Lead Nurse for Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition

The Royal Berkshire; Reading; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

The Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust in Reading is seeking a Band 8A Lead Nurse for Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition. You will lead a multidisciplinary team to ensure complex patients receive appropriate nutrition support across hospital and home settings.

Role involves line management of the enteral and PN nursing team, collaboration with gastroenterology, pharmacy and dietetics, and contribution to national data submissions and service reviews.

Responsibilities

• Leading and line-managing the enteral and PN nursing team.
• Liaising with gastroenterology consultants, pharmacists and dietitians to optimise nutrition care.
• Co-ordinating home care reviews with external providers and national data submissions.
• Conducting daily inpatient PN ward rounds and covering consultant absences.
• Supporting the Nutrition Steering Committee, MUST scoring and fluid balance management.

Job description

Band 8A Lead Nurse for Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition

PLEASE NOTE: Sponsorship is not normally available for this vacancy - applicants must have the right-to-work in the UK for this role by their proposed start date.

To work with the multidisciplinary specialist nutrition team to ensure complex patients receive parenteral and enteral nutrition where indicated.

The Lead Nurse role will ensure line management of 2 enteral band 7 nurses and 1 parenteral nutrition nurse. Within the nutrition team there are 2 Gastroenterology Consultants a pharmacist and a dietician.

• Supporting approximately 60 home patients on IV fluids and Home Parenteral Nutrition including prescriptions.
• Involves liaising with commercial home care companies (x 4) for home patient reviews and service review meetings.
• Managing the enteral nursing team.
• Supporting complex nutrition patient MDT's.
• Liaising with other HPN centres (RBH is one of 22 HPN centres).
• Managing IF Database and supporting national data submissions.
• Supporting other local hospitals e.g.RSCH, Basingstoke, Frimley, with HPN remote discharges.
• Daily inpatient PN ward rounds (leading the team during Consultant absence).
• Supporting general nutrition within the hospital e.g. Nutrition Steering Committee (NSC); dietitians and MUST scoring; fluid balance, etc.

Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.

Our Trust "CARE" values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Julie Boxley Job title: Matron in Abdominal Surgery Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0118 322 8792