ERCP Lead Nurse

Overview

The Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) Specialist Nurse role offers an exciting opportunity to work collaboratively with the ERCP leads and endoscopists across all hospitals in Humber Health Partnership. The post holder will coordinate and deliver high-quality, patient-centered care in response to inpatient and outpatient referrals for ERCP and related screening procedures within the Endoscopy Unit. Acting as a patient advocate, the ERCP Specialist Nurse will provide expert support throughout all stages of the patient journey, from pre-assessment through to discharge, ensuring safe, effective, and compassionate care at every step.

The post holder will provide advanced, specialist nursing care to a defined caseload of patients undergoing ERCP. Working autonomously and in close partnership with the multidisciplinary team, they will develop, implement, and evaluate highly specialised, evidence-based plans of care, ensuring patients and carers are fully informed and supported to participate in decision-making. The role includes obtaining informed consent, communicating complex and sensitive information with compassion, coordinating referrals and follow-up, and acting as a key point of contact throughout the patient pathway.

The post holder will work across all hospitals within the Humber Health Partnership, covering both North and South Bank sites, to ensure equitable and consistent delivery of the ERCP/Spy Glass service.

• Coordinate and deliver high-quality, patient-centered care in response to inpatient and outpatient referrals for ERCP and related screening procedures within the Endoscopy Unit.
• Act as a patient advocate; provide expert support throughout all stages of the patient journey from pre-assessment through discharge, ensuring safe, effective, and compassionate care.
• Provide advanced, specialist nursing care to a defined caseload of patients undergoing ERCP.
• Work autonomously and in close partnership with the multidisciplinary team to develop, implement, and evaluate highly specialised, evidence-based plans of care, ensuring patients and carers are fully informed and supported to participate in decision-making.
• Obtain informed consent, communicate complex and sensitive information with compassion, coordinate referrals and follow-up, and act as a key point of contact throughout the patient pathway.
• Work across all Humber Health Partnership hospitals (North and South Bank sites) to ensure equitable and consistent delivery of the ERCP/Spy Glass service.
• Collaborate within a multidisciplinary team to manage a caseload of patients undergoing ERCP or Spy Glass procedures; coordinate and deliver holistic, patient-centred care through medical and surgical pathways.
• Serve as an interface between medical and nursing disciplines; foster collaboration and support ongoing development of nursing practice.
• Deliver advanced clinical care within the Endoscopy specialism through nurse-led clinics and independent nurse prescribing; promote timely interventions and seamless transitions between services and hospital Trusts.
• Cover all hospitals on North and South bank.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.