IBD Clinical Nurse Specialist - Gastroenterology | East and North Hertfordshire Teaching NHS Trust

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

The role requires an enthusiastic nurse with a sound vision of nursing and a commitment to provide best patient care. Knowledge and understanding of the types Inflammatory Bowel Disease and its symptoms is ideal but not essential.

As the post holder you will be expected to provide support and advice to our large cohort of IBD patients both face to face and over the telephone.

You will work within existing team providing continuity of care in a variety of settings, focusing upon outpatient and inpatient care and liaising with primary care teams. The post holder should play a significant role in patient care, communicating within the team and wider MDT and applying best practice. The post holder will be working under the supervision of the Lead IBD CNS and Band 7 IBD Clinical Nurse Specialists

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.

Participate in the Nurse led IBD drug start-up and outcome monitoring clinics

Attend the IBD Multidisciplinary meetings

Report the Multidisciplinary clinical management of outcomes

Refer for Multidisciplinary Case Management discussions

Perform Direct Care in the infusion clinic’s

Provide IBD Patient Education

Manage IBD Telephone advice/consultations

Manage IBD email-advice/consultations

Ensure appropriate blood monitoring/treatment monitoring

Manage IBD Homecare clinical monitoring, prescription management & ICB reporting

Support Professional Activity

Professional development / CPD

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.

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

This advert closes on Friday 29 May 2026