Senior Nurse Endoscopist

An exciting new opportunity has arisen in the Gastroenterology Service in St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust for an additional Senior Nurse Endoscopist. The successful applicant will join a large, dynamic & flexible gastroenterology team which includes 10 Consultant Gastroenterologists, a Nurse Consultant, 5 Nurse Endoscopists & 6 Clinical Endoscopists who scope as part of their Specialist Nurse/ANP/GI Physiologist roles. The role will include managerial activities including delivering the requirements of the JAG Endoscopy Standards and GIRFT, supporting the UGI/LGI vetting and leading on service developments We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic and self-motivated individual with experience in the management of patients with gastrointestinal conditions., To provide individual episodes of care to a client group based on assessment of physical, social, psychological, emotional and spiritual needs. To demonstrate a high level of clinical decision-making and an ability to monitor and improve standards of care. To work within his/her own scope of professional practice. To work closely with the multi-professional team to develop the nurse endoscopist service and provide expert nursing practice without direct medical supervision but within agreed Trust protocols. To work unsupervised in the provision of clinical care to patients. To provide training and education to the multi-professional team, patients and their relatives.

• To have a managerial and leadership role.
  
  Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care. Our services: Acute Care Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites. Primary Care Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital. Community Services Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre. Specialist Regional Services We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales. Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme