Nurse Specialist; Hepatology

Nurse Specialist (Hepatology)

The closing date is 01 July 2026

If you have a keen interest, experience or expertise working within Hepatology, this exciting new role could be for you. This is an exciting opportunity within Newcastle Hospitals Hepatology service who have recently acquired IQILS status. Over the last 4 years there has been investment in the nursing team across all areas including Alcohol Misuse, Auto‑Immune Hepatitis, Hepatic Cell Carcinoma, and Cirrhosis.

The focus of this role is Liver Cirrhosis, and the working week includes nurse‑led clinics, clinical interventions including paracentesis drainage. It also offers psychological and emotional support to our liver cirrhosis patients and their families from diagnosis throughout their journey, and sometimes supports End‑of‑Life Care. Patients are seen both at home and in the acute Trust.

This Cirrhosis nurse role is a relatively new development and constantly evolving. It is an opportunity to help shape this service and help it strive forward to provide a continued standard of excellence to our patients.

• Interview Date Thursday 16 July 2026
• You will be redirected to Trac to apply for the vacancy. Please expand the job details section and read all of the information before applying for the vacancy

NO AGENCIES PLEASE

This role is corporate standard hours working from 08.30‑16.30. Patients are seen within both a ward and out‑patient environment and include a full assessment of the patient utilizing Clinical skills and History Taking framework. There is great emphasis from the team for collaboration and close working with our consultants who have continued to provide support and training.

The successful applicant will have an induction period, shadow all members of the team, and be supported with university applications and further training needs for continued professional development. We also provide an education programme for student nurses and support newly qualified nurses with spoke days.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Royal Victoria Infirmary (RVI)
• Freeman Hospital
• Newcastle Dental Hospital
• Newcastle Fertility Centre
• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria
• Northern Genetics Service

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting‑edge care (supported by state‑of‑the‑art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under 'Documents to download' or 'Supporting documents'.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit:
Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

For those wishing to approach this as a Band 6 entry, it gives the opportunity for continued professional development including Clinical Skills and History Taking and completion of Non‑Medical Prescribing up to a 24 month period. This is with the goal of attaining Band 7 once competent in all elements of the role. For those wishing to approach this as a Band 7 entry, all relevant experience and qualifications will be considered.

Band 6

The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust define a nurse specialist as a qualified nurse where the primary purpose of the role is to provide guidance and support based on advanced level knowledge to patients, carers and health professionals concerning a specific disease/condition.

Within the sphere of specialist practice:

• Is working towards advanced knowledge and skills within specialist sphere of practice.
• Contributes to the facilitation of the planning, delivery and evaluation of…