Band 7 Paediatric Nutrition Nurse Specialist
| Posting date: | 23 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £47,810.00 to £54,710.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £47810.00 - £54710.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 06 April 2026 |
| Location: | Birmingham, B7 5JR |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9820-26-0230 |
Summary
The Childrens Nutrition Nurse Specialist will continue to coordinate and develop the provision of a specialist paediatric nutrition nursing service within Birmingham alongside the existing Lead Nutrition Nurse for Children. Your role will involve liaising with the Specialist Nursing Service for Childrens and Families as a clinical expert to provide effective care for enteral feeding patients. The successful post holder should have experience caring for patients with enteral feeding tubes. Good communication is key as you will be expected to work effectively with multidisciplinary teams across the trust, acute units with other professionals working in the community. You will hold a caseload of children and young people (CYP) that require support with the management of their enteral feeding tube and support delivering clinical interventions required within the community setting. You will work autonomously to provide advanced highly specialised professional advice to colleagues to enhance clinical practice and ensure high standards of enteral feeding tube care. This role offers the opportunity to: Deliver specialist nutrition nursing care to infants, children and young people with enteral feeding tubes Act as a clinical expert and advisor for complex cases, and help staff troubleshoot and problem solve Lead and deliver education, training and competency assessment for staff, patients and carers Contribute to service development, audit and quality improvement projects Support safeguarding, consent and best-interest decision-making for children Please note that the job description and banding is currently under review. If you are interested in this role we strongly encourage applicants to call for aninformation discussion and/or department visit. Please contact - Emma Butt,Lead Nutrition Nurse - 07702959862, emma.butt@nhs.net or - Jodie Owen, ServiceClinical Manager - 07736635579, Jodie.owen8@nhs.net