Staff Nurse, Endoscopy

North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust

Band 5 Staff nurse, Endoscopy Department up to 37.5 hours available

Are you looking for a new and exciting challenge? Endoscopy Nursing provides you with a varied role. Hours will be considered to give you a work life balance. We aim to provide a high standard of care to all our patients. We are very excited to move into our new purpose built Endoscopy unit in June 2025.

Plus, we are keen to nurture and develop our staff. Many of our staff progress onto Nurse specialist roles or Trainee Nurse endoscopists. Endoscopy can provide this opportunity for you.

Dedicated quarterly training and well being days are protected for all our nursing team.

Main duties of the job

We are a dynamic team and training and development is high on our agenda on the unit. As well as diagnostic procedures we specialise in GI Bleeding emergency cases daily, ERCP and Respiratory lists twice weekly.

If you are at all interested please feel free to come into the unit for a visit or alternatively send us an email.

The Trust will provide a twelve month preceptorship period for all newly registered healthcare professionals.

• Please ensure that you document evidence of meeting all the essential criteria in the supporting information.
• If sufficient response is received this post could be closed earlier than the specified closing date, please apply as soon as possible to ensure that your application is considered.

About us

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':

1. Being a clinically led organisation
2. Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
3. A positive patient experience every time
4. A great place to work
5. Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. All staff are expected to support sustainability.

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.

Please note, due to changes implemented by the Government to the UK immigration policy, individuals who require a Health and Care Visa or a Skilled Worker Visa may no longer be eligible for sponsorship where the UKVI salary threshold is not met or if the occupation is not included in the updated Immigration Salary List (ISL). Applicants must check their eligibility to be employed in any role they are interested in applying for, prior to completing an application for employment. Any applicants who do not meet the eligibility criteria will not be progressed.

If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.

Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.

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Disclosure and Barring Service:

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Registered nurse with active registration.
• Teaching qualification NST 307 or equivalent

Experience

• Relevant field of nursing.
• Clinical supervision.
• Mentor to pre-registration nursing students.

Knowledge

• Budgetary awareness.
• Continuing professional development with portfolio
• NMC code of professional conduct.
• Professional leadership within area of practice
• Equality legislation and best practice
• Role of the PCPI strategy.
• Audit and research in practice.

Skills and Aptitudes

• Developed communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work as a team member, without close supervision.
• Able to act as a clinical supervisor, mentor and preceptor.
• Able to demonstrate the compassionate values and behaviours needed for dignified care
• Able to undertake I.V. drug administration, cannulation and venepuncture.

Other requirements

• 7 day working
• Flexibility over working hours