Main area Nutrition / Gastroenterology
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week (May be asked to provide out of hours cover and weekend working on a rota)
Job ref: 361-6928720
Site: Lister Hospital
Town: Stevenage
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 12/03/2025
Here at East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust,
Our mission is: Providing high-quality, compassionate care for our communities
Our vision to 2030 is: To be trusted to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service
Job overview
We are recruiting for a Nutrition Clinical Nurse Specialist who shares our vision to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
This post is designed to perform a key role in the delivery of a high-quality patient nutrition service based at Lister Hospital.
You will be an integral member of the team and will have a key role in overseeing the strategy and implementation of best nutritional care for the patients within the Trust.
Clinically this post is integrated with the nutrition team consisting of a consultant gastroenterologist, dietician and the nutrition clinical nurse specialist. The service aims to identify patients with nutritional problems, in particular those who need enteral or parenteral feeding support.
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.
Main duties of the job
1. Provision of care through screening programmes, nurse-led clinics, accepting referrals, undertaking diagnostic procedures, undertaking therapeutic procedures, physical assessments and obtaining written consent to treatment.
2. Carrying a caseload, and responsibility for the management of complex cases.
3. Be a clinical expert in assessment of nutritional needs and delivery of treatment.
4. Coordinate the Nutrition Support Team (NST) with nursing care in general.
5. Develop safe and practical nursing techniques with respect to nutrition policy.
6. Provide advanced technical skills in relation to NG/NJ feeding and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG); liaising with services for radiologically inserted gastrostomy (RIG) and peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC).
7. Advise on nutrition support policy and coordinate strategy including issues regarding risk management and ethical decision making.
8. To provide clinical advice to all staff within the multidisciplinary team.
9. To maintain accurate and comprehensive patient records, and report on all procedures, ensuring that copies are received by referring clinicians and GP’s.
10. Act as a patient advocate and care manager for nutrition support patients.
11. Advise and assist in procurement of equipment.
Working for our organisation
At East and North Hertfordshire 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
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role.
Person specification
Qualifications / Training
* First level degree or equivalent experience / knowledge or willingness to undertake.
* Evidence of continuous professional development.
* Teaching or mentoring qualification.
* Post registration qualification in specialty or willingness to complete.
* Advanced Clinical assessment or willingness to undertake.
* Advanced communication course /or willingness to be trained.
Experience
* Relevant experience in Nutrition / Gastroenterology and ability to demonstrate expert nursing skills.
* Evidence of mentorship/preceptorship roles.
* Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team.
* Accept personal accountability for own practice.
* Experience of formal/informal teaching.
* Understanding of evidence based practice.
* Experience of Clinical Governance.
* Understanding and knowledge of specialist field some knowledge of Nutrition or Gastroenterology.
Skills
* Capable of working as an integral member of a small team.
* Flexible and adaptable to changing situations due to both workload and colleagues needs.
* Ability to undertake teaching of staff and patients.
* Ability to work unsupervised and manage own workload.
* Effective time management.
* Effective interpersonal skills.
* Commitment to multidisciplinary working.
Knowledge
* Knowledge of Nutrition and management of nutrition issues.
* Knowledge of upper GI disease and care related to symptom management / treatment.
* Standard setting and audit.
* Understanding of patient pathway and how to support patients through it.
* Health promotion.
* Understanding of resource management.
* Understanding of clinical governance.
Our values
We want our staff to believe in, demonstrate and live our values in everything we do.
Include
We value the diversity and experience of our community colleagues and partners, creating relationships and climates that provide an opportunity to share, collaborate and grow together.
Respect
We create a safe environment where we are curious of the lived experience of others, seek out best practice and are open to listening and hearing new ideas.
Improve
We are committed to consistently delivering excellent services and continuously looking to improve through a creative workforce that feels empowered to act in service of our shared purpose.
Committed to our Community
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion for all job applicants, staff, patients and the wider community. We want to create a workforce which represents the communities we serve. We are on a journey to become a more inclusive organisation and we welcome applications from everyone regardless of their background. In particular we encourage applications from candidates with disabilities, and candidates from Black, Asian and Minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds who are currently under-represented in various parts of our workforce.
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to support flexible working for our staff wherever possible and all our employees are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working.
We are proud to be a Disability Confident employer and achieved our status in 2019.
We will remove barriers that prospective candidates might face at any stage of our recruitment process. If you have a disability and would like the advert in an alternative format, or would like to talk about how we can adjust the interview process to best support you, please contact us by emailing resourcing.enh-tr@nhs.net
We are also proud to support our UK armed forces by supporting Reservists, Cadet Instructors, Veterans and military spouses/partners into employment and offering supportive policies that value their contribution to the community and to our Trust.
We are committed to being a carer-friendly environment, addressing the complex needs of families with caring responsibilities. In partnership with Carers in Hertfordshire, all our working carers have access to support from recruitment. We are also a member of Carers UK, providing resources to make balancing work and caring easier. Our approach is inclusive, recognizing diverse challenges and creating a supportive environment where carers feel valued.
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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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