Clinical Nurse Specialist: End Stage Liver Disease & Liver Transplant

Role Overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Band 7 Hepatology Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our busy, supportive nursing team for a fixed‑term maternity cover position. This role is ideal for a practitioner with a strong background in advanced liver disease who thrives on autonomy and delivering high‑quality, patient‑centred care. In return, we offer the chance to work within a highly innovative and collaborative team environment.

This contract provides an excellent platform to enhance your clinical skills and deepen your expertise in advanced liver disease and liver transplant while ensuring vital continuity of care for our patients.

• Manage a diverse caseload across inpatient and outpatient settings, running independent nurse‑led clinics to monitor patients.
• Act as the central point of contact and advocate for patients within the multidisciplinary team, ensuring seamless communication and robust links between the local service and the regional tertiary surgical transplant centre.
• Provide expert and complex care advice, education, and support for individuals and their carers through the development and provision of nurse‑led clinics, a designated telephone support line, and training of nursing and medical staff.
• Maintain effective communication systems with all other healthcare staff within the Trust responsible for the care of Hepatology, delivering timely and appropriate information in line with current best practice.
• Continually develop the service as part of the multidisciplinary team caring for patients with viral hepatitis, aiming to provide a comprehensive, patient‑focused service for this patient group.
• Utilise resources to meet current service needs for liver transplantation patients.
• Participate in service performance reviews and clinical audit, contributing to the implementation of clinical improvements that increase service effectiveness, efficiency and quality of care.

• Band 7 NHS grade with substantial post‑registration experience in hepatology or gastroenterology.
• Excellent clinical assessment skills and the ability to make confident, evidence‑based decisions.
• Outstanding communication skills to support patients and their families through an emotionally complex clinical journey.

Work within a highly innovative and collaborative team environment, enhancing your clinical skills and deepening your expertise in advanced liver disease and liver transplant while ensuring vital continuity of care for patients.