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Job overview
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.
Main duties of the job
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
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.
Person specification
Skills
Essential
- · General knowledge of current health care and nursing issues
- · Up to date professional knowledge
- · Computer literate and report writing
- · Ability to work as an independent practitioner
- · Ability to critique and apply findings to clinical practice
- · Phlebotomy
- · Advanced communication skills
Experience
Essential
- • Experience at Band 6 or above in hepatology ideally in liver transplantation
- • Ability to manage a caseload of patients autonomously
- • Teaching patients and other professionals
- • Working in a multi-cultural community
- • Working with a range of multidisciplinary staff
- • Knowledge of audit and research and its application
- • Research experience managing patients on clinical trials
Desirable
- • Counselling experience
- • Resource Management
Qualifications
Essential
- • First Level Registered Nurse
- • First level degree in health related area
- • ENB 998 teaching qualification (or equivalent).
- • Relevant post-registration education such as the Liver Course
Desirable
- • Leadership training or qualification
- • Nurse Prescribing
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This advert is for Clinical Nurse Specialist: End Stage Liver Disease & Liver Transplant with Barts Health NHS Trust in London, London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Clinical nurse specialist role. The advertised salary is £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inc. The contract type is 12 months (Although this position is a 12 months fixed-term contract, the actual contract duration will be adjusted to account for the time taken to advertise the post, complete the hiring process, and finalise pre-employment checks. This means the contract will begin when the candidate starts the role and may be slightly shorter than 12 months.). The application deadline is 22 Jul 2026.
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