Nurse EndoscopistinWakefieldinWakefieldPUBLISHED FRI 21 MAR 2025

Nurse Endoscopist Mid Yorkshire NHS Teaching Trust

Are you dynamic, highly motivated, and committed to improving patient outcomes and experience?

We are inviting applications for the role of Nurse Endoscopist to join our expanding Gastroenterology and Endoscopy team at Mid Yorkshire NHS Teaching Trust.

As a Nurse Endoscopist, you will play a key role in delivering high-quality endoscopy services across our sites. You will contribute to diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy and actively support service development in a rapidly growing department.

Comprehensive IBD, nutrition, hepatology, and HPB services with specialist nurse support. Full range of diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures, including capsule endoscopy, EUS, and ERCP.

This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an innovative team, enhancing patient care and shaping the future of Endoscopy services across the Mid Yorkshire footprint.

The primary aim of the role is to ensure that a high quality service is delivered to patients and their carers in a timely manner. The role is multidimensional and requires the post holder to integrate and fulfil all the identified dimensions.

The Nurse Endoscopist will provide upper or lower GI Endoscopy and colonoscopy including polypectomy for patients managed at the Trust and out-patients. The post holder will help support the national constitutional standards within the organisation and will be supported by a team of Consultant Gastroenterologists and Surgeons.

The Nurse Endoscopist will act as an autonomous, accountable practitioner working on their own initiative and in collaboration with nursing, medical and allied health professionals to assess individual patient needs, initiate investigations, determine a differential diagnosis and initiate appropriate holistic evidence based treatment and care. The post holder will also support the speciality prepare for JAG accreditation and GRS requirements as well as help improve, rationalise and enhance current services across the Endoscopy Units.

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Key Responsibilities

• To be competent in the assessment and treatment of patients presenting with a range of undifferentiated and undiagnosed illnesses underpinned by extensive knowledge of a range of chronic and acute conditions.
• To be competent in providing an initial clinical diagnosis and in the decision to refer to an appropriate speciality.
• To be competent in the ability to discharge patients following appropriate assessment and treatment.
• To be competent in the initial immediate assessment and treatment of patients with a range of life threatening presentations such as cardiac arrest and acute major illness.
• To be able to see, treat and refer appropriately, a broad range of patients with acute and chronic illnesses as an autonomous practitioner.
• Administration of medicines, e.g. in line with NMC Guidance and Trust Policy.
• Demonstrate own personal development with self-directed learning and identifying and accessing internal and external development opportunities, as per individual advanced practice portfolio.
• Autonomous decision making including judgments involving complex facts or situations which require the analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options in relation to the care/ management needs of the patients on a day to day basis within the clinical environment.
• Conduct physical assessments, examinations, and investigations to identify abnormalities and make diagnoses and administer a comprehensive and appropriate level of care.
• Use of advanced clinical skills and autonomous judgement to prescribe drug treatments for patients following interpretation of clinical findings through requested bloods and investigations across several broad and varied clinical fields.
• Use best practice, analyse evidence based practice, use of benchmarking to inform clinical practice.
• Provide detailed and transparent reports of workload, outcomes, and recommendations for future developments; demonstrated in advanced practice portfolio this should include case based discussions, multi-source feedback, etc.
• Be accountable for the direct delivery and implementation of clinical care on a day to day basis across the full spectrum of illnesses and therapy management.
• Provide personal care plans to patients and develop, implement and evaluate care including independently prescribed medications, monitoring therapeutic programmes and providing health education and promotion.
• Be proactive in developing new ways of working, such as ACP / Nurse Endoscopist led initiatives to increase the quality of the patient journey and the ward efficiency.
• Provide health education and advice to patients.
• Be a safe and competent non-Medical Prescriber-providing responsible prescribing and adapting medication therapies to meet the needs of patients.

Communication

• Demonstrate the skills required to communicate, establish and maintain therapeutic and professional relationships and gain cooperation from others.
• Demonstrate the ability to provide information that requires detailed or involved explanation including the balanced communication of risk and benefits of tests and alternatives.
• Utilise skills to persuade, influence, negotiate, motivate, emphasise and communicate unpleasant or bad news sensitively and provide counselling and reassurance.
• Use tact and diplomacy while communicating and influencing change.
• Give advice, instruction, training and present formally.
• Advise and support colleagues, where standard protocols do not apply, draw upon advanced knowledge and skills make appropriate judgements and decisions to deliver high standards of care.
• Responsible for recording, processing, and storage of information that is personally generated.
• Ability to use relevant networks and clinical programs e.g. SystmOne, Endoscopy reporting system, Vital Pack and email.