Job summary
- Main area
- Endoscopy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- This is a bank role
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 096-5703351
- Employer
- Merseyside & West Lancashire NHS Lead Employer
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cheshire and Merseyside NHS Collaborative Bank
- Town
- St Helen's
- Salary
- Pay will be per hour on a bank basis equivalent to band 8a
- Closing
- 31/08/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Bank Senior Endoscopy Nurse
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
Are you a Senior Endoscopy Nurse looking for flexible working across a variety of NHS Trusts in the Cheshire and Merseyside region?
We are looking for Bank Nurses who specialise in NHS Endoscopy to join the new Cheshire and Merseyside NHS Collaborative Bank.
By joining this new collaborative bank, you would open up access to a greater choice when it comes to working additional hours, the additional benefits include:
- earning additional pensionable income - paid on a weekly basis
- choosing duties or shifts to suit your work life balance
- gaining experience working in another Endoscopy department/Trust
- sharing learning and knowledge with others within the field of Endoscopy
Main duties of the job
The Cheshire and Merseyside NHS Collaborative Bank are looking for bank nurses with current NMC registration who specialise and have experience of NHS Endoscopy to work across a variety of endoscopy units across Merseyside and Cheshire on a bank basis.
You will need to be adaptable in your approach to work, enthusiastic and a self-motivated individual with up to date endoscopy skills who is able to integrate quickly and work as part of the team. You will need to have excellent verbal and written communication skills.
The NHS constitutional values and 6Cs are at the heart of everything we do at the NW Collaborative Bank, and it is vitally important that our workers represent these values at all times. There are six values in the NHS Constitution:
- working together for patients.
- respect and dignity.
- commitment to quality of care.
- compassion.
- improving lives.
- everyone counts.
Working for our organisation
Lead Employer has partnered up with a number of NHS Trusts across Merseyside and Cheshire and the workforce platform Patchwork Health to launch the Cheshire and Merseyside Collaborative Bank.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please review the job description and person specification.
Please be aware that this job description describes the substantive job role, which the individual would work on a bank basis, which means that not all elements of the job description may apply. As this is a generic job description the post-holder will be given further information regarding the context of their role when assigned to a specific ward/department.
Person specification
Person Specification
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse
- Independent Non-medical prescriber
- Clinical Examination Qualification
- Evidence of professional service development
- Completion of approved clinical Endoscopist course upper & lower
- JAG Upper Endoscopy Competent
- JAG Lower Endoscopy Competent
- Evidence of independent reporting & pathology follow up
- Understands and demonstrates the Trust Values of quality, teamwork, care and compassion, dignity and respect and openness, honesty and responsibility through the application of appropriate behaviours and attitudes
Desirable criteria
- Higher Degree or evidence of study at higher level e.g. HEE clinical Endoscopist modules
- Higher Degree (Advanced practice or related)
- Experience of Staff Leadership & Management
- Good working knowledge of GIN, JAG and GRS
- Bowel screening colonoscopy
- Therapeutic upper & lower GI procedures e.g. IBD dye spray surveillance, complex polypectomy, oesophageal dilatation, Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG)
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
- Cheshire and Merseyside NHS Collaborative Bank
- Job title
- Recruitment Team
- Email address
- [email protected]
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