Paediatric Nutrition Nursing Assistant

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join our established Nutrition, Hepatology and Gastroenterology as a Paediatric Nutrition Nursing Assistant on a fixed

You will be joining a diverse, stimulating and excellent service, to provide specialist care to children, young people and their families affected by Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutritional conditions throughout all of Children’s Services.

As part of your role, you will be responsible for providing specialist support directed by the medical and nursing colleagues to the children, young people, families and professional colleagues, interface with all relevant professional groups and agencies within and outside the Trust to enhance the delivery of care to families affected by Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition conditions.

You will be recruited at Band 2 if you have not yet completed CUH HCSW induction which includes completion of the Care Certificate and Competencies. Once completed you will move up to Band 3. If you are currently working in a support worker role and have therefore completed these, you will be recruited as Band 3

Please note you will be required to undertake a Functional Skills Test as part of your interview assessment. You will need to pass this in order to proceed to a Conditional Offer. This is applicable if you are not currently working as a Support worker at CUH.

Main duties of the job

General day to day tasks will include helping to facilitate Home Enteral feeding discharges in Children’ services including liaising with the dietetic team, training parents, carers and patients, providing information for discharge, and setting up orders with regional teams to ensure on going supplies once patients are discharged.  Monitoring stock levels that enables the efficient and effect discharge of patients, which entails liaising with external home enteral feeding companies to manage these. Supporting the nursing team to arrange external clinical tests locally for patients within the east of England and record these when available using EPIC to ensure the continued safe management of the complex intestinal failure patients requiring home parenteral nutrition. Answering telephone calls and emails from parents and other health care professionals, and liaising with our nurses and consultants to problem solve. Supporting all aspects of the Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition services. Also when necessary helping to prepare specialist medical equipment to aid patients with diagnosis. Recording accurate data within patient’s notes on our electronic system and excel databases. Working closely with our team and the wider Multi-professional team to ensure that patient care is well planned and implemented.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached Applicant Information Pack (combined Job Description and Person Specification) for key duties and responsibilities.

• Please note:- Internal applicants on permanent contracts can apply for this post as a secondment. For secondments you must have the approval of your line manager before applying. If you are an internal applicant currently on a fixed term contract you are able to apply for this as a fixed term position. in  order to start in this role as a Band 3 there is a requirement that the National Care certificate (NCC) has been completed alongside a practical/ in -person competency booklet. Successful candidates that are unable to evidence completion of these requirements will start in the role at a Band 2 and therefore will not be eligible for sponsorship. Successful candidates that are able to provide this evidence may be permitted to commence at a Band 3. Starting salary and eligibility for sponsorship, if requested, will be considered at conditional offer.

Due to Home Office immigration rules, a full time permanent vacancy cannot be filled by individuals on a Student visa. Therefore, please be advised that if you are a Student visa holder, we will not be able to offer you a full time permanent contract unless you have: -    applied for a Graduate visa -    or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment

This vacancy will close at midnight on 19th July or once it reaches 50 applications

Interviews are due to be held on 3rd August  2026.

Benefits to you

At Cambridge University Hospitals, we want to do all we can to support good working days. We offer development opportunities and a wide range of benefits, including on-site leisure facilities, shopping concourse and day nurseries. Our good work programme currently includes providing reduced cost Stagecoach bus travel to and from Cambridge University Hospital site. Park and Ride bus journeys between Babraham Road and Trumpington sites are free, as is the route to and from Cambridge train station and our hospitals. We also subsidise the cost of parking on site for eligible staff.

On CUH campus, hot food is available 24/7 and at a reduced cost for colleagues. Recently we launched the first of our staff pod break spaces. Located in the Deakin Centre, we have a purpose-created colleague-only café, with free tea and coffee, a break space and private outside area for colleagues to rest, refuel and recharge. Just one of the ways we are working hard to support good working days at CUH.

CUH is committed to assisting employees in achieving a good work-life balance irrespective of role or personal circumstances. Flexible arrangements may include, but are not limited to, part-time working, job-share, term-time working and flexible start and finish times.

Please note if you would like to discuss the required hours of this role further, you should approach the contact given. In some cases, alternative working hours will be considered.

We welcome applications from the Armed Forces.