Lead Nutrition Specialist Nurse

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in the UK seeks a Lead Nutrition Nurse Specialist to manage patients needing artificial nutrition support. The ideal candidate will have experience in nutritional care and demonstrate advanced clinical practice. Responsibilities include working with multidisciplinary teams to enhance nutritional services and partake in educational and service improvement efforts. This role offers a chance to significantly impact patient care.

Qualifications

• Experience in providing inpatient and outpatient care to patients with nutritional problems.
• Familiarity with parenteral and enteral nutrition support.
• Self-motivated with a positive attitude towards change.

Responsibilities

• Manage patients requiring artificial nutrition support.
• Support multidisciplinary team to ensure quality nutritional care.
• Participate in educational sessions and contribute to service improvement.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Clinical decision making

Nutritional care planning

Education

Relevant post registration course in nutrition

Job description

Overview

The Lead Nutrition Nurse Specialist will be an integral part of the clinical management team supporting the Gastroenterology department during the work week. The Lead Nutrition Nurse Specialist will demonstrate advanced autonomous clinical practice working across traditional boundaries and augmenting the medical role, utilising assessment, decision making and diagnostic skills. By independently ordering and interpreting investigations, the Lead Nutrition Nurse Specialist demonstrates the ability to safely manage his/her own caseload, identifying the need to involve other members of the MDT, ensuring high quality, effective management of patients. The Lead Nutrition Nurse Specialist will take the lead, participate in educational sessions; clinical supervision; research, audit as well as quality and service improvement, ensuring high quality, effective management of patients. The post holder will abide by legal requirements and statutory rules relating to their practice maintaining standards of professional practice in accordance with the NMC guidelines.

Responsibilities (illustrative)

We are looking for an enthusiastic, caring and compassionate individual, who has a keen interest in managing patients requiring artificial nutrition support and who is ready to work towards expanding, strengthening and developing the current service. The post holder will support the delivery of nutritional services within the Trust, working with the multidisciplinary team supporting medical, nursing and other clinical colleagues to ensure the quality of nutritional care to patients is maximised.

Qualifications and attributes

• The applicant should have experience in providing inpatient and outpatient care to patients with nutritional problems; they should be familiar with parenteral and enteral nutrition support and can plan, assess, implement and evaluate patients' nutritional care.
• Excellent interpersonal skills along with the ability to work efficiently and independently.
• You should be self-motivated and have a positive attitude towards change.
• The applicant must demonstrate commitment to their own continued professional development and be committed to contribute to the long-term development of the nutrition service.
• Ideally the successful candidate would have a post registration course applicable to nutrition.

Trust overview

Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites. We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.

Our Services:

• Acute Care: Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
• Primary Care: Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
• Community Services: Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
• Specialist Regional Services: We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.

Achievements

• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme