Job overview
Are you Caring and Compassionate?
We welcome you to join our friendly ENDOSCOPY team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Sister/Charge Nurse.
Our speciality makes us exciting, ambitious and forward-thinking and we are looking for a committed, enthusiastic, motivated and resilient individual to join our nursing team.
This exciting opportunity will allow the individual to work alongside the Endoscopy managers to provide day to day leadership of the Endoscopy units. You will work as part of our dedicated, hardworking and friendly team in one of our two Endoscopy units within the Trust. Although you will be based on the CDH endoscopy units, you will be expected to provide cross site cover at RPH when needed and weekend GI Bleed rota cover.
Main duties of the job
We carry out a wide range of both diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures to both outpatients and inpatients, these include;
Chorley Hospital procedures include:
1. GI procedures including; OGD/Colonoscopy/Flexible sigmoidoscopy/Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)/Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP).
2. We work with the National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) as part of the team in the north-west.
3. Diagnostic bronchoscopies.
Royal Preston Hospital procedures include:
4. GI procedures including; OGD/Colonoscopy/Flexible sigmoidoscopy/Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)/Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)/ Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)
5. GI Emergency Bleed rota
6. We work with the National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) as part of the team in the north-west.
7. Diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy including: Endobronchial Ultrasound/Trans Bronchial Needle Aspiration (EBUS/TBNA)/Endobronchial Valves and coils and stents/Thoracoscopy/Indwelling Pleural catheter (IPC) placement/Nasal-endoscopy for Induced Laryngeal Obstruction (ILO).
Your role will be to provide day to day leadership of the Endoscopy team (with the Endoscopy manager) to ensure that patients have a positive Endoscopy experience. You will have excellent communication skills, be forward thinking and well organised, with a positive attitude towards flexibility and change.
Working for our organisation
We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.
Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.
You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.
You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Duties will include, but not be limited to:
8. Assist and support the Endoscopy Manager in the safe, effective management of the area including management of personnel, facilities and the associated systems and processes.
9. Work closely with the Endoscopy Manager to ensure maintenance and continuing compliance with JAG accreditation.
10. Act as a role model, presenting a positive image of self, team and the organisation
11. Be responsible for the delivery and co-ordination of care, through appropriate professional practice, delegation and supervision of duties carried out by junior staff
12. Ensure a high standard of nursing is delivered by self and others based on assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care to meet patients’ needs in accordance with agreed local and national standards and evidence based guidelines.
13. Set, monitor and maintain standards of care to improve the patient experience and outcome of care
14. Proactively manage risk and maintain patient safety, conforming to health, safety and security legislation, policies, procedures and guidelines.
15. Communicate all relevant information to the multidisciplinary team internally and with external organisations as required, to ensure seamless care
16. Promote provision of patient education and health promotion
17. Promote equality in care and practice by recognising, respecting and meeting the needs and choices of individuals
18. Ensures environment of care is safe, well equipped and compliant with standards for hygiene and cleanliness
19. Participate in education and training of junior staff encouraging professional growth and development.
20. Maintain and develop own professional competence and seek to extend the scope of personal knowledge and skills within scope of role and professional practice.
In return to demonstration of commitment to your own personal professional development, we will provide extensive on-going training and personal development with annual appraisals.
Person specification
Qualifications & Education
Essential criteria
21. Appropriate NMC Registration
22. NMC recognised Mentorship qualification
23. Diploma or Degree
24. Evidence of continued professional development in Endoscopy
Desirable criteria
25. Post registration qualification in area of speciality area
26. Level 2 or 3 ILM (Institute of leadership and Management) or equivalent
27. Minimum of two years experience within the endoscopy setting
Knowledge & Experience
Essential criteria
28. Evidence of clinical competence in area of speciality e.g. Endoscopy
29. Evidence of leadership experience
30. Awareness of recent advances within Nursing practice
31. Knowledge of Clinical Governance and Safeguarding relevant to clinical practice, including policies & procedure guidelines
Desirable criteria
32. Experience of implementing changes to benefit patients and improve nursing practice
33. Experience of budgetary management
34. Knowledge of Ethical issues