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Clinical Nurse Specialist - Nutrition | East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust

Posting date:	05 February 2025
Salary:	Not specified
Additional salary information:	£46,148 - £52,809 per annum
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	07 March 2025
Location:	Stevenage, SG1 4AB
Company:	East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	6928720/361-6928720

Summary

We are recruiting for a Nutrition Clinical Nurse Specialist who shares our vision to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.

This post is designed to perform a key role in the delivery of a high-quality patient nutrition service based at Lister Hospital.

You will be an integral member of the team and will have a key role in overseeing the strategy and implementation of best nutritional care for the patients within the Trust.

Clinically this post is integrated with the nutrition team consisting of a consultant gastroenterologist, dietician and the nutrition clinical nurse specialist. The service aims to identify patients with nutritional problems, in particular those who need enteral or parenteral feeding support.

At the heart of everything we do are our core values: Include, Respect, and Improve. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.

Provision of care through screening programmes, nurse-led clinics, accepting referrals, undertaking diagnostic procedures, undertaking therapeutic procedures, physical assessments and obtaining written consent to treatment.

Carrying a caseload, and responsibility for the management of complex cases.

Be a clinical expert in assessment of nutritional needs and delivery of treatment

Coordinate the Nutrition Support Team (NST) with nursing care in general

Develop safe and practical nursing techniques with respect to nutrition policy

Provide advanced technical skills in relation to NG/NJ feeding and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG); liaising with services for radiologically inserted gastrostomy (RIG) and peripherally inserted central catheter (PICC).

Advise on nutrition support policy and coordinate strategy including issues regarding risk management and ethical decision making

To provide clinical advice to all staff within the multidisciplinary team

To maintain accurate and comprehensive patient records, and report on all procedures, ensuring that copies are received by referring clinicians and GP’s.

Act as a patient advocate and care manager for nutrition support patients

Advise and assist in procurement of equipment

At East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, we are proud of the range of general and specialist services we provide and our 6,000 or so dedicated staff ensure our patients get the best care. Our ability to be flexible and innovative in the way in which we work and deliver our services to our catchment has never been more important than it is now.

We run the following hospitals:
• The Lister Hospital, Stevenage
• New Queen Elizabeth II (New QEII), Welwyn Garden City
• Hertford County, Hertford
• Mount Vernon Cancer Centre (MVCC), Northwood

We have ambitious plans to become an outstanding, patient-led Trust where dedicated staff provide high-quality, compassionate care to our patients. We continue to undergo significant transformation and our staff and patients are at the heart of delivering this ambitious agenda.

We are committed to a positive work life balance for our employees. This means that any employee is entitled to seek to work flexible working patterns and we are committed to listen and consider all requests. Such requests, of course, have to be made and considered formally, and will need to be balanced against service needs, but our starting point will always be to find ways to support making them happen.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification applicant pack for further detailed information regarding this role. 


This advert closes on Wednesday 19 Feb 2025