Gastroenterology Nurse Consultant

1. Provide expert professional advice to patient, carers, and colleagues.

2. Provided education and training to other staff and students.

3. Ensure the maintenance of clinical excellence.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

Work as an independent consultant practitioner delivering a comprehensive service to patients, employing a high degree of personal and professional autonomy demonstrating highly advanced clinical expertise, competence, levels of judgement, discretion and decision making in all aspects of clinical care. Demonstrating a sound understanding of the issues related to the identification, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and management of the patient group.

Contribute to the clinical and strategic direction for the development of the service and will be a key member of the senior clinical and management team, providing senior leadership and influencing organisational initiatives related to the specialist area.

Lead the development and implementation of a research strategy within the service, resulting in increased research activity and wider understanding of the service.

Deliver clinical care for approx. 70% of their time but with approx. 30% of their time devoted to education/training, research and service evaluation, professional, personal, and service development, dependant upon the particular needs of the service and the job plan.

The Trust's services are provided from three locations: o The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 473 general and acute beds. o Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 60 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility. o Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population. The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust employs 5,964 staff (headcount) to provide care and treatment to a population of over 400,000 people living in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care System. Due to its location on the border with North Wales, the Trust also works closely with the Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust treats patients from England and some parts of Wales. During 2024/2025, there were approximately 643,000 patient attendances (inpatient, A&E,
outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery