Job Overview
Role – Hepatology Clinical Nurse Specialist
Location: Wexham Park Hospital
Contract: 12 months
We are seeking an experienced
Hepatology Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our team at Wexham Park Hospital. In this role, you will work as an autonomous practitioner, leading the delivery of high-quality, specialist care across the full spectrum of liver disease. You will assess, devise, implement, and monitor tailored treatment plans, drawing upon extensive theoretical knowledge and practical expertise to ensure the best possible outcomes for patients.
As a skilled clinician and role model, you will provide expert guidance, support, and mentorship to colleagues, while championing best practice in hepatology care. You will also play a key role in
designing and delivering specialist education programmes for a wide range of healthcare professionals, including medical, nursing, and Allied Health staff.
This post also offers the opportunity to contribute to
research and audit within hepatology, both within Frimley Health and in collaboration with external partners, helping to drive innovation and continuous improvement in patient care.
Main duties of the job
- Areas of practice to include Hepatology Department and other departments across Frimley Health Foundation Trust where patients with liver disease may be found.
- The post holder alongside the Consultant and specialist nursing team will deliver a liver service at Wexham Park Hospital and within Frimley Health to support the BBV testing objectives and outcomes.
- In conjunction with the Lead Clinician, facilitate a continuum of care which includes relevant professionals within the Trust for the management of patients with liver disease.
- The post holder will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and enhancing professional standards of care of the highest order across the whole spectrum of Hepatology services. This will involve establishing partnerships and a common purpose with various agencies and disciplines both within and outside the Trust, locally, nationally, and internationally.
- Lead on carrying out audits of the service to ensure improved outcomes for patients are achieved.
- The post holder will work with the Consultants and hepatology team to deliver education, which meets the needs of patients with Liver Disease across the Trust.
- The post holder will be prescribing within their scope of professional practice
- Be able to provide an overall perspective of Hepatology clinical provision when discussing service arrangements and developments at Trust board level and beyond.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For a full list of responsibilities and tasks associated with this role, please refer to the job description/person specification attached to this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- First level nurse registration
- Teaching and assessing qualifications
- Willingness to undertake non-medical prescribing or already on the training pathway
Desirable criteria
Experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable experience in the relevant specialty
- Significant post registration experience
Desirable criteria
- Experience in managing your own caseload in relevant specialty
Skills & Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Evidence of excellent communication skills
- Ability to communicate effectively
- Evidence of knowledge and skills in Hepatology
- Knowledge/interpretation of Liver blood tests, imaging and pathology
- Understanding of the interrelationships between primary, secondary, tertiary and quaternary services for Liver diseases
Desirable criteria
- Experience of performing fibroscans & training others in performing fibroscans
- Knowledge of how to apply research to clinical practice
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
- Evidence of ability to motivate, influence change, support staff and evaluate services
- Ability to work flexibly to meet the needs of the service
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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