Clinical Nurse Specialist: End Stage Liver Disease & Liver Transplant

Clinical Nurse Specialist:
End Stage Liver Disease & Liver Transplant

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.

You will manage a diverse and rewarding caseload across both inpatient and outpatient settings, running independent nurse-led clinics to monitor patients.

Acting as a central point of contact, you will be a fierce patient advocate within the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring seamless communication and robust links between our local service and regional tertiary surgical transplant centre. This position requires substantial post-registration experience in hepatology or gastroenterology, excellent clinical assessment skills, and the ability to make confident, evidence-based decisions. Outstanding communication skills are essential to support patients and their families through an emotionally complex clinical journey.

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.

We strongly recommend arranging an informal discussion.

To work as an autonomous Clinical Nurse Specialist within the Hepatology service specialising in liver transplantation and end stage liver disease, providing expert and complex care advice, clinical care, education, advice and support for individuals and their carers through the development and provision of nurse led clinics, a designated telephone support line and the training of nursing and medical staff

By working collaboratively within multi-professional teams, the Nurse Specialist will maintain effective communication systems especially 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.

To continually develop the service working as part of the multidisciplinary team caring for patients with viral hepatitis aiming to provide a comprehensive, patient focused service for this patient group

To utilise resources to meet current service needs for liver transplantation patients.

By participating in service performance reviews and clinical audit, the Nurse Specialist will contribute to the implementation of clinical improvements which will increase service effectiveness, efficiency and quality of care.

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time.

It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

• oFirst Level Registered Nurse
• oFirst level degree in health related area
• oENB 998 teaching qualification (or equivalent).
• oRelevant post-registration education such as the Liver Course
• oLeadership training or…