Iron Deficiency Anaemia Clinical Nurse Specialist
Posted 6 hours 8 minutes ago by NHS
Are you a dynamic, hard-working and ambitious registered Nurse with experience of Gastroenterology?
Would you like the opportunity to use your experience and excellent interpersonal skills to provide and develop a specialist nursing service to patients and their carers on an Iron Deficiency Anaemia (IDA) pathway within the Gastroenterology Team?
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Gastroenterology team. The successful candidate will work collaboratively with the Gastroenterology team to provide protocol-driven clinical decision making for patients on the IDA pathway.
This post will complement the existing Gastroenterology Nursing Team and will network with other health services and providers.
This post is 19.5 hours a week, fixed term for 2 years funded by the Wessex Cancer Alliance.
Main duties of the job- To provide a specialist nursing service to patients and their carers on an Iron Deficiency Anaemia (IDA) pathway from their period of referral, investigation, diagnosis, treatment and discharge.
- Manage a caseload of patients, delivering high quality and clinically effective patient care.
- This post will complement the existing Gastroenterology Nursing Team and will work collaboratively with the other members of the team.
- This new post will support the Gastroenterology Consultants in providing timely and high-quality assessment of patients referred with iron deficiency anaemia (IDA).
- Deliver nurse-led clinics, complete clinical assessment of patients and arrange endoscopic and radiological investigations as per protocol.
- In partnership with the gastroenterology Consultants, the post holder will triage 2 week wait referrals into the most appropriate pathway to ensure effective use of services and maintain the associated cancer performance standards.
- To support patients throughout their Endoscopy pre-assessment pathway, working as part of the screening and pre-assessment team, with a high level of input into the management and care of patients prior to admission for specified procedures.
- Registered Nurse
- Nursing Degree
- Master's level study
- Teaching Qualification
- Advanced Clinical Assessment course
- Advanced communication skills course
- Demonstrates highly developed specialist knowledge
- Ability to organise and prioritise workload effectively
- Ability to exercise sound judgements when faced with conflicting pressures
- Ability to manage and lead a working group
- Ability to implement and interpret policies and procedures
- Experience of conducting clinical audit
- Assisting in the educational development of students through student shadowing and/or teaching
- Experience of service development
- Gastroenterology nursing experience
- Telephone triage/clinics
- History taking and physical examination skills
- Ability to work well with colleagues and within a team
- Ability to adhere to regulations as well as work flexibly to meet the needs of the Trust
- Energy and enthusiasm and the ability to work under pressure
- An inquiring and critical approach to work
- Caring attitude toward patients
- Ability to communicate effectively and sensitively with colleagues, patients, relatives, nurses, other staff and agencies
- Commitment to professional development.
- Knowledge and understanding of the main indications for referral into the gastroenterology 2 week wait cancer service
- Knowledge of medical procedures and terminology
- Clinical governance responsibilities
- Awareness of current developments and initiatives in gastroenterology services
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
ContractFixed term
Duration24 months
Working patternPart-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours