Band 8a Senior Lead for Nutrition Nursing | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 13 Mawrth 2026 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £55,690 - £62,682 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 12 Ebrill 2026 |
| Lleoliad: | Birmingham, B7 5JR |
| Cwmni: | Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7710100/820-7710100-ASR |
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We are seeking a proactive Registered Nurse with strong expertise in all aspects of enteral feeding to join our Birmingham Community Nutrition leadership team. You will use your clinical knowledge, safeguarding awareness, and understanding of enteral feeding products to support safe governance of the enteral feeding service and budget for over a thousand patients across Birmingham. Working closely with neighbourhood teams, you will help facilitate safe discharge, prevent hospital admissions, and enable device changes within patients’ homes.
This new role will be Safeguarding lead for the service and provide supervision and training for the adult nutrition nurse team, coordinating clinical cover and ensuring staff have the skills and equipment needed for effective caseload management.
At Birmingham Community Nutrition, we deliver exceptional care, closer to home and value staff wellbeing. This is a unique opportunity to lead, innovation, support complex cases, and contribute to consistent, high-quality service delivery across the trust.
Provide leadership to the nutrition nurse team and the wider trust on enteral feeding equipment, it will monitor and assess new entrants to the market and the cost-effective solutions to nutritional care.
Work on complex clinical cases, leveraging yourexpert knowledge of Nutrition nursingandsafeguarding policyto support vulnerable patients.
Work alongside the service lead to provide a coordinated approach to leadership to ensure consistency and excellence across the service.
The postholder will provide visible clinical and professional leadership for identified pathways and the nurses within the BCHC Nutrition Nursing Service including:
• Children and Families
• Learning Disabilities
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They will also be responsible for line managing the administration staff who support this process.
To work with the Service Clinical Managers (SCMs) to ensure safe and effective clinical delivery of pathways, including triage, MDT/panel discussion and safe discharge from the pathways, providing support to staff with delegated clinical responsibility for any aspects of this.
To lead on clinical change and work with the SCMs and Clinical Nurse Specialists to implement.
Full duties please see JD.
Birmingham Community Nutrition provides a comprehensive community citywide service for the Birmingham CCG and employs over 70 staff. We also support the training of dietetic students from two higher education institutions (A, B & C placements).
Benefits of working for Birmingham Community Nutrition include free parking at all community venues, excellent access to IT equipment to work remotely, up to date office facilities and comprehensive admin support dedicated to the service.
The department has a structured approach to Clinical Governance and your personal development via preceptorship, annual appraisals, clinical supervision and training opportunities. Career development, flexible working and staff support are given high priority in the Trust, whose goal is to be a truly inclusive organisation and a great place to work.
To maintain and build on effective partnership working arrangements within the city, including Neighbourhood teams, Community Care Collaborative staff, Commissioners and external companies, to support and develop integrated service delivery.
To advise, guide and engage in care planning relevant to nutrition nursing.
To make a significant overall contribution to service development, ensuring that the service is up to date and fit for purpose, writing and developing processes, standards and policies as necessary.
To ensure that clinical objectives are set for the pathways, which incorporate the Divisional and Trust objectives, maximise opportunities for integrated working and consider local needs, issues and access.
To be responsible for standard setting, guidelines and policies, to ensure that they are current and adhere to a high standard, including implementation of NICE guidelines.
Full duties please see JD.
This advert closes on Friday 27 Mar 2026