Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist in Nutrition
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Working Part time - 30 hours per week
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 Countess of Chester Hospital covering the acute and community setting. 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, speech and language therapist, 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: safe, kind and effective. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Responsibilities
* To lead on the development of nursing standards for nutritional care.
* To effectively manage own caseload, coordinating the care and treatment of patients receiving nutritional support (both enteral and parenteral) in the acute and community setting.
* Working within the multidisciplinary team to ensure that patients who require enteral and parenteral nutritional support receive the highest standards of care.
* Attending weekly MDT clinics for patients who require enteral and parenteral nutrition.
* Assess patients requiring long-term enteral tube feeding for both inpatients and outpatients.
* Facilitate insertions of complex nasogastric tubes, nasojejunal tubes, nasal bridles, and PEG tubes where needed.
* Contribute and participate in core clinical policies relating to nutritional support.
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
* The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
* Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
* Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services, and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Kirsty Capper
Job title: Team Leader
Email address: kirsty.capper@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01244 36 6581
Gemma Walton, Team Coordinator
Email: gemma.walton2@nhs.net
Seniority Level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment Type
* Part-time
Job Function
* Health Care Provider
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
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