Registered Nurse-Endoscopy

To participate as a member of the nursing and multi-disciplinary team in providing high standards of evidence based care.

Provide care, support and advice for patients, relatives and carers undergoing Endoscopic procedures.

The post holder will work and communicate with the Endoscopy coordinator to organise the Endoscopy list on a daily basis, planning the session in a timely and efficient way.

To be able to efficiently take charge of a session in the Endoscopy unit.

Support and supervise junior, or non-registered staff and students working in Endoscopy. To develop ones knowledge and competencies in line with your JETS Endoscopy profile.

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Qualifications/Training

Previous Experience

Essential: - Experience working in a MDT team.; - Experience of providing and receiving complex, sensitive information; - Champion /link nurse responsibility

Desirable: - Previous Endoscopy experience or involvement with Gastroenterology patients.; - Practice assessor qualification or equivalent.

Skills

Desirable: - Technically minded.

Knowledge

Essential: - Endoscopy / Gastroenterology knowledge; - Principles of Infection control and health and safety; - Experience of audit in the clinical area

Desirable: - Awareness of health promotion

Other Requirements

Essential: - Understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion; - Role model our Trust values every day