Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist in Nutrition

Integrated Care System; Halifax; On-site; GBP 47,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist in Nutrition to lead nutritional care and manage complex patient cases. This influential role involves developing standards, participating in policy writing, and representing the organization in key meetings, ensuring patients receive high-quality nutritional support.

Qualifications

• 求经验在相关领域后注册，具备营养学专业的知识。
• 需持有注册护士（RN/RSCN）的证书，要求先进的沟通与人际交往能力。
• 具备帮助患者营养治疗的知识和专业能力。

Responsibilities

• 发展护理标准和管理自我责任以支持患者的营养需求。
• 参与营养政策制定和培训项目，与多学科团队协作，确保患者获得适当的营养支持。
• 参与质量和服务改善项目，优化患者流动和医疗安全。

Skills

Specialty knowledge and experience

Leadership

Advanced communication skills

Education

RN/RSCN Diploma or Degree

Relevant specialty related qualification/module

Non-Medical prescribing or working towards

Trained in Advanced Life support

Job description

Go back Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist in Nutrition

The closing date is 13 July 2025

This post is to support patients who require enteral/parenteral nutrition, their relatives and carers from diagnosis throughout their journey across the acute setting. The post holder will act as a key Worker and a specialist resource of current clinical information addressing the specific needs of individual patients through direct/indirect interventions.

Main duties of the job

o To lead on the development of nursing standards for nutritional care.

o To effectively manage own caseload, co-ordinating the care and treatment of patients receiving nutritional support (both enteral and parenteral) in the acute setting

o Working within the multidisciplinary team to ensure that patients who require enteral and parenteral nutritional support receive the highest standards of care.

o Attending weekly MDT clinics for patients who require enteral and parenteral nutrition

o Assess patients requiring long term enteral tube feeding for inpatients

o Facilitate insertions of complex nasogastric tubes, nasojejunal tubes, nasal bridles and PEG tubes where needed.

o Contribute and participate in core clinical policies relating to nutritional support

About us

We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS - yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff and the local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will possess a critical understanding of detailed theoretical and practical knowledge in nutrition. As well as being a clinical lead for nutritional treatment you will be involved in nutrition policy writing and audit, development, and delivery of nutrition training programmes, represent at the nutrition and hydration steering groups and lead on quality and service improvement projects, working towards optimising patient flow, safety and nutrition care standards for all patients. You will need to demonstrate a high level of professionalism and knowledge demanded by this grade, have several years post registration and demonstrate leadership, advanced communication skills and engagement in leading change.

Person Specification

QUALIFICATIONS AND TRAINING

• RN/RSCN Diploma or Degree
• NMC Registered
• Relevant specialty related qualification/module
• Non-Medical prescribing or working towards
• Trained in Advanced Life support

KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE

• Speciality knowledge and experience
• Basic knowledge of financial management within the clinical setting
• Knowledge of professional and NHS issues and an understanding of corporate objectives
• Relevant post registration clinical experience
• Initiation an implementation of change

COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)

• Able to manage own workload and co-ordinate that of others
• Basic IT skills in word processing/EXCEL and hospital systems
• Able to present written information in a logical manner
• Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients of varying levels of understanding
• Ability to communicate sensitive information
• Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues at all levels of the organisation
• Presentation and teaching skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

£47,810 to £54,710 a yearper annum, pro rata