Staff Nurse Endoscopy - Band 5

Job summary

United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust are proud to offer a JAG accredited Endoscopy service. We have a great opportunity for a registered nurse to join our prestigious team . We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated staff nurse to join our fantastic team, who in turn will ensure that you are supported in a friendly and progressive environment.

The Endoscopy Units' within the Trust perform a variety of standard and advanced Endoscopic procedures for both out-patients and in-patients including gastroscopy, flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, oesophageal stenting and other specialist work is also undertaken by individual consultants. The Endoscopy Unit is presently open between 08:00hrs and 19:00hrs 7 days a week, these hours are subject to review to meet the needs of the service and evening work will be introduced at later date. Our aim is to provide the very highest standards of care to patients and relatives a like ensuring privacy and dignity is maintained at all times

Main duties of the job

Reporting to the Endoscopy Sister, the successful candidate will be responsible for the decontamination of endoscopes, assisting endoscopists in the procedure room, acting as the patients' advocate, ensuring privacy and dignity throughout the endoscopy journey. They should be able to demonstrate good leadership skills, be adaptable to a changing environment and possess good written and verbal communication skills. There will be a need to work flexibly to meet the needs of the Endoscopy service, a commitment to personal/professional development is required and a teaching/mentorship certificate would be desirable.

About us

Our Trust is situated in the beautiful county of Lincolnshire and is one of the biggest acute hospital trusts in England, serving a population of more than 700,000 people. We provide acute and specialist services to people in Lincolnshire and neighbouring counties. We have an annual income of £643 million (20/21) and we employ nearly 8,500 people.

Our Board have recently agreed a new vision statement - "Outstanding Care Personally Delivered" - stating their ambition for our Trust to be among the best.

We also have a five year Integrated Improvement Plan setting out how we will achieve our strategic objectives, for patients, services, people and partners, the last recognising that our future success depends on our ability to ensure the Lincolnshire healthcare system is successful in achieving its ambition to help people live healthier lives and provide care closer to where people live.

Our latest CQC report increased our ratings for being effective and well-led from 'Requires Improvement' to 'Good'. Our rating for caring remained as 'Good'.

This is in recognition of the huge amount of work that our amazing staff have done to improve the quality of care for our patients in recent years.

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated.