Clinical Nurse Specialist Inflammatory Bowel Disease (Band 6)

The post is an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team caring for patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease, involving specialised nursing skills and leadership competencies which contribute to the effective and economical use of available resources

• To improve disease management, concordance and patient satisfaction by providing a specialist nursing contribution within the multi-disciplinary team to patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Care maybe provided jointly by Gastroenterology and Surgery and the IBD Nurse will develop an understanding of all aspects of medical and surgical care for patients with IBD in order to play an active role providing care within both specialties.
• Responsible for the assessment of care need and the development, implementation and evaluation of complex programmes of evidence based patient care. Assessment may take place in outpatient clinic, ward or via telephone.
• Delivers enhanced nursing skills within complex patient care pathways

We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.

We want to attract staff who embrace our Right Care behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients we want to make these part of our DNA.

For further information and full details of the role please see the attached job description and person specification.