Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist in Nutrition | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 07 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810 - £54,710 per annum, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 06 August 2025 |
| Location: | Halifax, HD33EA |
| Company: | Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7239157/372-MED2459 |
Summary
This post is to support patients who require enteral/parenteral nutrition, their relatives and carers from diagnosis throughout their journey across the acute setting. The post holder will act as a key Worker and a specialist resource of current clinical information addressing the specific needs of individual patients through direct/indirect interventions.
• 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) in the acute setting
• Working within the multidisciplinary team to ensure that patients who require enteral and parenteral nutritional support receive the highest standards of care.
• Attending weekly MDT clinics for patients who require enteral and parenteral nutrition
• Assess patients requiring long term enteral tube feeding for inpatients
• Facilitate insertions of complex nasogastric tubes, nasojejunal tubes, nasal bridles and PEG tubes where needed.
• Contribute and participate in core clinical policies relating to nutritional support
We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients’ homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.
We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children’s and young people’s services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.
The post holder will possess a critical understanding of detailed theoretical and practical knowledge in nutrition. As well as being a clinical lead for nutritional treatment you will be involved in nutrition policy writing and audit, development, and delivery of nutrition training programmes, represent at the nutrition and hydration steering groups and lead on quality and service improvement projects, working towards optimising patient flow, safety and nutrition care standards for all patients. You will need to demonstrate a high level of professionalism and knowledge demanded by this grade, have several years post registration and demonstrate leadership, advanced communication skills and engagement in leading change.
This advert closes on Sunday 13 Jul 2025