Job summary
Employer heading
Clinical/Nurse Endoscopist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen in our Division of Surgery for an accredited Clinical / Nurse Endoscopist to join our well-established endoscopy team, providing excellent service. Clinical/Nurse Endoscopists play a vital role within the endoscopy unit, contributing to its strategic development to ensure outstanding care for current and future patients, while also ensuring that all national and local targets for waiting times are achieved, thereby promoting a positive patient experience.
The post holder will collaborate closely with the Clinical Directors, Lead Clinical Endoscopist, Service Manager, and Matron to provide the best possible service for patients accessing the service, following agreed protocols, guidelines, and pathways for patients undergoing GI investigations.
Main duties of the job
As an expert practitioner, the post holder will work autonomously and exercise a high level of clinical expertise to maintain clinical excellence. The role involves independently performing diagnostic and therapeutic upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy on both sedated and non-sedated patients.
This position is ideal for a trained endoscopist with dual modality experience; however, consideration will also be given to candidates accredited in either Upper GI or Lower GI endoscopy. The post holder is expected to perform up to a maximum of five endoscopy lists per week, along with follow-up clinics to inform patients of their endoscopic test results where appropriate.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This role has been specially designed for an accredited Clinical/Nurse Endoscopist with relevant experience in gastroenterology and colorectal cancer services. In return, you will have the opportunity to work with highly skilled endoscopists, further develop your skills, and support others in gaining additional accreditation as required.
Please note that this position may require some evening, weekend, and cross-site work to meet service needs.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- JAG accredited Nurse
- Endoscopist, with experience in upper GI endoscopy [including therapeutic interventions
- Non-medical prescribing
Desirable criteria
- Masters’ degree or equivalent
- Counselling skills
- certificate Experience in lower GI endoscopy
- Train the trainer (TCT) Level 1 & 2 polypectomy
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration experience in Endoscopy/GI nursing at a senior level.
- GI/Surgical nursing experience Counselling skills and experience
- Experience in practice and service development, including nursing led services.
Desirable criteria
- Cancer nursing
- Lead an audit and/or research study
- Caseload management
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal, written, interpersonal and communications skills Clinical decision-making skills in GI/colorectal disease management
- Experience o caseload management
- Experience in patient advocacy
- Ability to conduct own projects successfully and follow them through Proficient IT skills [including word, excel and patient administration systems]
- Experience in planning and delivering education programme
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Work autonomously Proven professional development
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jemima Amissah-Doughan
- Job title
- Senior Clinical Endoscopist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02083333000
- Additional information
Ext : 48294
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