Nutrition Nurse Specialist
Posted 45 minutes 40 seconds ago by Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Permanent
Full Time
Other
Bedfordshire, Luton, United Kingdom, LU1 1
Job Description
An exciting opportunity has opened for a Band 7 Nutrition Nurse Specialist at Bedford Hospital. The Nutrition Nurse Specialist (Adult) is an advanced autonomous practitioner providing expert clinical leadership in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for adult patients requiring enteral and parenteral nutrition across Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
Band 6 Development Post considered for candidates meeting agreed progression criteria
Main duties of the job The post holder will act as the Trust's specialist resource for adult nutritional support, delivering expert clinical care, leading service development, providing education and training, and supporting governance, audit and quality improvement initiatives. Working as a key member of the multidisciplinary Nutrition Support Team, the post holder will work collaboratively with consultants, dietitians, pharmacists, speech and language therapists, community teams and regional specialist centres to ensure safe, evidence-based nutritional care throughout the patient pathway.
The role supports patients across a wide range of specialties including gastroenterology, stroke, head and neck cancer, critical care, surgery and complex medical services. The post holder will provide specialist advice regarding malnutrition, enteral feeding, parenteral nutrition and intestinal failure, ensuring patients receive timely, safe and effective nutritional support.
The post holder will manage a specialist caseload, undertake nurse-led clinics and multidisciplinary ward rounds, accept and make referrals autonomously, and contribute to the development of innovative services. This includes developing an enhanced role in the care of patients with eating disorders and, following appropriate training and competency assessment, contributing to the development of a nurse-led coeliac disease service.
Working for our organisation Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job
Detailed job description and main responsibilities The Nutrition Nurse Specialist (Adult) is an advanced autonomous practitioner providing expert clinical leadership in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for adult patients requiring enteral and parenteral nutrition across Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will act as the Trust's specialist resource for adult nutritional support, delivering expert clinical care, leading service development, providing education and training, and supporting governance, audit and quality improvement initiatives.
The role supports patients across a wide range of specialties including gastroenterology, stroke, head and neck cancer, critical care, surgery and complex medical services. The post holder will provide specialist advice regarding malnutrition, enteral feeding, parenteral nutrition and intestinal failure, ensuring patients receive timely, safe and effective nutritional support.
The post holder will manage a specialist caseload, undertake nurse-led clinics and multidisciplinary ward rounds, accept and make referrals autonomously, and contribute to the development of innovative services. This includes developing an enhanced role in the care of patients with eating disorders and, following appropriate training and competency assessment, contributing to the development of a nurse-led coeliac disease service.
The Nutrition Nurse Specialist will work closely with the regional Intestinal Failure Centre in Cambridge, supporting referrals, repatriation of patients and ongoing shared management for patients requiring complex intestinal failure and parenteral nutrition services.
The post holder will play a key role in supporting the Trust's stroke, head and neck cancer, intensive care and surgical pathways by providing specialist nutritional assessment, intervention and discharge planning for patients requiring artificial nutritional support.
The post holder will lead on the assessment and timely replacement of enteral feeding tubes in accordance with national guidance and Trust policies.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :
Clinical Practice
Act as the Trust's expert practitioner for adult enteral and parenteral nutrition.
Independently assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist nutritional care for adults requiring artificial nutritional support.
Lead nurse-led nutrition clinics and participate in multidisciplinary nutrition ward rounds.
Provide expert advice regarding enteral feeding, parenteral nutrition, intestinal failure and malnutrition.
Assess suitability for long-term enteral feeding including gastrostomy and jejunostomy placement.
Assess patients requiring parenteral nutrition and contribute to safe management of central venous access devices.
Support prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infections in collaboration with Infection Prevention and Control and Critical Care teams.
Insert and replace feeding tubes within agreed competencies and manage complex enteral access complications.
Assist with PEG and nasogastric tube placement where appropriate.
Assess and review patients requiring replacement feeding tubes, ensuring timely intervention in accordance with Trust policy and national guidance.
Deliver specialist nutritional support to patients within gastroenterology, stroke, head and neck cancer, critical care, surgical and medical specialties.
Develop expertise in supporting patients with eating disorders.
Following appropriate training, contribute to the delivery of a nurse-led coeliac disease service.
Support discharge planning for patients requiring home enteral or parenteral nutrition.
Provide follow-up for patients receiving home enteral feeding and liaise with homecare providers and community teams.
Accept referrals and make onward referrals autonomously .
Act as a qualified non-medical nurse prescriber within the scope of professional competence, Trust policy and prescribing authority, prescribing appropriate medicines, nutritional products and other treatments as clinically indicated.
Request, review and interpret appropriate diagnostic investigations, including blood tests and other relevant investigations, within the scope of the role and professional competence, taking appropriate clinical action and escalating abnormal or concerning results when required.
Use clinical assessment, investigation results and specialist knowledge to inform diagnosis, treatment planning, monitoring and evaluation of patients receiving nutritional support.
Maintain appropriate prescribing and diagnostic competencies and undertake relevant continuing professional development to ensure safe, evidence-based practice.
LEADERSHIP AND MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Provide professional leadership for nutrition nursing throughout the Trust.
Lead the development, implementation and review of nutrition-related policies, guidelines and clinical pathways.
Coordinate multidisciplinary care for patients requiring enteral and parenteral nutrition.
Work collaboratively with the regional Intestinal Failure Centre in Cambridge to ensure seamless patient care.
Lead quality improvement initiatives, service evaluation and clinical audit.
Produce annual activity and quality reports.
Contribute to business planning and future development of Nutrition Support Services.
Evaluate specialist nutrition products and equipment and support procurement decisions.
Investigate incidents, complaints and Serious Incidents relating to nutritional support and implement learning.
Promote patient safety through robust governance and risk management.
LINE MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
Provide effective line management and professional leadership to designated nursing and support staff within the Nutrition Support Service.
Undertake responsibility for the recruitment, induction, performance management, appraisal and development of staff within the service, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
Provide regular supervision, support and feedback to line-managed staff, promoting professional development . click apply for full job details
Band 6 Development Post considered for candidates meeting agreed progression criteria
Main duties of the job The post holder will act as the Trust's specialist resource for adult nutritional support, delivering expert clinical care, leading service development, providing education and training, and supporting governance, audit and quality improvement initiatives. Working as a key member of the multidisciplinary Nutrition Support Team, the post holder will work collaboratively with consultants, dietitians, pharmacists, speech and language therapists, community teams and regional specialist centres to ensure safe, evidence-based nutritional care throughout the patient pathway.
The role supports patients across a wide range of specialties including gastroenterology, stroke, head and neck cancer, critical care, surgery and complex medical services. The post holder will provide specialist advice regarding malnutrition, enteral feeding, parenteral nutrition and intestinal failure, ensuring patients receive timely, safe and effective nutritional support.
The post holder will manage a specialist caseload, undertake nurse-led clinics and multidisciplinary ward rounds, accept and make referrals autonomously, and contribute to the development of innovative services. This includes developing an enhanced role in the care of patients with eating disorders and, following appropriate training and competency assessment, contributing to the development of a nurse-led coeliac disease service.
Working for our organisation Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.
Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job
Detailed job description and main responsibilities The Nutrition Nurse Specialist (Adult) is an advanced autonomous practitioner providing expert clinical leadership in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care for adult patients requiring enteral and parenteral nutrition across Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
The post holder will act as the Trust's specialist resource for adult nutritional support, delivering expert clinical care, leading service development, providing education and training, and supporting governance, audit and quality improvement initiatives.
The role supports patients across a wide range of specialties including gastroenterology, stroke, head and neck cancer, critical care, surgery and complex medical services. The post holder will provide specialist advice regarding malnutrition, enteral feeding, parenteral nutrition and intestinal failure, ensuring patients receive timely, safe and effective nutritional support.
The post holder will manage a specialist caseload, undertake nurse-led clinics and multidisciplinary ward rounds, accept and make referrals autonomously, and contribute to the development of innovative services. This includes developing an enhanced role in the care of patients with eating disorders and, following appropriate training and competency assessment, contributing to the development of a nurse-led coeliac disease service.
The Nutrition Nurse Specialist will work closely with the regional Intestinal Failure Centre in Cambridge, supporting referrals, repatriation of patients and ongoing shared management for patients requiring complex intestinal failure and parenteral nutrition services.
The post holder will play a key role in supporting the Trust's stroke, head and neck cancer, intensive care and surgical pathways by providing specialist nutritional assessment, intervention and discharge planning for patients requiring artificial nutritional support.
The post holder will lead on the assessment and timely replacement of enteral feeding tubes in accordance with national guidance and Trust policies.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES :
Clinical Practice
Act as the Trust's expert practitioner for adult enteral and parenteral nutrition.
Independently assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist nutritional care for adults requiring artificial nutritional support.
Lead nurse-led nutrition clinics and participate in multidisciplinary nutrition ward rounds.
Provide expert advice regarding enteral feeding, parenteral nutrition, intestinal failure and malnutrition.
Assess suitability for long-term enteral feeding including gastrostomy and jejunostomy placement.
Assess patients requiring parenteral nutrition and contribute to safe management of central venous access devices.
Support prevention of catheter-related bloodstream infections in collaboration with Infection Prevention and Control and Critical Care teams.
Insert and replace feeding tubes within agreed competencies and manage complex enteral access complications.
Assist with PEG and nasogastric tube placement where appropriate.
Assess and review patients requiring replacement feeding tubes, ensuring timely intervention in accordance with Trust policy and national guidance.
Deliver specialist nutritional support to patients within gastroenterology, stroke, head and neck cancer, critical care, surgical and medical specialties.
Develop expertise in supporting patients with eating disorders.
Following appropriate training, contribute to the delivery of a nurse-led coeliac disease service.
Support discharge planning for patients requiring home enteral or parenteral nutrition.
Provide follow-up for patients receiving home enteral feeding and liaise with homecare providers and community teams.
Accept referrals and make onward referrals autonomously .
Act as a qualified non-medical nurse prescriber within the scope of professional competence, Trust policy and prescribing authority, prescribing appropriate medicines, nutritional products and other treatments as clinically indicated.
Request, review and interpret appropriate diagnostic investigations, including blood tests and other relevant investigations, within the scope of the role and professional competence, taking appropriate clinical action and escalating abnormal or concerning results when required.
Use clinical assessment, investigation results and specialist knowledge to inform diagnosis, treatment planning, monitoring and evaluation of patients receiving nutritional support.
Maintain appropriate prescribing and diagnostic competencies and undertake relevant continuing professional development to ensure safe, evidence-based practice.
LEADERSHIP AND MANAGERIAL RESPONSIBILITIES:
Provide professional leadership for nutrition nursing throughout the Trust.
Lead the development, implementation and review of nutrition-related policies, guidelines and clinical pathways.
Coordinate multidisciplinary care for patients requiring enteral and parenteral nutrition.
Work collaboratively with the regional Intestinal Failure Centre in Cambridge to ensure seamless patient care.
Lead quality improvement initiatives, service evaluation and clinical audit.
Produce annual activity and quality reports.
Contribute to business planning and future development of Nutrition Support Services.
Evaluate specialist nutrition products and equipment and support procurement decisions.
Investigate incidents, complaints and Serious Incidents relating to nutritional support and implement learning.
Promote patient safety through robust governance and risk management.
LINE MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES
Provide effective line management and professional leadership to designated nursing and support staff within the Nutrition Support Service.
Undertake responsibility for the recruitment, induction, performance management, appraisal and development of staff within the service, in accordance with Trust policies and procedures.
Provide regular supervision, support and feedback to line-managed staff, promoting professional development . click apply for full job details