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Main area
Nutrition
Grade
Band 7
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 18.75 hours per week
Job ref
164-6999244
Employer
Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Nottingham University Hospitals
Town
Nottingham
Salary
£46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
Today at 23:59

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Nutrition Nurse Specialist

Band 7

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Nutrition Nurse Specialist to join our existing multi-professional team as the lead Clinical Nutrition Nurse Specialist. You will work within this team to lead & co-ordinate nutrition support across the trust, managing complex inpatients. You will work alongside the Home Enteral Feeding Team providing support, advice and education to patients/ significant others in the management of their care in preparation for discharge with enteral feeding.

Main duties of the job

As a Nutrition Nurse Specialist, you will be involved in the management of patients requiring enteral and parenteral nutrition. You will work with our existing Nurse Specialist and Dietetic teams to facilitate a high-quality nutrition service trust wide.

The post holder will be a key member of the Nutrition multi-disciplinary team and will make a valuable contribution to the strategic direction of nutritional care across the trust.  You will be experienced in the management and insertion of a range of enteral feeding tubes and devices. You will lead and facilitate compliance with local, national policy and guidelines and innovate nursing practice within nutrition support. You will support the clinical governance agenda and support best practice across the trust, being a vital element of this role.

You will need to possess excellent communication skills, strong leadership skills, have experience in change management and require advanced clinical judgement skills and a knowledge of artificial nutrition. You will need the ability to competently and confidently influence others in the provision of high standards of care for our patients and their families.

As Clinical Nutrition Nurse Specialist your role will be to support the wider MDT members and provide support, advice, formal and informal education, contribute and participate in core clinical guidelines relating to nutrition support. You will also need to be committed to your own personal development.

Working for our organisation

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career! 

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please review the job description and person specification. If you feel you meet the requirements and would like to be part of a dynamic and patient-focused team, this could be the ideal job for you.

Person specification

Training & Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • Current 1st level NMC registration
  • BSc in health care
Desirable criteria
  • MSC in Health Care studies
  • Non-Medical Prescriber
  • Communication Course
  • Counselling Course (Band 7)

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Experience in caring for patients with complex nutritional needs
  • • Can assess complex nutrition patients, interpret the information and take the lead on decision making
  • • Extensive experience caring for patients with a range of enteral feeding devices
  • • Competence in the insertion of enteral feeding devices including the insertion of Bridles
  • • Experience with development of nutritional knowledge and clinical practice within an organisation via teaching and training of enteral and parenteral feeding and routes
Desirable criteria
  • • Experience managing resources to ensure effective and efficient use of budgets
  • • Experience managing a nurse led clinic
  • • Experience of teaching as a specialist lecturer at higher educational institutes Experience caring for patients with parenteral nutrition

Communication

Essential criteria
  • Able to present and receive complex information within the multi professional team
  • Able to convey sensitive information in an empathic manner to staff and patients / clients
  • Demonstrate negotiation and influencing skills
  • Can produce timely, accurate written / electronic records and documents

Analytical and Judgement skills

Essential criteria
  • Ability to respond to, prioritise and analyse complex problems/situations and ensure effective interventions are put in place
  • Ability to generate and present reports and documents
  • Able to independently assess and interpret signs and symptoms and to take appropriate action
  • Deal effectively with clinical issues within defined procedures/guidelines
  • Demonstrate insight in the use of data to influence patient care and services
Desirable criteria
  • Demonstrate a knowledge of current issues related to NHS strategy and policy
  • Use of clinical benchmarking to influence patient care (Essence of Nursing)
  • Evidence of data collection and analysis

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Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Jo Manogue
Job title
Matron
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
07976190050
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