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ENT Nurse Specialist
Grade
NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref
361-7345793
Employer
East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Lister Hospital
Town
Stevenage
Salary
£38,682 - £46,580 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/08/2025 23:59

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East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust logo

ENT Nurse Specialist Head and Neck & Preoperative Assessment

NHS AfC: Band 6

Here at  East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust,

Our mission is:
Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities

Our vision to 2030 is:
To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service

 

Job overview

We are recruiting for a ENT Nurse Specialist who shares our vision to be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

The ENT Clinical Nurse Specialist provides expert nursing care, advice, and support to patients with ear, nose, and throat conditions, as well as their families and carers. This role involves leading nurse-led clinics, delivering advanced clinical assessments, and working collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams to ensure high-quality, continuous care across peri-operative and post-operative pathways. 

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us. 

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will deliver effective nurse led clinics for ENT patients, using advanced assessment skills for examination, including full medical clerking, ordering investigations and using venepuncture skills.

You will be in a position to develop processes to improve access to services liaison with admission department and all ENT doctors.

The post holder will look to implement a research based approach to patient assessment and care planning.

You will also work collaboratively with other disciplines from multidisciplinary teams e.g. Consultant surgeons & units, anaesthetists and ENT Ward 11B to ensure that patients receive appropriate intervention and treatment and ensure the admission process is seamless.

Working for our organisation

At East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now. 

We run the following hospitals: 

The Lister Hospital, Stevenage 

New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City 

Hertford County, Hertford 

Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood 

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients.  We continue to undergo significant transformation, and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda. 

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees.  This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen. 

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.  

Person specification

Qualifications / Training

Essential criteria
  • NMC registration
  • Demonstrate evidence of Continuing Professional Development (CPD), Presentation skills
Desirable criteria
  • Possess a teaching qualification
  • Evidence of post graduate study
  • Ability to undertake audits and implement change. IT skills
  • Understanding of ENT head and neck related conditions
  • Relevant extended role and qualifications e.g. ears, nose and throat, head and neck course, pre-operative assessment course

Previous Experience

Essential criteria
  • Ability to lead and manage change
Desirable criteria
  • Previous involvement in the development, implementation and audit of clinical guidelines and standards
  • Experience in monitoring, assessing and coaching
  • Advanced knowledge on treatments and interventions within ears, nose and throat conditions

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Able to provide and receive highly complex or sensitive information
  • Understands the importance of team working
  • Ability to manage own work without supervision
  • Risk assessments
  • Counselling skills
Desirable criteria
  • Effective leadership and assertiveness skills
  • Demonstrates sound application of theory and evidence of practice
  • The ability to challenge practice
  • Advance communication skills course
  • Research Skills
  • Experience of autonomous working

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Enthusiasm, motivation, reliability and flexibility
  • Committed to high professional standards
Desirable criteria
  • Knowledge of the ears, nose and throat conditions
  • Able to motivate others

Employer certification / accreditation badges

NHS Pastoral Care Quality AwardNHS Employers Diversity and Inclusion PartnersVeteran AwareApprenticeships logoNo smoking policyDisability confident employerStep into healthHappy to Talk Flexible WorkingDefence Employer Recognition Scheme (ERS) - Gold

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Julius Dayoc
Job title
ENT Nurse Specialist Lead
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01438314123
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