Inflammatory Bowel Disease nurse specialist

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The closing date is 01 February 2026

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an aspiring individual to join our experienced, highly skilled Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Nursing Team,

We pride ourselves on providing the best possible experience to our patients and their families, ensuring clinical excellence and compassionate, thoughtful care at all times.

Our team would welcome a forward thinking, dynamic Nurse who is committed to ensuring our patients receive only the very best in evidence based Nursing care. The successful candidate will display excellent communication skills and be able to confidently liaise with all multi-disciplinary team members to ensure the safe, timely care of our patients.

Our IBD nurse specialist team cover a variety of demands including our patient advice line, outpatient clinics and inpatient support to name just a few.

Our team is tight knit and work well together, very supportive of each other. This vacancy would be suitable for a nurse with gastroenterology experience and ideally with experience of caring for patients with IBD

The role will require you to:

To work independently and within part of the nurse specialist team.

Duties will include reviewing patients in the clinic environment, and inpatient setting

Educating patients and their families regarding their diagnosis and treatment.

Assessing and triaging patients via the telephone advice line

Organisation and monitoring of biologic and immunosuppressant medication.

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team  are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification for key duties and responsibilities.

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• Communication and Relationship Skills
• Team player but able to manage their own workload independently
• Professional telephone manner
• Must be able to clearly and accurately convey information gathered for verbal and written reports
• Experience of clinical decision making
• Experience in caring for patients with inflammatory bowel disease
• Excellent time keeping and time management
• Good organisational skills
• Ability to work within a team and independently and use own initiative

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

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