Enteral Nutrition Practitioner

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Job summary

Join a leading NHS Trust as an Enteral Nutrition Practitioner. This role involves supporting patients with enteral nutrition, providing expert advice, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team. You will have opportunities for professional development and flexible working arrangements while contributing to high-quality patient care.

Benefits

Career Development Opportunities

Flexible Working

Health and Wellbeing Packages

Pension Schemes

Salary Sacrifice Schemes

Qualifications

• Registered AHP or Nurse with teaching experience.
• Willing to undertake advanced qualifications.
• Significant post-registration experience required.

Responsibilities

• Perform advanced clinical skills in enteral nutrition.
• Provide education and support to patients and healthcare professionals.
• Collaborate with the MDT for quality service provision.

Skills

Leadership

Organizational Skills

Critical Thinking

Communication

Education

MSc (level 7)

Registered Allied Health Professional

Teaching Qualification

Job description

Employer Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Cross Site Town Sheffield Salary £46,148 - £52,809 pa/pro rata for part time staff Salary period Yearly Closing 25/05/2025 23:59 Interview date 04/06/2025

NHS AfC: Band 7

We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.

Job overview

The enteral nutrition practitioner role is a non medical role, supporting the Enteral Nutrition Service at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHSFT.

This role will utilise a competency based training programme with the aim of developing competence across the following areas:

• Function as a non-medical practitioner, undertaking diagnostic and therapeutic procedures relating to Enteral Nutrition
• To demonstrate a high level of clinical decision-making and an ability to monitor and improve standards of care. To work within his/her own scope of professional practice
• To develop and demonstrate autonomous practice with minimal supervision
• Provide education for patients, carers and other healthcare professionals
• Contribute to provision of clinical data and service developments to improve patient outcomes

Main duties of the job

The post holder will:

• Perform advanced and specialised clinical skills in assessment, diagnosis and treatment of enteral nutrition service patients including invasive procedures within the GI tract
• Work with the Gastrointestinal MDT to support optimal service provision delivering care to patients undergoing diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. Also undertaking relevant procedures within defined protocols
• Provide expert advice, education and support to patients, relatives and other healthcare professionals within this specialist field
• Be allocated their own work stream, and working flexibly in support of optimal service provision, will regularly back fill sessions of other practitioners
• Work with the senior team to undertake and maintain National, Trust and departmental clinical audit to support quality assurance, patient safety and clinical governance
• Working in collaboration with the MDT to support the development of a high quality sustainable service. Providing a service to uphold patient safety and compliance, reducing incidence of complications and cancellation.
• Work collaboratively to support the Enteral Nutrition Team and the MDT to provide, evaluate and audit the relevant pathways in accordance with National guidelines
• Participate in training relevant clinical teams

Working for our organisation

You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals is a large NHS Foundation Trust and the second largest employer in Sheffield. You will be joining the Enteral Nutrition Team in the GRaDE care group. The Enteral Nutrition Team is a small, three person team providing enteral nutrition support for the whole Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.

When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.

AHP or registered Nurses are welcome to apply.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Registered Allied Health Professional (AHP) or Nurse (NMC) or Physician Associate (PA)
• Recognised teaching qualification or demonstrable experience of teaching and clinical supervision
• Willing to undertake Non-medical prescribing qualification and advanced physical assessment at MSc level 7
• Hold or be working towards a MSc (level 7) degree
• Advanced physical assessment qualification

Other Factors

• Ability to work under pressure
• Excellent organisational and IT skills
• Excellent leadership ability

Experience

• Demonstrable significant post registration experience in relevant clinical speciality
• Awareness of disease-related malnutrition and/or enteral feeding tubes
• Knowledge of anatomy and physiology of the GI tract
• Experience of providing high quality patient centred care
• Substantial experience of disease-related malnutrition and/or enteral feeding tubes
• Evidence of training on GI diagnostic and therapeutic intervention

Further Training

• Willing to undertake training relating to advanced nutritional procedures in a variety of settings i.e. Radiologically, endoscopically, and ward based (invasive procedures)
• Ability to critically analyse literature and evidence-based practice
• Critical thinking and reasoning skills in decision-making
• Evidence of continued personal and professional development
• Ability to attain additional clinical skills
• Experience performing advanced nutritional procedures in a variety of settings i.e. Radiologically, endoscopically, and ward based
• Ascertain diagnosis through advanced clinical assessment, history, examination and investigations and action appropriate on-going care
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Demonstrate skilled written and verbal communication
• Evidence of independent working

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If you are offered employment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals your information will be transferred from the Trac recruitment system into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In addition, in submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed.

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The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community. Should you require any assistance in applying for the position please contact the General or Medical Human Resources Departments on the number identified on the NHS Jobs page for the organisation.

Job Share applicants are welcome for all full time posts unless indicated but cannot be guaranteed. In addition for Fixed Term Contracts, internal secondments may be considered, please seek the approval of your current line manager before applying for the position.

All employment with the Trust is subject to a number of NHS Employment Checks being met to a satisfactory standard including verification of identity, eligibility to work in the United Kingdom, references and qualifications in addition to professional registration, a disclosure and barring records check and occupational health check if these are deemed to be a requirement for the position to be undertaken.

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Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Name Tom Welbank Job title Enteral Nutrition Service Lead/ ACP Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 0114 2269572 Additional information

Please make contact with Tom via email with any questions about the role.