Gastroenterology Specialist Nurse Iron Deficiency Anaemia (IDA)

Are you a motivated, compassionate, and ambitious Registered Nurse with experience in Gastroenterology?

We are seeking an enthusiastic individual to join our Gastroenterology Nursing Team, providing a specialist nursing service for patients diagnosed with Iron Deficiency Anaemia (IDA). This is an exciting opportunity to use your clinical expertise, communication skills, and patient-centred approach to support individuals throughout their care pathway.

The successful candidate will work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary Gastroenterology team to deliver protocol-driven clinical decision-making and high-quality care for patients undergoing referral, investigation, diagnosis, treatment, and discharge on the IDA pathway.

This is a 12 month fixed-term contract or secondment opportunity, offering an excellent chance to develop your specialist gastroenterology knowledge, enhance your clinical leadership skills, and gain valuable experience within a supportive and progressive team environment.

You will play a key role in enhancing and developing the service, while building strong links with other healthcare professionals, services, and providers to ensure seamless patient care., Provide a specialist nursing service for patients and carers on the Iron Deficiency Anaemia (IDA) pathway, supporting them from referral through to investigation, diagnosis, treatment, and discharge.

Manage and coordinate a caseload of patients, ensuring the delivery of safe, high-quality, and clinically effective care.

Work collaboratively with the Gastroenterology Nursing Team and wider multidisciplinary team to deliver patient-centred care.

Undertake protocol-driven clinical assessment and decision-making within the scope of the role.

Contribute to the ongoing development and improvement of the IDA service and patient pathways.

Liaise effectively with other healthcare professionals, services, and external providers to support continuity of care.

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire University NHS FT, George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute NHS Hospitals 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 wed want for our family and friends.

More than 3,000 people work for the Trust they tell us its 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.