Job summary
- Main area
- bowel disease
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 197-LC7174
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospital Lewisham
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 Per Annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Inflammatory Bowel Disease Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS)
Band 7
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
To provide an autonomous nurse led inflammatory bowel disease service in Lewisham and Greenwich Healthcare NHS Trust (Cross Site Working) ensuring delivery and expansion of an expert and advanced quality nurse-led service through effective interdisciplinary care, utilising clinical and managerial expertise. Provide education and support with the aim of improving access to treatment services.
The post holder will be responsible for contributing to the ongoing development of clinical practice, research and standards within the service. Including development of policies, protocols and guidelines work collaboratively with all staff within the multidisciplinary team, providing support, advice and formal education. To ensure the safety and wellbeing of services users, and always working in a manner that promotes dignity and respect thorough patient centered care principles. To act in an advisory capacity and as point of contract for patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease conditions.
To contribute to the service development of inflammatory Bowel disease, within gastroenterology including clinical governance and audit.
Though based at University Hospital Lewisham, this is a cross-site role and the post holder will be required to work cross-site to deliver the expected outcomes for our patients
Main duties of the job
Provide nurse led clinics that will deliver direct nursing care, monitoring the efficacy and compliance of patients undergoing therapy.
Assess, monitor and evaluate disease activity and drug therapy of patients by initiating and interpreting clinical data
Act as an advocate to empower patients, their families and other carers to participate in decisions regarding their care.
Ensure optimum liaison and co-ordination of care for patients between primary and secondary care.
Identify the physical, social and psychological needs of patients experiencing gastroenterological conditions and monitor outcomes.
Document and maintain accurate records in line with professional standards of record keeping.
Contribute to the development and updating of nursing policy, guidelines/protocols and integrated care pathways with the gastroenterology service and ensure a high standard of care through ongoing review.
Undertake nurse led clinics for patients accepting referrals from Consultant colleagues and admitting and discharging patients from own caseload as appropriate.
Provide expert clinical information and advice to patients, carers and GPs through telephone advice lines / email
Provide effective teaching to individual patients and their families about their condition, treatment options and possible side effects.
Prioritise own workload and manage time effectively. Identify priorities and integrate with existing support networks.
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
Act as a resource to others by teaching and improving knowledge and skills.
Act as a role model, supervise, mentor and offer peer support to colleagues, junior staff and students.
Share and develop good practice and promote evidence based practice.
Develop strategies to communicate new developments to staff and other colleagues actively
Work closely with the Lead IBD CNS to deliver the cost improvement plan for gastroenterology
Work with the multi-disciplinary team to facilitate service change, improve practice and ensure the best use of resources.
Liaise appropriately with all key members of the multi-disciplinary team and users of the service
Be required to liaise with colleagues across the Trust and externally.
Establish strong working links with other key colleagues within the directorate, both within the multi-professional team and external bodies outside organisation.
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 where appropriate.
To identify, develop and sustain mechanisms to support patient involvement and feedback on a regular basis.
Employ effective decision making skills to address complex issues and use effective change management skills to complement them.
Person specification
Application form and interview
Essential criteria
- NMC Registration
- BSc Adult Nursing
Application form and interview
Essential criteria
- BSc Adult Nursing
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
- Kem Okuwobi
- Job title
- Lead IBD CNS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07500559478
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