Nutrition Support Specialist Nurse Practitioner

NHS; Oxford; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Part time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity for a part-time Nutrition Support Specialist Nurse Practitioner at NHS in Oxford. This role involves providing care for patients requiring nutrition support, collaborating with multidisciplinary teams, and delivering education and training related to nutrition support modalities. Ideal candidates are registered nurses with a commitment to high-quality patient care.

Qualifications

• Registered Nurse with NMC required.
• Knowledge of nutrition support modalities.
• Experience with central venous access devices.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert care and advice for patients needing nutrition support.
• Develop specialist knowledge in nutrition support and intestinal failure.
• Work collaboratively across healthcare teams.

Skills

Nutrition support modalities

Patient education

Communication

Education

Registered Nurse with NMC

Job description

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Nutrition Support Specialist Nurse Practitioner

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Job summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen where we would like to invite someone to join our Nutrition Support Specialist Nursing team in a part time role.

The role of the Nutrition Support Specialist Nurse is to contribute to providing a high-quality and knowledgeable specialist nursing service for adult patients requiring nutrition support. This support may be via the parenteral route with intravenous infusions or via the enteral route with nasogastric, gastrostomy or jejunostomy tubes with patients being in an inpatient and an out-patient setting.

The successful applicant should be motivated and committed to high quality and compassionate patient care. They should have existing knowledge of modes of nutrition support with skills and experience related to feeding device insertion techniques and methods of administration.

Our specialist nursing team is supported by the wider multidisciplinary Nutrition Support Team, with regular contact from specialist Consultant Gastroenterologists, Pharmacists and Dietitians. Collectively, the team provides complex clinical nutrition support across the Trust. A commitment to collaborative team working and effective communication is therefore essential to the role.

Final words: Whilst we are a small team of specialist nurses, we have a have strong patient centred focus on the service and care that we deliver. We would like to invite a like-minded nurse to come to join us, so why not get in contact and find out if this is the next role for you.

Main duties of the job

As a general overview of the post, the working week will predominantly cover enteral and parenteral activities related to Nutrition Support but also there is a requirement to provide specialist training to staff and patients. Some aspects of the role will be directly patient facing with inpatients and outpatients who attend specialist clinics. However, there will also be the need work in a non-patient facing capacity to support patients who are at home whilst also providing clinical advice and support.

Key duties and expectations of the role, include but are not limited to:

o Development of specialist knowledge related to nutrition support and intestinal failure underpinned by theory and evidence-based practice.

o Contribution to the day-to-day clinical care of those patients receiving nutrition support by providing expert care, advice and support to patients and their families and act as a resource to other staff.

o Working collaboratively and across other professional and organisational boundaries to support this group of patients.

o Establishing effective communication with patient/carers and families and other healthcare professionals about complex matters to support and maintain therapeutic relationships

o Contributing to the development of services and quality improvement initiatives.

o Practicing in accordance with the professional, ethical and legal framework for nursing.

o Ability to work flexibly meet demands of the service.

About us

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest NHS teaching trusts in the country. It provides a wide range of general and specialist clinical services and is a base for medical education, training and research. The Trust comprises four hospitals - the John Radcliffe Hospital, Churchill Hospital and Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Headington and the Horton General Hospital in Banbury. For more information on OUH please view OUH At a Glance by OUHospitals - Issuu

Our values, standards and behaviours define the quality of clinical care we offer and the professional relationships we make with our patients, colleagues and the wider community.

We call this Delivering Compassionate Excellence and its focus is on our values of compassion, respect, learning, delivery, improvement and excellence.

These values put patients at the heart of what we do and underpin the quality healthcare we would like for ourselves or a member of our family. Watch how we set out to deliver compassionate excellence via the OUH YouTube channel.

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Relevant skills and experience

• Registered Nurse with NMC
• Working in, or has worked in an acute clinical setting
• Knowledge and clinical skills related to nutrition support modalities
• Prior experience with managing and caring for central venous access devices
• Delivery of staff or patient education
• Experience of audit and/or service evaluation

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.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

£37,338 to £44,962 a yearper annum pro rata