Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

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Job overview

An exciting opportunity to join a progressive and expanding Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) team and an opportunity to help reshape the service.

The post holder will provide specialist nursing care, advice and support for people with inflammatory bowel disease.  This will involve autonomously managing a case load of patients with Inflammatory bowel disease who are on biological and immunomodulator therapies in nurse led outpatient telephone clinics with Clinical Supervision from the senior Nursing team and Consultants. The post holder will undertake all relevant forms of nursing care and patient management, supported by evidence-based practice, liaising with the multi-disciplinary team, with the objective of providing high quality, safe nursing care. The post holder must always act in an accountable manner, adhering to the NMC Code of Professional Conduct and Trust polices.

Main duties of the job

• The post holder will be an integral member of the wider gastroenterology team consisting of specialist nurses and Doctors 
• To deliver evidence based clinical care and review biologics patients and those on immunomodulator medications
• To help develop new ways of working with how we communicate with patients via the IBD adviceline
• To deliver MDT outcomes to patients via telephone and email  
• To be self-directing and work autonomously, identifying and maintaining supportive networks.
• To demonstrate a higher level of practice through the provision of specialist nursing knowledge and expertise in the delivery of care through participating in local and regional MDT radiology/clinical/business meetings.
• To establish and maintain robust communication channels with professional colleagues across a range of services including primary, secondary and tertiary care.
• To support the IBD department in national audit and research initiatives.
• To take an active role in triaging patients care, promoting self-management and responding to helpline queries 

• To rotate across sites within the Trust.
• There will be an opportunity to specialize in management of biologics patients.

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