An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Inflammatory Bowel Disease Nurse (IBD), to join a small nursing team delivering care to patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD: Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis). This is an interesting and varied post involving face to face as well as remote care, management of medications including specialist immunological treatments. Your input into other areas of IBD patient management such as support of inpatients will give additional breadth to the role. At band 6 entry level you will have support from the existing Lead IBD Clinical Nurse Specialist and the wider nursing team. Regular in-house teaching and appropriate external conferences also support essential knowledge in this fast moving field. Personal attributes you will need are excellent communication and interpersonal skills with an ability to maintain accuracy and attention to detail even when working under pressure. You must also be proactive and motivated to learn this specialist field to high standard and deliver high-quality, safe, evidence based and compassionate patient care, with excellent organisational skills and be computer literate.
Main duties of the job Running follow-up, rapid access and telephone clinics Managing an immunosuppression service Administration and monitoring of anti-TNF therapy Providing nutritional advice Providing education and counselling Developing and defining IBD services Liaising with a multidisciplinary IBD team Co-ordinating colorectal cancer surveillance for IBD patients. Person specification Registered Nurse RGN Minimum of 12 months Gastroenterology experience 3 years post registration experience Willing to undertake non medical prescribing course Important information about your application All correspondence will be sent to you via the email address you applied from. Please ensure you check your emails regularly. References - please ensure you provide email addresses for all referees for the last three years of employment. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from everyone regardless of ethnicity, disability, gender, age, faith or sexual orientation. Appointment will be based on merit alone. Flexible working will be considered in line with Trust policies. New recruits are required to pay for their Disclosure and Barring Service check (and admin fee) prior to starting if the role requires a DBS check. #J-18808-Ljbffr