Job summary
- Main area
- Digestive Diseases
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- 12 months (Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 435-MEC-077-26
- Employer
- East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Blackburn Teaching Hospital
- Town
- Blackburn
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Hepatology Specialty Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 6
At East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 600,000 people across East Lancashire and the surrounding area. We employ over 9,500 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work.
Job overview
The role involves providing specialist nursing support and coordinated care for patients with viral hepatitis and stable hepatology conditions within East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust. Working closely with the Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP), and multidisciplinary hepatology team, the post holder is responsible for delivering high-quality, evidence-based care, supporting treatment adherence, monitoring patient progress, and promoting health and wellbeing.
The position requires strong communication, clinical assessment, and patient advocacy skills, particularly when supporting vulnerable, migrant, and hard-to-reach populations affected by chronic liver disease, alcohol dependency, substance misuse, and blood-borne viruses. Responsibilities include supporting outpatient service delivery, undertaking clinical interventions within agreed protocols, coordinating patient care pathways, providing education and emotional support to patients and families, and contributing to service development, audit, and quality improvement initiatives.
The post holder is expected to act as a positive role model, maintain professional accountability, uphold Trust values, and contribute to multidisciplinary collaboration, leadership, teaching, and continuous professional development while ensuring safe, compassionate, and patient-centred care.
Main duties of the job
Main duties of the role include providing specialist nursing care and support to patients with viral hepatitis and stable liver conditions, ensuring high standards of patient-centred care within the hepatology service. The post holder works closely with the Lead CNS, ANP, and multidisciplinary team to support assessment, treatment monitoring, care coordination, and treatment adherence.
Key responsibilities include supporting outpatient hepatology services, undertaking clinical interventions and investigations within agreed protocols, monitoring patients for changes in liver function, and escalating concerns appropriately. The role also involves providing education, emotional support, and health promotion advice to patients, families, and carers, particularly those from vulnerable or hard-to-reach groups.
Additional duties include maintaining accurate patient records, participating in audits and service improvement initiatives, contributing to clinical governance and risk management, supporting colleagues and learners, and maintaining ongoing professional development to ensure evidence-based practice and high-quality care delivery.
Please see the job description for for further information
Working for our organisation
Working for the organisation offers the opportunity to be part of a supportive, patient-focused NHS Trust committed to delivering safe, personal, and effective care. The Trust promotes a culture of continuous improvement, teamwork, respect, and accountability, encouraging staff to contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives.
Employees are supported through ongoing training, professional development, clinical supervision, and opportunities to expand their skills and knowledge within specialist hepatology services. Working alongside a dedicated multidisciplinary team, staff are encouraged to provide compassionate, evidence-based care while contributing to innovation, equality, and excellence in patient outcomes.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Main Duties
Develop and maintain communication with people about complex issues and/or in difficult situations. Client groups will include migrant and hard to reach populations.
Support the Hepatology outpatient team with service delivery, expansion and complying with protocols
Provide Empathy and understanding and working with the patient/family/carers and particularly those
with chronic liver disease as experts in their own condition.
Under supervision, undertake interventions and treatments as per protocols within evidence based practice and national guidelines
Support equality and value diversity
Plan, develop and implement approaches to promote health and wellbeing and prevent adverse effects on health and wellbeing
Signpost and support patients in their understanding of their condition through patient education and health promotion.
Support the team in the management of treatment for viral infections to ensure effective care co-ordination to an identified caseload, maintaining safety and concordance with NHS England guidance.
Under direct/indirect supervision the post-holder will plan and organise work effectively and will be accountable for the quality and standard of work performed.
Maintains and develops own professional competence to extend scope of personal knowledge and skills within scope of role and professional practice.
Develop and evaluation self-management plan with the patient who has predisposing factors to liver disease.
Communicate effectively with patients, families and colleagues and proactively personalise the service, connect with patients and carers whilst adopting the ethos of Safe, personal and effective.
Identify opportunities to reduce waste and inefficiency and look at ways of measuring and auditing improvements and proactively develop goals and objectives in support of the Trusts vision.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Significant and relevant post registration experience within nursing of which part of that time will have been spent with hard to reach patient groups
- Evidence of continued clinical training and CPD
- Effective communicator, able to communicate complex and highly sensitive information
- Evidence of people management and some leadership skills
- Passion for patient groups that involve alcohol addiction, substance misuse and blood bourne viruses
- Full Driving Licence and access to a car with business insurance
Desirable criteria
- Post Basic qualification within hepatology or substance misuse setting
- Can demonstrate assertiveness, tact and diplomacy appropriately
- Evidence of proactive involvement in the mentorship and development of nurses and nursing practice
- Able to use IT software and programs associated with healthcare
- Venepuncture with patients with poor peripheral access
Knowledge, Skills, experience
Essential criteria
- Demonstrated developed knowledge and expertise underpinned by a foundation of theory and continued acquired knowledge and skills through CPD
- Evidence of involvement in the development of programs of care, protocols and clinical audit
- Excellent communicator/ negotiator
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Yvonne Spencer
- Job title
- Care Group Matron
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01254263555
- Additional information
bleep 313 through switchboard
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Employment Services
East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust
- Telephone
- 03033 301 033
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