Overview
Main area Gastroenterology Grade NHS AfC: Band 7. Contract Secondment: 12 months (or Fixed Term until 30th September 2026). Hours Part time - 28 hours per week (Monday to Friday). Job ref 177-EMER-7431739.
Employer James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Site James Paget University Hospital, Gorleston on Sea. Salary £47,810 - £54,710 per annum, pro rata. Salary period Yearly. Closing 21/09/2025 23:59.
NHS AfC: Band 7
The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of around 250,000 people in the Great Yarmouth, Lowestoft and Waveney areas. The Trust provides an integrated hospital and community children’s service. Patient and staff experience is important to us and these are the behaviours we live by: Putting patients first; Aiming to get it right; Recognising that everybody counts; Doing everything openly and honestly. Prior consideration will be given to NHS At Risk staff within East of England.
Job overview
To provide specialist nursing advice to support and facilitate high quality, individualised care to patients/clients and relatives/carers without supervision in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team in line with local and national targets. To be flexible in the approach to the clinical area and to provide cover for any area specified, acting as professional role model providing direct and indirect clinical care, teaching and research. To provide a nurse led service offering advice and expertise within the Upper GI Cancer speciality.
Main duties of the job
To assess, plan, implement and evaluate programmes of care, providing specialist advice and actively seeking evidence based practice which will improve the quality of care and meet the needs of a group of patients.
A holistic approach to caring should be planned that will include the appropriate level of physiological, pathological, spiritual, socio-economical and cultural aspects which influence the care of clients within your specific specialty. To manage episodes of care as own/joint/shared caseload and discharging patients as per protocol.
To spend time in clinical practice acting as a role model to ensure the delivery of nursing care is at highest possible level to meet patient care.
To act as a key worker for patients in the caseload, providing seamless, coordinated treatment pathway ensuring that scans, outpatient appointments etc are arranged to avoid treatment interruptions, keeping the patient informed at all times.
To work with the Upper GI Cancer team taking an active role in involving users and carers in developing the service.
Working for our organisation
We want to attract the best and brightest people to work with us and that means we will look after you from the moment you apply for a role at the Trust and throughout your career with us. Our staff are central to everything we do, and we believe that investing in you is crucial if we want to enable you to reach your full potential.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for a full and comprehensive overview for this position.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
* NMC Registered Nurse (Adult)
* Management/team leading qualification
Knowledge and Experience
* Experience of working in Gastroenterology/UGI
* Experience of Nurse Led Clinic's
Skills and Knowledge
* Extensive knowledge base within the field of Gastroenterology
* Evidence of implementing different change management approaches, demonstrating experience of contributing and participating in change programmes, leading innovative solutions
The James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust recognises the requirement to promote health and reduce ill-health. The Trust is committed to the principles of improving working lives through a number of initiatives such as job share, flexible working and the development of a culture of openness and transparency. The Trust is committed to ensuring that no job applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of their age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex, and sexual orientation.
Tier 2 Sponsorship :We are pleased to consider applicants who require Tier 2 sponsorship to work in the UK but it is unlikely that we would be able to appoint if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled UK/Right to work candidate is available. Applying for entry clearance into the UK, must provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) will also be subject to this requirement.
Visa and Immigration
If you are wishing to apply for this role and would require sponsorship (this includes if you are already in a sponsored post and looking to change employer), you can determine the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this post by assessing your circumstances against criteria specified on the gov.uk website https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa/your-job.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
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