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Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Endoscopy Staff Nurse

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Job summary

Do you want to enhance your present role? Change the direction of your career path? Newly qualified and want to work in an exciting department? If the answer is yes then the JAG accredited Endoscopy Service at Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust has an opportunity for a full time post and a 1 year fixed term post covering maternity leave for qualified Staff Nurses at Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary Endoscopy units. The Trust has two purpose built State of the Art Endoscopy units. One based at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary and one at the Calderdale Royal Hospital each with 3 theatres and a decontamination unit. The units deliver the Bowel Screening service alongside the diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy service to out-patients and in-patients and an acute service for GI bleeds. Both units are training units, training both Medical Staff and Clinical Endoscopists.

Main duties of the job

  • To work within the NMC code of professional practice, and within policies, procedures and guidelines of Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust.
  • Participate in the decontamination of endoscopic equipment and traceability of all equipment including paper and computer systems
  • Participate in an on call rota for acute upper GI patients needing emergency treatment
  • Assist endoscopists during diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic procedures and utilise all equipment appropriately as lead nurse
  • Identify own training needs associated with endoscopic equipment

About us

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Details

Date posted

08 May 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

372-SN165

Job locations

HRI/CRH

Huddersfield

HD3 3EA


Job description

Job responsibilities

To work within the NMC code of professional practice, and within policies, procedures and guidelines of Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Trust.

To ensure that high standards of nursing care are given and maintained and act when standards are not being maintained.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To work within the NMC code of professional practice, and within policies, procedures and guidelines of Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Trust.

To ensure that high standards of nursing care are given and maintained and act when standards are not being maintained.

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential

  • 1st Level Registration with NMC

Desirable

  • Teaching and facilitating qualification
  • Endoscopy qualification

Knowledge, experience and expertise

Essential

  • Knowledge and skill to plan, deliver, and evaluate high quality, evidence-based nursing care to a group of patients within the speciality of the post
  • Knowledge and skill in infection prevention and control principles and procedures
  • Competence in speciality or role specific extended skills required of the post or willingness to undertake necessary training.

Desirable

  • Cannulation skills
  • Knowledge of Endoscopy equipment
  • Previous theatre or Endoscopy experience
  • I.T. Skills

Communication and relationships

Essential

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to adapt to meet the requirements of patients, their families/carers, and professional colleagues.
  • Flexibility to meet the needs of the service
  • Ability to work under pressure
Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

Essential

  • 1st Level Registration with NMC

Desirable

  • Teaching and facilitating qualification
  • Endoscopy qualification

Knowledge, experience and expertise

Essential

  • Knowledge and skill to plan, deliver, and evaluate high quality, evidence-based nursing care to a group of patients within the speciality of the post
  • Knowledge and skill in infection prevention and control principles and procedures
  • Competence in speciality or role specific extended skills required of the post or willingness to undertake necessary training.

Desirable

  • Cannulation skills
  • Knowledge of Endoscopy equipment
  • Previous theatre or Endoscopy experience
  • I.T. Skills

Communication and relationships

Essential

  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to adapt to meet the requirements of patients, their families/carers, and professional colleagues.
  • Flexibility to meet the needs of the service
  • Ability to work under pressure

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Employer details

Employer name

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HRI/CRH

Huddersfield

HD3 3EA


Employer's website

https://www.cht.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Address

HRI/CRH

Huddersfield

HD3 3EA


Employer's website

https://www.cht.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Clinical Operations Manager

Joanne Priston

joanne.priston2@cht.nhs.uk

07876257234

Details

Date posted

08 May 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 5

Salary

£28,407 to £34,581 a year pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Flexible working

Reference number

372-SN165

Job locations

HRI/CRH

Huddersfield

HD3 3EA


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