Clinical Endoscopist in Scunthorpe

As an autonomous practitioner, you will provide expert clinical care for patients undergoing upper and/or lower gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures. You will deliver safe, evidence-based endoscopic practice and contribute to high‑quality diagnostic and therapeutic outcomes. This role requires a high level of clinical expertise, decision‑making autonomy, and a commitment to maintaining exemplary standards of patient care and service delivery within the Endoscopy Units.

Main duties of the job:

• Undertake independent endoscopy lists at Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust (Scunthorpe General Hospital and Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital), and provide cross‑cover for Humber Health Partnership (Castle Hill Hospital and Hull Royal Infirmary) on occasion.
• Act as a specialist clinical resource supporting colleagues and contributing to the development of advanced practice to ensure Joint Advisory Group (JAG) accreditation standards/requirements.
• Work collaboratively within the MDT to develop, review and implement Endoscopy policies, protocols and clinical guidelines.
• Participate in audit and quality assurance processes, including complication tracking, outcomes analysis, waiting time performance, safety audits and mortality reviews.
• Promote continuous clinical improvement, ensuring practice aligns with national standards (BSG, JAG, NICE), Trust governance frameworks and patient safety priorities.
• Support education and training, role‑model and provide specialist advice to junior staff, trainees and members of the wider MDT.

You will join a team of four Clinical Endoscopists, collaborate closely with unit managers, service managers and the clinical lead to ensure a cohesive, efficient and responsive service. You will form part of the wider MDT, contributing to collaborative patient‑centred care and consistent service standards across sites.

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion. Made up of two trusts – Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) – our partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world‑class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve. Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff.

As teaching hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas – biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology. We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our partnership and our community.

Job responsibilities:

For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below. As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work‑life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide. Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees. We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work‑life balance or a multi‑role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we’ll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work‑life balance of colleagues. We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities.

As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well‑being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients. We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of peoples age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation or other personal circumstances.

To learn more about Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust, and discover the unique benefits on offer to employees, view our latest videos, plus more, please visit our recruitment website.

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.