Clinical Nurse Specialist - Nutrition Support

Job overview

Barts Health is the largest trust in the NHS and one of the leading healthcare providers in the country. The trust’s hospitals deliver high quality compassionate care to the 2.5 million people of east London and beyond.

Barts Health NHS Trust: Barts Health’s vision is to become a healthcare organisation that offers urgent specialist and community services tailored to meet the needs of local communities. We are committed to recruiting staff that will help us meet our vision for changing lives and demonstrate behaviours we believe make Barts Health a great place for patients, their families, and friends, the public and staff. Our Barts Health Values which align with our behaviours are:

• Caring & compassionate with patients, each other, and our partners • Actively listening, understanding and responding to patients, staff and our partners • Relentlessly improving and innovating for patient safety • Achieving ambitious results by working together • Valuing every member of staff and their contribution to the care of our patients

Main duties of the job

The post holder will act as one of the Nutrition Specialist Nurse for patients within Barts Health NHS Trust and will share responsibility for the initiation and development of services with medical staff.  She/he will participate in assessing, planning, implementing, and evaluating the Nutrition service, and be active in the development of protocols, guidelines, policies, integrated care pathways, clinical research trials and audit tools. Whilst holding a clinical caseload for in-patients and out patients, they will work closely with  colleagues to offer support/advice for the clinical management of patients within the hospital setting, outpatient clinics and via the telephone. The post holder is accountable for developing and facilitating the provision of enteral and parenteral nutrition across the Trust and to oversee and participate in the nurse management of patients receiving artificial nutritional support. To develop, implement and evaluate a seamless nutrition support service that is aimed at continuously improving standards of patient care, and facilitate multi professional working. This will be achieved through clinical practice, management, education, research and audit and professional activities, taking into account corporate and divisional objectives and within the governance framework.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.