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Nutrition Support Nurse
The closing date is 21 August 2025
We have an exciting opportunity for a Nutrition Support Nurse to join our Nutrition team at Ipswich Hospital, - 30 hours per week, Fixed Term/Secondment until the 30th September 2026.
The post is ideal for an experienced nurse wanting to consolidate their knowledge and skills in nutrition support. You will work alongside the Band 7 Nutrition Clinical Nurse Specialist. If you are motivated and committed to providing high quality patient care and maintaining high standards then this could be a great opportunity for you.
Ideally you would have experience of working autonomously and be able to demonstrate their ability to prioritise workload, as well as having excellent interpersonal skills. They will have knowledge and a keen interest in nutrition and nutrition support. Excellent communication, organisational and team working skills are essential.
Nutrition Nurses are key members of the Nutrition Support Team, managing parenteral nutrition and complex enteral nutrition, arranging tube insertion including aftercare. The role also includes assessment of gastrostomy referrals and acts as the link between community and the hospital for patients with gastrostomy tubes.
Training and development will be supported through annual appraisal and clinical supervision.
Main duties of the job
In this role you will provide a specialist and comprehensive nursing service within a multi-professional framework for patients requiring nutrition support. You will also provide specialist advice, support and education to all relevant staff within the Trust on nursing aspects of nutrition support promoting high quality, evidence based practice.
The team holds twice-weekly multi-professional ward rounds lead by the Consultant Gastroenterologist - Lead clinician for Nutrition patient safety agenda and continually work to improve standards in nutritional care across the Trust.
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Experience
* Proven post registration nursing experience in an acute hospital environment
* Experience of caring for patients requiring nutritional support
* Ability to prioritise own work load
* Nursing experience at band 6
* Prior experience working as a nutrition nurse
* Experience of audit
* Evidence of service development
* Community experience
Qualifications
* Registered Nurse
* Degree Level or studying towards this (e.g. Post registration module)
* Evidence of continuous professional development
* Undertaking current academic study/prepared to undertake post graduate level study
* Post basic qualifications in relevant areas
* Teaching and assessing qualification
Knowledge
* Excellent knowledge of nutrition and nutritional support
* Understanding and ability to apply clinical governance principles to practice.
* Knowledge and understanding of evidence based practice.
* Knowledge of gastroenterology and surgical procedures
* Knowledge of research and audit process
* Good understanding of current issues relating to the NHS
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
£38,682 to £46,580 a yearper annum pro rata
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