drugs
for appropriate endoscopy procedures.
• Perform therapeutic procedures in accordance with agreed clinical protocols and clinical
governance approval from appropriate directorates.
• Collect, collate, evaluate and report information, maintaining accurate patient records in line
with clinical governance and risk management.

Qualifications

• RN (Level 1), BSc / Diploma in Nursing or other relevant Post Graduate Clinical Qualification or a
Portfolio demonstrating relevant experience.
• Recognised Teaching /Assessing certificate or equivalent
• Nurse prescriber

Additional Information

We aim to provide a safe and clinically sound environment, where the immediate and urgent need of individuals using the centre is recognised and suitably skilled staff are available to see and treat the users of this service. To ensure that we meet the needs and expectations of the patient we provide a culture of continuing learning and development.

For more information, please visit http://www.stmarystreatmentcentre.nhs.uk/



ESSENTIAL

• Recognised post-registration specialist endoscopy course or equivalent
• Ability to show competency and demonstrate experience at Senior Practitioner Level
• Specialist Qualification in GI Nursing / Endoscopy Practice or demonstrable understanding of the
area.
• A UKRC Advanced Life Support Provider Qualification.
• Excellent communication skills
• Flexibility
• Cannulation skills/ willing to undertake training.
• Ability to fulfil all duties within the endoscopy department

DESIRABLE

• Experience as a qualified nurse and ability to supervise a team.
• Ideally some experience of the Independent Sector.
• Broad range of competencies matched to job description and specification illustrated in CV.

Company

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