Job overview

Do you have experience in the management and care of patients with liver disease and are you passionate about improving Hepatology care for patients? We are looking for a motivated, dynamic person, with a genuine interest in liver disease to join the Hepatology team. 

The successful candidate must have an interest in delivering high quality, evidence-based care to patients with chronic liver conditions. You must be self-motivating, enthusiastic, organised, and able to demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills with a commitment to continued personal development. As a member of the multi-disciplinary Hepatology Team, the post holder will provide nursing expertise related to liver disease to colleagues across the Trust and community.

Main duties of the job

The post holder is to be responsible and accountable for the provision, and continued development of a specialist nursing service for patients with a variety of liver conditions working alongside the wider Hepatology/Gastroenterology team.  The post holder will manage a caseload of patients with a variety of chronic liver conditions including cirrhosis; liver steatosis, alcohol related liver disease, autoimmune liver disease and viral hepatitis with support from the multi-disciplinary Hepatology/Gastroenterology team. 

Using advanced practice skills and associated expertise the Hepatology CNS will undertake physical assessment and history taking of patients and provide immediate care and/ or initiate treatment as per clinical pathways/ protocols. The Hepatology CNS will undertake non-medical prescribing in line with Wye Valley NHS Trust policies and procedures. 
The post holder will facilitate nurse led clinics for hepatology patients, including cirrhosis follow-up clinics, abnormal LFT’s, viral hepatitis, fatty liver, hepatocellular carcinoma surveillance, and autoimmune liver disease and Fibroscan clinics.

The post holder will be part of the nurse led outpatient elective paracentesis service, independently undertaking once trained, elective paracentesis for ascites in decompensated liver disease.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.