Clinical Nurse - Inflammatory Bowel Disease Service
The closing date is 27 August 2025
Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Nurse Specialist to join our established Nurse Specialist Team at Ipswich Hospital.
Our dedicated Nurse Specialists provide an excellent, patient focused service to support and manage patients with a diagnosis of inflammatory bowel disease. This service is forward thinking and continually reviews and develop innovative models of care to ensure patients are provided with appropriate and timely treatment.
The ideal person would have recent IBD /gastroenterology nursing experience with a strong motivation and dedication to develop themselves and the service.If you would like to join our friendly, well established team and deliver a high quality service to our patients, we want to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will provide clinical expertise and support to patients, their family and carers. You will ensure safe delivery and continuing of patient care by co-ordinating them through their patient pathway.
You will work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, liaising with health care teams both internal and external to the organisation.
You will provide an advice line service so that patients can access expert advice in a timely manner.
You will have had experience of working on your own initiative and prioritising workload, as well as having excellent communication skills.
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Details
Date posted
13 August 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
432-HR589-25
Job locations
Ipswich Hospital
Heath Road
Ipswich
IP4 5PD
Employer details
Employer name
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Ipswich Hospital
Heath Road
Ipswich
IP4 5PD
Employer's website
https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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