Overview
This post provides specialised clinical leadership, management, coordination and support to the Viral Hepatology service at both Bedford Hospital and Luton and Dunstable University Hospital as part of Bedfordshire Hospitals NHSFT.
The post holder will work as an autonomous Specialist Nurse within the Hepatology service specialising in Viral Hepatitis, providing expert and complex care, advice, clinical care, education and support for individuals and their carers through nurse led clinics, a designated telephone support line and the training of nursing and medical staff.
The NHS in England has an ambition to reduce the levels of hepatitis C and hepatitis B transmission to improve public health outcomes, contributing to the WHO 2030 goals of the elimination of viral hepatitis as a public health threat.
Responsibilities
* Work closely with the Regional Hub, Cambridge ODN to ensure equitable access to specialised resources and treatments, and ensure cost effective use of resources within budgetary constraints; hold PTPPS monies and work closely with Hepatitis C peers to support case finding in vulnerable and ethnic minority communities.
* Carry continuing responsibility for the management of a defined caseload of both HCV and HBV patients, providing expert and complex care, advice, education and support for individuals and their carers through nurse led clinics and a designated telephone support line.
* Provide teaching of nursing and medical staff.
* Play a key role in the promotion of clinically effective, evidence-based practice and clinical governance; deliver care which may include independent assessment, clinical decision making, reporting of findings, and recommendation for further investigation and treatment.
* Work closely with the Drug and Alcohol services across Bedfordshire to ensure clients are provided with care and expert advice for Hepatitis B and C, and be responsible for input of patients into the national data registry.
* Provide a seamless pathway for patients requiring treatment and monitoring of Hepatitis B/C, as part of the NHSE ED opt out programme to identify patients living with a BBV.
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