Consultant Nurse- Pouch & Stoma care

An opportunity has arisen within St Mark's Hospital Stoma and Pouch Care dept. We are looking for a highly motivated senior nurse with vast experience of colorectal and GI nursing to lead our team of clinical nurse specialists based at St Marks at Central Middlesex & Northwick Park hospitals. The stoma & pouch care dept at St Mark's Hospital is one of the largest teams in the UK for stoma and fistula management. As a tertiary referral centre, we create significant number of new stomas and ileoanal pouches per annum. We also offer long-term support to community patients in the local boroughs. This senior Nurse, Consultant position will be both managerially and clinically responsible for a team of clinical nurse specialists and will lead expert practice of nurse-led ileo-anal pouch, intestinal failure and stoma care services throughout the LNWH NHS Trust. The post holder will be fully responsible for a clinical workload acting as an independent practitioner and continually strive to improve patient focused services through the development of nurse-led clinics centered on national and international stoma care guidelines. The post holder will lead in the development and delivery of multi-professional training programmes in the field of ilea-anal pouch, intestinal failure and stoma care driving expert practice through evidence-based practice, clinical audits and research to ensure maintenance of clinical excellence in conjunction with the St Mark's Academic Institute, The post holder will provide long term management and support to patients with a stoma or fistula and lead the stoma & pouch nurse specialists within the team. The post holder will be expected to work cross-site, Central Middlesex and Northwick Park Hospital sites. The post holder will be expected to apply advanced physical assessment and clinical history taking skills to analyse and interpret highly complex medical and surgical information to formulate a plan of care for a patient with an ileo-anal pouch, stoma or intestinal failure within a nurse led clinic. The post holder will be expected to communicate effectively with all members of the multi-disciplinary team within the Trust, regionally and nationally to achieve a coordinated specialist service for patients. The post holder will be expected topublish and present research findings and audit within national and international forums, including peer reviewed journals and at nursing and medical conferences. The post holder will fully independently carry out rigid pouchoscopys', digital and physical examination within the nurse-led clinic as a means of diagnosis and long-term surveillance of patients with an ileo-anal pouch. The post holder will provide highly specialist nursing advice, support and counselling to patients and their families with regards to their ilea-anal pouch, fistula or stoma within the Trust facilitating a safe discharge into the community.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond. Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people. We run major acute services at:

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.