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Nutrition Nurse Specialist | St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 January 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £44,806 - £53,134 per annum pro rata (inc HCAS) |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 February 2025 |
| Location: | Tooting, SW17 0QT |
| Company: | st georges nhs trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6804228/200-6804228-GO-SC |
Summary
• We have an exciting opportunity to join the Complex Nutrition Team as a Band 6 Nutrition Clinical Nurse Specialist on a fixed term basis to cover a period of leave. The fixed term post is due to finish early January 2026.
• The team is led by Gastroenterologists and you will be working alongside a Band 8a and Band 7 CNS as well as the Dietician and Pharmacy teams.
• You will get to care for a range of patients who require complex artificial nutrition.
• It is a very busy and demanding job. It is mostly clinical (working on the wards and attending outpatient clinics) however you will be expected to contribute to protocol changes and training of staff.
We are looking for someone who has experience within Gastroenterology and will need to demonstrate:
• Strong leadership skills
• Dynamic
• Excellent organisational skills
• Maintain our standards and deliver the best service to our patients.
• An excellent worth ethic
• A growth mindset
• Hard worker
• To lead on the development of nursing standards for nutritional care.
• To effectively manage own caseload, co-ordinating the care and treatment of patients receiving nutritional support (both enteral and parenteral).
• Working within the multidisciplinary team to ensure that patients who require enteral and parenteral nutritional support receive the highest standards of care.
• Experience of working with patients who require enteral or parenteral nutrition is essential along with advanced communication skills.
• Attending weekly MDT clinics for patients who require enteral and parenteral nutrition
• Assess patients requiring long term enteral tube feeding for both inpatients and outpatients.
• Facilitate insertions of complex nasogastric tubes, nasojejunal tubes and nasal bridles where needed.
• Contribute and participate in core clinical policies relating to nutritional support.
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 28 Jan 2025
• The team is led by Gastroenterologists and you will be working alongside a Band 8a and Band 7 CNS as well as the Dietician and Pharmacy teams.
• You will get to care for a range of patients who require complex artificial nutrition.
• It is a very busy and demanding job. It is mostly clinical (working on the wards and attending outpatient clinics) however you will be expected to contribute to protocol changes and training of staff.
We are looking for someone who has experience within Gastroenterology and will need to demonstrate:
• Strong leadership skills
• Dynamic
• Excellent organisational skills
• Maintain our standards and deliver the best service to our patients.
• An excellent worth ethic
• A growth mindset
• Hard worker
• To lead on the development of nursing standards for nutritional care.
• To effectively manage own caseload, co-ordinating the care and treatment of patients receiving nutritional support (both enteral and parenteral).
• Working within the multidisciplinary team to ensure that patients who require enteral and parenteral nutritional support receive the highest standards of care.
• Experience of working with patients who require enteral or parenteral nutrition is essential along with advanced communication skills.
• Attending weekly MDT clinics for patients who require enteral and parenteral nutrition
• Assess patients requiring long term enteral tube feeding for both inpatients and outpatients.
• Facilitate insertions of complex nasogastric tubes, nasojejunal tubes and nasal bridles where needed.
• Contribute and participate in core clinical policies relating to nutritional support.
St George’s, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey. Our sites include St George’s Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area; St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).
After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.
Please see the attached supporting document which contains more and person specification information about the role.
This advert closes on Tuesday 28 Jan 2025
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