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 sarah.price1@nhs.net

Zein Zakir, NST pharmacist Zein.Zakir@nhs.net

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

About us

We are a small friendly, diverse, multidisciplinary team who work closely together and with teams in our Trust and tertiary specialist centres to deliver high quality, safe and effective care for our patients.

Job description

Job 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 Masters 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• Registered Nurse The registration should be active and without any restrictions on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register
• Educated to master's level or has successfully completed master's level, advanced practice modules
• Intravenous drug administration competency
• Evidence of ongoing professional development
• Have a genuine interest in parenteral nutrition/intestinal failure management with substantial relevant acute ward-based experience (or the equivalent)
• Experience of working as an autonomous practitioner using advanced clinical assessment and reasoning skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient management plans
• Experience of and confident in teaching other members of the multidisciplinary team
• Transferable knowledge of managing a relevant, clinical caseload. For example, management of acutely unwell adult patients, or currently working as a specialist/advanced practitioner in another specialty.
• Advanced communication skills: managing confrontational situations and patients, challenging poor practice
• Confident presentation skills and able to teach all grades of clinical staff in formal presentations and ward-based sessions
• Be competent in the use of all relevant Trust IT systems
• Enthusiastic with a passion for quality improvement
• Resilient & self-aware
• Reliable, adaptable and dependable
• Team focused, ability to work collaboratively and always underpinned by kindness and respect towards others
• Ability to inspire and motivate others

Desirable

• Registered Non-medical prescriber
• Evidence of Quality Improvement work
• Advanced communication skills to liaise with outside agencies such as GPs, secondary and tertiary care centres

Employer details

Employer name

Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trust wide (CGH and GRH)

Gloucestershire

GL1 3NN

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