Sister/ Charge Nurse - Endoscopy (Chorley) inChorley inChorley PUBLISHED 9 AUG 2024

Are you Caring and Compassionate?



We welcome you to join our friendly ENDOSCOPY team at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Sister/Charge Nurse.


Our speciality makes us exciting, ambitious and forward-thinking and we are looking for a committed, enthusiastic, motivated and resilient individual to join our nursing team.

This exciting opportunity will allow the individual to work alongside the Endoscopy managers to provide day to day leadership of the Endoscopy units. You will work as part of our dedicated, hardworking and friendly team in one of our two JAG accredited Endoscopy units within the Trust. Although you will be based on the CDH endoscopy units, you will be expected to provide cross site cover at RPH when needed and weekend GI Bleed rota cover.

We carry out a wide range of both diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures to both outpatients and inpatients, these include;


Chorley Hospital Procedures Include

• GI procedures including; OGD/Colonoscopy/Flexible sigmoidoscopy/Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)/Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)/Breath Tests.
• We work with the National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) as part of the team in the north-west.
• Diagnostic bronchoscopies.
  
  

Royal Preston Hospital Procedures Include

• GI procedures including; OGD/Colonoscopy/Flexible sigmoidoscopy/Endoscopic Mucosal Resection (EMR)/Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)/ Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)
• GI Emergency Bleed rota
• We work with the National Bowel Cancer Screening Programme (BCSP) as part of the team in the north-west.
• Diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopy including: Endobronchial Ultrasound/Trans Bronchial Needle Aspiration (EBUS/TBNA)/Endobronchial Valves and coils and stents/Thoracoscopy/Indwelling Pleural catheter (IPC) placement/Nasal-endoscopy for Induced Laryngeal Obstruction (ILO).
  
  

Your role will be to provide day to day leadership of the Endoscopy team (with the Endoscopy manager) to ensure that patients have a positive Endoscopy experience. You will have excellent communication skills, be forward thinking and well organised, with a positive attitude towards flexibility and change.

We have 10,000 fantastic people working hard to deliver quality services to our patients. Whatever your role, you help look after 370,000 people in our local area & give specialist care to 1.5 million people across Lancashire & Cumbria.

Working with us gives you the knowledge and sense of pride that every activity you do genuinely does make a difference to support our patients & staff, ensuring we keep thriving & delivering outstanding healthcare right across our local towns.

You’ll have access to varied development opportunities, learn new skills, meet fab people & do things you’d never have done. You’ll learn about working in a hospital, interacting with people from all different roles to build skills & enhance your career path.

You’ll make an impact, be challenged to think differently, be bold & help innovate to keep improving things. Everything we do centres around patient care and enhancing their experience which means your role is pivotal and something really to be proud of.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jacqueline Rosendale Job title: Endoscopy Manager Email address: Telephone number:


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Sr Aasiya Sheikh, RPH Endoscopy Unit

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