Specialist Clinician - In Healthy Bowel | Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Clinician with the Colorectal Healthy Bowel Service at LUHFT
This is an exciting opportunity for a permanent position for a Specialist Clinician to support the Colorectal Healthy Bowel Service managing patients across Merseyside with functional bowel disorders including constipation, obstructive defecation and faecal incontinence.
Working with the Colorectal multidisciplinary team across Liverpool University Hospitals you will play a key role in contributing to this high quality patient centred service including involvement and participation at MDT meetings and outpatient clinics.
On a day to day basis you will have your own out-patient clinic stream, providing specialist assessment of Healthy Bowel Clinic patients, ordering and interpreting appropriate investigations and using sound clinical reasoning skills to implement agreed treatment plans within local and national guidelines.You will be supported by the Advanced Clinical Practitioner, Colorectal Consultants and Managers in further developing your skills in order to fulfil this role.
To be responsible for providing specialist assessment and treatment ofpatients presenting with functional bowel conditions ensuring appropriate
pathways of care and communications via liaison and referral to other
agencies as required.
▪ To liaise with a team of Clinicians and assist in the implementation ofservices within the clinical governance framework.
▪ To provide optimal patient care ensuring high standards of clinical practice.
▪ To prepare and deliver audit projects and presentations as required to
raise the profile of the service.
▪ Lead an area of specialty within the Healthy Bowel Clinic
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.
Clinical- To undertake specialist assessment, clinically diagnose and implement
patients in the manner that respects peoples’ privacy, dignity and
individuality.
- To regularly advise, assist and educate other clinicians on the management
- To ensure effective two-way communication with patients, carers and
- To provide and receive complex information that requires empathy and
- Lead an area of specialty within the Healthy Bowel Clinic e.g., Irrigation;
partnership with other specialist clinicians, the Advanced Clinical
Practitioner, Colorectal Consultants and Managers
This advert closes on Tuesday 11 Mar 2025