Liver Nurse Specialist

Job summary

Liver Nurse Specialist - Hepatology (Fixed Term 6-month contract)

King's Mill Hospital, part of Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, is looking for a Liver Nurse Specialist to take on a key role within our Hepatology service for a 6-month period. This is an exciting opportunity for a dedicated professional to develop and lead liver surveillance initiatives, ensuring that the Trust meets national standards for hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance.

As a Liver Nurse Specialist, you will play an essential part in the delivery of high-quality care to patients with liver disease. You will work autonomously and within a multidisciplinary team, providing advanced nursing care, managing complex healthcare needs, and leading initiatives to improve liver care services. The role requires excellent leadership, communication, and organisational skills to ensure that all aspects of nursing practice are carried out to the highest standard, while also meeting the regulatory and clinical needs of the service.

This role offers the chance to work in a dynamic and supportive environment where you can make a real difference to patients' lives. You will also have the chance to contribute to the training and development of staff at all levels within the department, providing mentorship and expertise to junior nurses, medical staff and allied healthcare professionals.

This role will be supporting the newly built Community Diagnostics Centre (CDC) launching April 2026.

Main duties of the job

Key Responsibilities:

• Take the lead in managing and coordinating the clinical care of liver patients, including those with complex healthcare needs, in line with NICE guidelines.
• Independently manage your workload, maintaining responsibility and accountability for all aspects of professional nursing practice, including Nurse Prescribing.
• Provide an advanced and specialist nursing contribution to the multidisciplinary team in the clinical management of liver and gastroenterology patients.
• Triaging patients referred urgently to the specialist liver service within the gastroenterology team.
• Establish, maintain, and lead nurse-led clinics, ensuring the service is delivered effectively, equitably, and at a consistently high standard.
• Act as an educational resource for patients, carers, and healthcare professionals, including medical, nursing, and allied specialties.
• Promote and embody the Trust's CARE values in all aspects of your work.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Home Office guidance has changed as of the 9th April, anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.