Job requirements
Essential
9 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Significant post-qualification with recent clinical, leadership and managerial experience at minimum of band 7 AfC
- Experience
Evidence of highly developed specialist knowledge and formal training in field
- Experience
Experienced in meeting requirements of Quality Assurance Framework for the Service
- Experience
Experience in facilitation, teaching, assessing, and coaching
- Experience
Experienced in Audit Process
- Experience
Understanding and experience of challenges and solutions to meeting access targets
- Qualifications
Registered Nurse (Pt 1/12) ((RSCN (Pt 8) if appropriate)) educated to a minimum of 1st degree level, or able to demonstrate evidence that working towards
- Qualifications
ENB 998/Slice, C&G 730, or equivalent
- Qualifications
Demonstrable management experience / Leadership and/or specialist knowledge
Desirable
2 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Qualifications
Postgraduate management/further study qualification i.e. MSc or MA
- Qualifications
Advanced Assessment Skills of the patient; Non-medical prescriber; MSc Clinical Nutrition
Job overview
Band 8A Lead Nurse for Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
PLEASE NOTE: Sponsorship is not normally available for this vacancy - applicants must have the right-to-work in the UK for this role by their proposed start date.
To work with the multidisciplinary specialist nutrition team to ensure complex patients receive parenteral and enteral nutrition where indicated.
The Lead Nurse role will ensure line management of 2 enteral band 7 nurses and 1 parenteral nutrition nurse. Within the nutrition team there are 2 Gastroenterology Consultants a pharmacist and a dietician.
Main duties of the job
- Supporting approximately 60 home patients on IV fluids and Home Parenteral Nutrition including prescriptions.
- Involves liaising with commercial home care companies (x 4) for home patient reviews and service review meetings.
- Managing the enteral nursing team.
- Supporting complex nutrition patient MDT's.
- Liaising with other HPN centres (RBH is one of 22 HPN centres).
- Managing IF Database and supporting national data submissions.
- Supporting other local hospitals e.g.RSCH, Basingstoke, Frimley, with HPN remote discharges.
- Daily inpatient PN ward rounds (leading the team during Consultant absence).
- Supporting general nutrition within the hospital e.g. Nutrition Steering Committee (NSC); dietitians and MUST scoring; fluid balance, etc.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the job role.
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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This advert is for Lead Nurse for Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition with Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust in Reading, England. It is listed as a Band 8 Registered nurse role. The advertised salary is £57528.00 to £64750.00. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 27 Oct 2026.
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