GI Specialist Nurse Practitioner

• Conduct your own consultation hours and apply your nursing and medical expertise for patients with a chronic bowel disease.
• Build a therapeutic relationship in which the consequences for work, relationships, and daily life are also given attention.
• Work together with GI physicians and nursing colleagues on better care pathways, with a direct connection between patient care and research.

As a GI nurse practitioner, you treat and guide patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), such as Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Within your area of expertise, you fulfill an independent treatment role. You combine medical treatment with nursing guidance and help patients cope with the consequences of their disease.

During your own consultation hours, you assess physical and psychosocial complaints, monitor the progress of the treatment, and discuss with patients what they need. In doing so, you look beyond the disease alone. What does fatigue mean for a workday? What concerns are there about the treatment? Together, you search for appropriate care and guidance.

You work closely with the GI physicians, GI nurses, and colleagues involved in clinical research. You contribute your findings to treatment discussions and ensure coordination and continuity in care. Patients know who to turn to with questions about their disease and treatment.

In addition to direct patient care, you help to further develop GI care. You do this, among other things, by:

• Improving care pathways for IBD patients, so that diagnostics, treatment, and guidance align well.
• Developing and keeping protocols up to date, together with the colleagues involved.
• Sharing knowledge within the team and contributing to the promotion of expertise.
• Looking together with the research team at how patient care and clinical research can strengthen each other.

You will be working within the outpatient care of the Gastroenterology and Hepatology department of the St. Antonius Hospital. Here, you work in a small, close-knit team with GI nurses, nurse practitioners, nurse practitioner trainees, GI physicians, and administrative staff.

The department offers top-clinical care in the clinic, in the day treatment unit, and in the specialized outpatient clinic. There is also an endoscopy department. You will work at the Utrecht and Nieuwegein locations, where patient care and clinical research are closely connected.

• A salary between € 4,824 - € 7,269,- gross per month (FWG scale 65 Hospital CAO), based on 36 hours per week. We will tailor your salary to your education and work experience.
• A one-year contract for 36 hours per week, with a view to permanent employment.
• 8.33% end-of-year bonus in December and 8.33% holiday allowance.
• A pension scheme with PFZW, in which St. Antonius pays 50% of the pension premium.
• Annually 57 hours Personal Life Phase Budget for a 36-hour work week, which you can use in a way that suits your life stage.
• Tax benefits via our Flexible Benefits System. With this, you can use part of your gross salary for, for example, a bicycle, fitness and sports, study costs, extra travel expenses, or a device.
• Plenty of room to develop professionally and personally via our extensive learning platform with live training and e-learnings.
• Through Epassi, Benefits at Work, and Tickets for Good, you get access to activities, workshops, events, and cultural outings, often for only the administrative costs.

You like to take responsibility for the treatment and guidance of patients. You also make medical information understandable and discuss what a treatment means for someone's daily life. Within your own area of expertise, you make independent decisions; for questions that go further, you seek collaboration with colleagues.

At a minimum, you bring:

• A completed Master of Advanced Nursing Practice (MANP).
• A valid BIG registration as a nurse practitioner.

Nice to have

• Experience within gastroenterology and hepatology, preferably with IBD patients.
• Experience with improving care pathways, protocols, or the quality of patient care.
• Affinity with clinical scientific research and translating new insights into practice.

Are you in doubt whether you fully meet the profile? We are happy to think along with you.

At St. Antonius, you work on (highly) complex care with your heart in the right place. We are a top-clinical teaching hospital where patient care, education, and research go hand in hand. Thanks to our size, we make a real impact, but remain agile and personal.

Our clinical priorities are heart & vascular, lungs, and cancer. Additionally, we are one of the leaders in the Netherlands in the field of value-based care. This means that we do not only look at what is medically possible, but especially at what truly makes a difference for the individual patient. By structurally measuring the most important outcomes and learning together, also with the other Santeon hospitals, we make care a little bit better every day. With us, every employee, including you, makes a difference for the patient.

Do you want to use your expertise as a nurse practitioner for patients with a chronic bowel disease? We would love to meet you.

Apply no later than December 1st via the application button and upload your CV and a short motivation.

Do you have questions about the position or do you want to know more about the team first? Please contact Senna Wandy via 088-3205134