Trainee Clinical Nurse Endoscopist | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 08 December 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 January 2026 |
| Location: | Walsall, WS2 9PS |
| Company: | Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7666614/407-MLTC-7607712 |
Summary
This role is for a Trainee Clinical Nurse Endoscopist, who already has relevant experience and knowledge within the Endoscopy department setting.
The role will be for a trainee band 7 clinical nurse Endoscopist to join the team scoping patients within the trust framework for patient safety. Upon successful completion of training and being signed off the role will increase to an 8a.
Please refer to the job description and job specification for more in-depth details and requirements.
This is a highly complex, highly specialised Clinical Endoscopist role with responsibility for the assessment of care needs for patients within the post holder’s care, diagnosing and treating disease processes identified through the endoscopy pathway. The promotion of clinical excellence in his / her practice through the implementation of research evidence-based care and NICE guidelines.
Being responsible for the day-to-day function of their own caseload, assessing, implementing and directing endoscopy cases. To include liaison with all members of the MDT, patients and their families, and in Clinical Endoscopist led endoscopy sessions.
Work autonomously as a Clinical Endoscopist once qualified to deliver a differential diagnostic GI endoscopy service including delivering life-changing diagnoses, initiating treatment, and breaking bad news. The option to develop therapeutic GI endoscopy could be discussed.
Administer local anesthetic and IV sedation to patients undergoing endoscopy in accordance with Trust policies and group protocols.
Take endoscopic biopsies and update and action histopathology reports in order to form an accurate diagnosis.
Establish safe practice in the delivery of a broad range of therapeutic endoscopic procedures
including highly complex interventions. Provide accurate endoscopy reports to enable appropriate treatment and care.
Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust is an integrated Trust and the only provider of NHS acute care in Walsall, serving a population of 284,300. It provides inpatient and outpatient services at the Manor Hospital as well as a wide range of services in the community. Walsall Manor houses the full range of district general hospital services under one roof. The £170 million development was completed in 2010, and ongoing upgrades ensure the Trust now has state-of-the-art facilities, including a Critical Care Unit, Neonatal Unit, Obstetric Theatre, and Integrated Assessment Unit. A new Urgent and Emergency Care Centre, opened in March 2023, has significantly improved emergency care facilities and capacity, providing almost 5,000 square metres of additional clinical space.
Please refer to the specific job description and job specification for more in-depth details and requirements along with how this will be tested within your application and/or interview.
Please note this is a training post starting as an AfC Band 7, later progressing to an 8a once all required competencies have been met & fully qualified.
This advert closes on Monday 22 Dec 2025