Nutrition Clinical Nurse Specialist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a 6 month secondment as a Nutritional Clinical Nurse Specialist to join a small nursing team delivering care to patients with nutritional needs.

This post would be suitable for registered nurses with a minimum of 2yrs post registration experience and experience working with patients who receive enteral and parental feeding.

At band 6 entry level you will have support from the Lead Nutrition Nurse Specialist and the wider nursing team . Regular in-house teaching and appropriate external conferences also support essential knowledge in this fast-moving field.

You will need excellent communication and interpersonal skills with an ability to maintain accuracy and attention to detail even when working under pressure. You must also be proactive and motivated to learn this specialist field to high standard and deliver high-quality, safe, evidence based and compassionate patient care, with excellent organisational skills and be computer literate.

This post is to promote, enhance and work with the Nutrition Nurse Specialist team to deliver a specialist nursing service to patients and families within the University Hospital of North Midlands NHS Trust.

Work within a clinical team to deliver a specialist nutritional service and to enhance the quality of patient care.

To provide psychological support, advice and information to patients and families

Support the Lead Nutrition Nurse as appropriate and provide a credible source of specialist knowledge and advice.

This post supports patients with various complex medical needs and conditions therefore requires a candidate with passion and empathy who strives to deliver excellent patient care.

University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust is one of the largest and most modern in the country. Based across two sites, Royal Stoke in Stoke-on-Trent and County Hospital in Stafford, we are proud to serve around three million people and we're highly regarded for our facilities, teaching and research. We are the specialist centre for major trauma for the North Midlands and North Wales.

All of our employees make a valuable contribution regardless of role here at UHNM and we are proud of our wide range of development packages aimed at ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to fulfil their true potential.

UHNM create and encourage a culture of inclusion, providing equal opportunities for career development that are fair and transparent. We are committed to being a diverse and inclusive employer and foster a culture in which all staff feel valued and respected. In return we ask all of our employees to make a commitment to the values, co-created by or staff, patients and carers, and that unite us as a Trust.

At University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust we know that investing in, supporting and developing our staff has a direct impact on the quality of care that we deliver. Our employees are as important as our patients and the population that we serve.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Gareth Latham Job title: Lead Nutrition Clinical Nurse Specialist Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01782 674655