1. Job Purpose
The Endoscopy Nurse/ODP provides safe, high-quality, patient-centred care across the full endoscopy patient pathway — admissions and pre-assessment, the procedure room (both direct patient care and technical assisting), recovery, discharge, decontamination and water-quality compliance. All postholders are expected to meet the core (Tier 1) performance standards set out in this job description as a condition of the role.
General Responsibilities
- Work at all times within the NMC Code of Conduct (Registered Nurses) or the HCPC Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics (Operating Department Practitioners), and within LivingCare policies, procedures and clinical guidelines.
- Maintain patient confidentiality and comply with data protection and information governance requirements.
- Promote and safeguard the welfare of children and vulnerable adults in accordance with safeguarding policy.
- Comply with health and safety, infection prevention and control, and risk-management policies at all times.
- Participate in appraisal, statutory/mandatory training and continuing professional development.
- Promote equality, diversity and inclusion, treating patients, visitors and colleagues with dignity and respect.
- Undertake any other duties reasonably requested that are commensurate with the grade and nature of the post.
- As a company who supports equality and diversity, LivingCare encourage applications from all candidates regardless of their age, gender including reassigned gender, relationship status, maternity, disability, race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation
Section 2
- Admissions / Pre-Assessment: Undertakes pre-procedure assessment: health history, consent verification, fasting/bowel-prep check, allergy and risk screening, and baseline observations. Identifies and escalates contraindications before the list proceeds. Completes accurate and timely documentation within the patient electronic record (EPR), at the time of consultation.
- Procedure Room — Patient Care (Theatre, patient-focused): Provides patient-focused care throughout the procedure: continuous monitoring of vital signs and oxygen saturation, sedation support/titration in line with Patient Group Directions, and maintaining patient comfort, dignity and reassurance. Recognises and responds to deterioration or over-sedation. Completes accurate and timely documentation within the patient electronic record (EPR). Takes overall responsibility for actions taken by the Healthcare Assistant. Ensures appropriate handling of specimens, ensuring the correct processes are followed.
- Procedure Room — Endoscopy Assisting (technical / scope-side): Assists the endoscopist directly: passing accessories, supporting biopsy/polypectomy, correct specimen handling and labelling, scope handling, and troubleshooting routine equipment faults. Assists confidently with emergency treatment. Ensures safe application of the equipment, whether by personal use or that by the HCA.
- Recovery: Delivers safe post-procedure recovery care: monitors airway, vital signs, sedation reversal and pain; identifies and escalates complications such as bleeding or over-sedation. Completes accurate and timely documentation within the patient electronic record (EPR).
- Discharge: Applies locally agreed discharge criteria (e.g. a validated recovery/discharge score) before any patient leaves the department, and gives clear verbal and written aftercare/safety-netting advice, confirming safe escort arrangements.
- Decontamination: Operates washer-disinfectors/automated endoscope reprocessors and manual cleaning processes correctly. Maintains full scope-to-patient traceability and correctly identifies and quarantines faulty or contaminated equipment.
- Water Sampling & Water Quality Compliance: Undertakes routine water sampling in line with the unit's water testing protocol and schedule, recording and reporting results accurately and on time.
- General: Completes accurate and timely documentation within the patient electronic record (EPR). Undertakes audits. Participates in the investigation of clinical events, ensuring an accurate recollection of events is provided.
Section 3
- Patient Assessment: Completes and documents pre-procedure assessment (consent, fasting, allergies, risk screening) for every allocated patient. | 100% compliance, quarterly audit
- Patient Safety: Completes and documents a safety WHO checklist for every procedure commenced. | 100% compliance, quarterly audit
- Patient Experience: Records a comfort/pain score for every sedated or unsedated procedure and escalates/documents any moderate or severe discomfort. Documents actions taken to resolve discomfort. | 100% compliance, quarterly audit
- Infection Prevention: Maintains full decontamination and scope-traceability documentation with no avoidable breaches. | 100% compliance, annual IHEEM audit
- Recovery & Discharge: Completes post-procedure observations and applies discharge criteria before any patient leaves the department. | 100% compliance, quarterly audit
- Record Keeping: Completes procedure documentation and endoscopy reporting system entries accurately, at the time of event. | 100% compliance, quarterly audit
- Professional Standards: Maintains professional registration/revalidation, 100% compliance with mandatory training and JETS competency Level 1 completion within 1 year of employment. | 100% compliance, quarterly audit
- Incident Reporting: Reports patient safety incidents, near misses and equipment faults via the local incident system. | 100% compliance, quarterly audit
Section 4
- Registration & Education: Current professional registration — NMC (Registered General Nurse) or HCPC (Operating Department Practitioner) as applicable. Evidence of ongoing continuing professional development. JAG ENDO1 course attendance. eLearning for Health Endo1 core modules completion. Working towards JETS Level 1 competency, to be completed within 1 year of appointment (per Tier 1 KPI). | JETS Level 1 completed and working towards Level 2 completion. Mentorship, preceptorship or teaching qualification &/or experience.
- Experience: Post-registration clinical experience, including cannulation and basic life support competency. | Significant experience within an endoscopy or procedural/theatre setting across admissions, procedure-room, recovery and decontamination areas. Experience of taking charge of a clinical area.
- Clinical Skills: Demonstrated core competencies across patient assessment, safety-checklist use, sedation-safety monitoring, recovery and discharge, and basic decontamination principles. | Demonstrated competence across all rotational areas in Section 3, including list support and decontamination/water-sampling responsibility.
- Leadership & Management: Ability to work under pressure and support colleagues during busy or short-staffed periods. | Evidence of successfully taking charge, staff supervision/rostering, deputising for senior staff, or leading a workstream (audit, stock, education).
- Audit & Quality: Understanding of clinical governance, incident reporting and audit principles. | Evidence of leading or co-leading a clinical audit and delivering resulting improvements.
- Communication & Teamwork: Strong verbal and written communication skills; effective multidisciplinary team working. | Experience delivering feedback, teaching or formal presentations to colleagues.
About us:
LivingCare Group operates across various health services and portfolios. We have extensive experience of developing and delivering NHS care and have a growing portfolio of private provision. We work across GP practices and within our own centres in Yorkshire.
Our services are developed in response to local demands across the health economy and in line with the NHS governance and contractual requirements.
Why Choose us?
Our continuing success as a business is down to the talent, hard work and dedication of our staff. Along with great job satisfaction, you can look forward to a competitive salary, opportunities to grow, a pension scheme and great employee benefits.
We fully believe in investing in our staff to help them reach their career goals and full potential. We offer all staff the chance to further their education with free training courses in any field that will both benefit themselves and the company.
Here at LivingCare we are an equal opportunities employer with a strong commitment to the health and wellbeing of all our colleagues.
We are also proud to be a Disability Confident Committed Employer (Level 1).
Find out more about Disability Confident at: www.gov.uk/disability-confident #DisabilityConfident
What we offer our employees:
- Free onsite parking.
- Quality working environment
- Flexible working
- Day off for your birthday
- Work life balance is a priority here at LivingCare, with services running at sociable times.
- Blue Light Card NHS discount at a range of shops and restaurants
- Access to the Employee Assistance Programme
- Annual pay review
- Culture matrix programme: we organise special events every month to support our teams
- Celebrating success: this programme gives rewards to our team member who have gone above and beyond
- Supermarket vouchers: we give these out every month as part of our supermarket sweep competition
LivingCare Behaviours and Values:
Living Care has a set of core values which we expect all staff to demonstrate. Building on these we have developed a set of expectations that we expect all team members to demonstrate.
- Managing yourself and others:
- Take care of your own wellbeing and that of your staff
- Manage yourself and your emotions
- Share your knowledge and experience
- Use appropriate language when communicating to others to ensure they understand
- Be decisive
- Be positive – focus on what you can do and why something will/could work
- Actively seek feedback and act on it (where appropriate)
- Know when to step in and do it yourself and when to leave others to have a go
- Be self aware: know your strengths and development needs and look for ways to develop
- Be visible
As a company who supports equality and diversity, LivingCare encourage applications from all candidates regardless of their age, gender including reassigned gender, relationship status, maternity, disability, race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex, or sexual orientation.
