Specialist Nurse Nutrition Support Team, Band 7

Job overview

Specialist Nurse Nutrition Support Team - Band 7 (15 hours a week)

We are delighted to recruit a part-time Specialist Nurse into the Nutrition Support Team. This role gives you the opportunity to utilise and further develop your existing skills and experience.

Additional working pattern details: 15hrs over 3 days including a Wednesday

Additional Contacts:

Sarah Price, Specialist NST Dietitian [email protected]

Zein Zakir, NST pharmacist [email protected]

The proposed interview date is: 21st January

Main duties of the job

You will work as part of the multidisciplinary Nutrition Support Team (NST) to ensure that adults who require parenteral nutrition in our acute hospitals receive high quality, safe and effective care. This role involves patient assessment, clinical reasoning, clinical management planning and prescribing.

You will take part in NST ward rounds and weekly MDT meetings contributing to the clinical assessment and management of our patients.

You will ensure safe central venous catheter management which will include supporting the ward nursing teams

This is a permanent, part time job, working 15 hours per week, ideally over 3 week days. We have a flexible working policy in our Trust. You will be expected to work at both Cheltenham General and Gloucester Royal Hospitals and participate in our weekly multidisciplinary meeting, held each Wednesday.

This job involves travel between our two acute hospital sites and a free hospital shuttle bus is provided

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This Band 7 Nutrition Support Specialist Nurse position is a role for an approachable, enthusiastic and motivated nurse who has an interest in parenteral nutrition, experience of central venous catheters, with recent, relevant advanced practice or clinical specialist experience. We are looking for someone who has worked, or is working, in a nursing role in which clinical assessment, diagnosing and planning treatment are a core responsibility. This job would suit an experienced advanced practice or specialist level nurse who is keen to transfer their existing skills into a new, challenging role.  Having advanced practice study modules at Master’s level is a requirements for this role. Being an independent, non-medical prescriber is desirable.

Applicants should be enthusiastic and motivated, have a passion for patient safety and quality improvement and a desire to further develop their nursing practice.