# Hepatology Clinical Nurse Specialist **Company**: Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust **Location**: Chelsea **Work arrangement**: onsite **Experience**: senior **Job type**: part-time **Salary**: £58,133 to £65,261 a year **Category**: Healthcare **Industry**: Healthcare **Apply**: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9289-EI-205?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_d712f243-45e ## Description We are seeking a highly skilled Hepatology Clinical Nurse Specialist to join our team at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. The successful candidate will have a key role in delivering high-quality hepatology services, working closely with other clinical colleagues to provide expert care, treatment, and support for patients with liver conditions. The post holder will contribute to advancing the body of knowledge through education, research, and audit, as well as developing practice. They will play a key role within the multidisciplinary team to ensure a seamless, coordinated, and timely approach to care. **Main Duties of the Job:** - Receive referrals within the specialty from the healthcare team and respond to requests for expert advice and guidance - Work within an agreed job plan to meet service needs, reviewed annually - Work across sites at both Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex Hospital, in addition to outreach clinics - Conduct holistic assessments and provide supervision and guidance to colleagues in skilled history taking, physical examination, observation, and ordering, conducting, and interpreting relevant tests and investigations - Work in collaboration with the multi-professional team, contributing expert, evidence-based knowledge and skills to relevant aspects of patient care and treatment - Maintain boundaries of own practice within agreed guidelines and protocols, using professional judgment in managing complex and unpredictable situations, and seek guidance from other relevant experts - Address patient's risk factors and health promotion needs through comprehensive assessment of individuals for risk factors and early signs of illness **Job Responsibilities:** - Plan, implement, and evaluate teaching sessions for ward staff involved in caring for hepatology patients - Act as a resource for pre- and post-registration nurses - Provide opportunities to shadow the Hepatology CNS, e.g., student nurses, newly qualified nurses, nurses on induction, dieticians, medical students - Demonstrate expert knowledge of the literature regarding hepatology by regularly reviewing the literature and applying it to practice - Undertake responsibility for own professional development, undertake appropriate activities, attend relevant conferences to update clinical knowledge and skills, and apply to practice - Act as a resource for hepatology within the Trust and other external agencies - Recognize own limitations whilst working within the Scope of Professional Practice **Benefits:** - Competitive salary: £58,133 to £65,261 per annum - Part-time, fixed-term contract for 12 months - Opportunities for professional development and growth - Strong multidisciplinary team with a focus on education and research **Person Specification:** - Registered Nurse - Degree/Dip HE - Post-registration experience within hepatology - Ability to run clinics independently - Leadership qualification (desirable) ## Skills ### Required - Hepatology - Clinical Nurse Specialist - Nursing - Patient Care - Education - Research ### Nice to have - Leadership qualification --- Source: [Apply at jobs.nhs.uk](https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9289-EI-205?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)