Job summary
- Main area
- Endoscopy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 193-7101500PCG
- Employer
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Berkshire Hospital
- Town
- Reading
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 01/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Staff Nurse (Endoscopy)
NHS AfC: Band 5
Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’. This is a great opportunity to join our clinical or non-clinical teams to create a positive and motivating environment within our trust. Come and join our team in this exciting time of change as we pride ourselves, our staff and our services on excellence.
At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”
We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions
We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate
We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live
We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice
Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.
Job overview
Band 5 Staff Nurse (Endoscopy)
Are you a Registered Nurse who is looking to develop and enhance your knowledge of Endoscopy?
We would love you to consider joining our JAG Accredited Unit at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and we think we have got something special to offer you.
We currently work a 6 day working week (Monday to Saturday 08:00 to 18:30) and have the benefit of doing self-rostering with priority requests.
Endoscopy is a friendly team and we welcome applicants from anyone who is a good team player and has a willingness to learn and develop new skills.
We are a busy, diagnostic and therapeutic unit dealing with out-patients and in-patients and we also support the Bowel Cancer Screening Programme.
The Royal Berkshire Endoscopy Unit is committed to delivering high quality patient-focused service - we are a well-equipped and modern department which specialises in a wide range of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures.
We are a JAG accredited unit and undertake bowel cancer screening as part of the National Screening Programme.
We are looking for dynamic individuals willing to learn some highly skilled endoscopy techniques and actively assist in providing quality care for patients undergoing endoscopy procedures.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide excellent individualised nursing care to patients attending the endoscopy unit from pre-assessment, support in the procedure rooms, through to discharge.
In return, we offer you a flexible and motivating work environment and you will have full support of the Endoscopy Unit in providing both a clinical and competency based training programme (Jets workforce).
In addition, the endoscopy unit consist of a multidisciplinary team and we encourage all our staff to develop their clinical, managerial and leadership skills in a positive learning environment.
We are a very busy, expanding unit and are looking for some reliable and flexible staff.
The unit is open Monday to Saturday 08:00 to 18:30.
Working for our organisation
Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is the main provider of hospital services for the population of Reading, Newbury, Wokingham and the towns and villages of west Berkshire.
At our heart we are a local hospital that works with NHS and social care partners to provide excellent healthcare services for over 500,000 people who currently live in our catchment area. We also provide specialist hospital services beyond the county’s borders.
Each year we are responsible for efficiently and effectively spending more than £400m of NHS resources on the services we provide.
As a founder member of the Berkshire West Integrated Care System, we are one of NHS England’s demonstrator sites for integration between primary, community, mental health and acute healthcare services.
The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our "CARE" values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
You will be responsible for undertaking and recording comprehensive nursing assessment and planning, delivering and evaluating high standards of evidenced-based nursing care to a diverse group of patients.
Deliver care without direct supervision and be accountable for the care delivered and any omissions of care.
Teach and supervise more junior staff, students and the non-registered nursing workforce.
Be accountable for care or any omissions of care that you delegate to others.
Act as role model, delivering care with empathy and compassion as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Please refer to the attached Job Description & Person Specification for further details.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse – part 1
- Current NMC registration
- Evidence of recent continuous professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in a hospital acute set up
Desirable criteria
- Relevant endoscopy experience
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Chiedza Chiweshe
- Job title
- Sister
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01183227458
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