Job summary
- Main area
- Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
- Grade
- Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: Part time with the potential to go to full time in 6 to 9 months
- Hours
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 197-LC6759
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospital Lewisham
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £53,755 - £60,504 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/05/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Clinical Nurse Specialist - Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Band 8a
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
Job Summary:
To provide a high-quality autonomous nurse-led Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) service across Lewisham and Greenwich Healthcare NHS Trust.
Through line management of the clinical nurse specialists within the specialism and working in close collaboration with consultants and other clinical colleagues, lead the development in the delivery and expansion of an expert nurse-led service across the organisation.
The post holder will contribute to advancing the body of knowledge through education, research and audit with the aim of improving access to treatment services. The post holder will have a key role in ensuring seamless, co-ordinated and timely approach to care for their patient group.
The post holder will also provide leadership, management and a high level of clinical expertise in their specialism and contribute to the support, education and training for their team and other healthcare professionals.
The post holder will have a clear understanding of the strategic political view and challenges faced by primary and secondary care through the STP in meeting recommendations for the development of the service and will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team in the planning and development of a more integrated service for patients across primary and secondary care.
This post will include working and travelling to both acute hospital sites
Main duties of the job
To provide a high-quality autonomous nurse-led Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) service across Lewisham and Greenwich Healthcare NHS Trust.
Through line management of the clinical nurse specialists within the specialism and working in close collaboration with consultants and other clinical colleagues, lead the development in the delivery and expansion of an expert nurse-led service across the organisation.
The post holder will contribute to advancing the body of knowledge through education, research and audit with the aim of improving access to treatment services. The post holder will have a key role in ensuring seamless, co-ordinated and timely approach to care for their patient group.
The post holder will also provide leadership, management and a high level of clinical expertise in their specialism and contribute to the support, education and training for their team and other healthcare professionals.
The post holder will have a clear understanding of the strategic political view and challenges faced by primary and secondary care through the STP in meeting recommendations for the development of the service and will work collaboratively with the multi-disciplinary team in the planning and development of a more integrated service for patients across primary and secondary care.
Working for our organisation
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Workforce
Act as a resource to others by providing specialist teaching and improving knowledge and skills.
Act as a role model, supervise, mentor and offer peer support to colleagues, junior staff and students in line with Trust Values and Behaviours.
To share and develop good practice and promote evidence based practice.
Develop strategies to communicate new developments to staff and other colleagues actively.
To line manage the IBD nursing and auxiliary team and develop the nursing service within the specialty ensuring that performance, appraisals and mandatory training is in accordance with Trust standards.
To participate in the development and delivery of pre-registration and post-registration education effectively in order to deliver the Trust’s objectives.
Financial
To be the budget holder for the service
To work closely with the Head of Nursing to contribute to the identification, analysis and discussion of cost pressures and financial constraints in a timely manner.
To contribute to the effective financial management of the service by ensuring effective use of manpower and non-pay resources and equipment, ensuring that expenditure is kept within budget targets and in accordance with the Trust’s Standing Financial Instructions (SFIs).
Partnerships
Liaise appropriately with all key members of the multi-disciplinary team and users of the service
To work with the multi-disciplinary team to facilitate and implement service changes to improve practice.
To liaise with colleagues across the Trust and externally.
To establish strong working links with other key colleagues within the directorate both within the multi-professional team and external bodies outside organisation.
To promote referrals to the service in accordance with the national agenda and best practice.
Communications and Relationships
To promote the service within the Trust and externally.
Ensure all communication which may be highly complex, contentious or highly sensitive is undertaken in a responsive and inclusive manner, focusing on improvement.
Deploy advanced communication skills ensuring effective communication with patients and relatives particularly when they are emotionally distressed.
Champion effective communication with all members of the MDT, wards, community teams and departments, to provide seamless and effective care management for patients.
To discuss/review patients with the multi-disciplinary team to address patients’ health needs through planning and delivering interventions which are in accordance with NICE guidance as appropriate.
To identify, develop and sustain mechanisms to support patient involvement and feedback on a regular basis to inform service changes.
Ensure all communication is presented appropriately to different recipients, according to level of understanding, type of communication being imparted and possible barriers such as language, culture, understanding or physical or mental health conditions.
General
To ensure evidence based practice by being up to date with literature in order to influence and update Trust guidelines to ensure high quality care.
To be conversant with current legislation / NICE guidance and national policy and implement as appropriate.
To participate in quality assurance and audit, ensuring guidelines are adhered to and monitored accordingly.
To be clinically visible to staff and patients.
To be able to concentrate when the work is unpredictable as will be contactable by bleep/mobile phone.
Participate in Corporate Nursing initiatives and support the implementation of the Nursing and Midwifery strategy.
Continue to develop own scope of professional practice and contribute to the advancement of the role by attending national and local clinical meetings and feeding back as appropriate.
Take responsibility for own professional development in accordance with PDR and service objectives and attend study days and courses in agreement with manager.
Contribute to ensuring that the team adheres to good practice guidelines and acts within the NMC code of conduct at all times.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Degree
- Registered Nurse (Part 1)
- Post registration qualification or equivalent experience in specialty
- Master’s degree in relevant discipline or in process of studying to Masters level.
- Teaching and assessing qualification
Desirable criteria
- Independent non-medical prescribing qualification.
- NHS Professional Nurse Advocate
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience of working in the specialty.
- Senior clinical experience within speciality.
- Partnership/multi-professional working.
- Managing staff
- Developing and implementing service development initiatives
- Demonstrate experience of change management.
- Experience of running nurse-led clinics
- Developing and implementing educational programmes for patients and staff.
- Research and audit.
- Proven track record of staff development and team working.
Desirable criteria
- Effective budget management.
- Service/professional presentations to a wide group.
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Advanced nursing skills relevant to specialty.
- Advanced verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Experience of managing and leading a team.
- Working with and within a diverse community.
- Demonstrates innovative thinking.
- Facilitation skills.
- Understanding of the health and social care agenda and commissioning processes in the current political environment.
Desirable criteria
- Presentation and publishing experience.
- Finance and resource management.
- Knowledge base of research methodology.
- Project management skills.
- IT skills word/excel
- Keyboard skills
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Leadership qualities.
- Facilitative working style.
- Sensitivity to emotional situations.
- Able to use own initiative.
- Ability to deal with stressful situations and to manage conflicting priorities
- Able to cope with interruptions and adapting workload to service need.
- Ability to work autonomously and as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
- Good attendance record.
- Flexible and able to work on any hospital site,
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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
- Ugochi Agbasimelo
- Job title
- Head of Nursing
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07833485107
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