The closing date is 07 April 2026
Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum, pro rata
Job summary
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and driven registered nurse to join our Specialist Nutrition Support Nurse team as part of the Christie nutrition and dietetic team in our world class cancer centre, providing an opportunity to develop your practice within this specialist area of nursing.
If you are you passionate and have and interest or experience of working within in nutrition and/or oncology, and experience of varied feeding tubes, such as gastrostomies, nasogastric tubes, nasojejunal tubes and want to develop your skills further, then this is the post for you. The experienced and well-established team will support with competency and confidence development for this specialist role.
As a member of the Specialist Nutrition Support Nurse team, you will work closely with the dietetic team, and, as well as collaborate with the wider MDT and stake holders, to deliver high quality patient centred care for patients requiring artificial nutrition.
DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Clinical
- To support the senior nutrition nurse and be responsible for own caseload providing an expert assessment plan and evaluation within the specialist area for enteral tubes
- To conduct regular ward visits to ensure compliance with nutritional standards and act as a resource for nutrition care planning and feeding tubes care delivery.
- To be involved in patient selection and education regarding enteral and parenteral nutrition support.
- To attend multidisciplinary / best interest meetings to discuss management of patients requiring enteral or parenteral nutrition at home.
- To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up to date documentation on the patient electronic system of individual patients in line with local and national standards and trust policy on confidentiality.
- To cover and support the organisation of home parenteral nutrition feed discharge patients as required alongside other nutrition nurse colleagues
Enteral
- To counsel and educate patients during the consent process for placement of enteral feeding tubes.
- To be competent to place nasogastric feeding tubes.
- To coordinate the gastrostomy service in collaboration with the senior nutrition nurse and interventional radiology team.
- To provide follow-up after interventional procedures for nutritional support and help with audit of outcome data.
- To be able to place secondary gastrostomy tube devices in hospital.
- To work alongside the dietitians and be involved in the setting up of a home enteral feed to ensure a safe and timely discharge.
- To educate and support the patient, carers, nursing staff and district nurses on the care of enteral feeding tubes before and after discharge.
- To work with the senior nutrition nurse to develop the nutritional nursing care service to patients in line with national standards.
- To work closely with the nutrition nurse teams, dietitians, nurse leaders and nurse clinicians to promote good practice and lead and support changes in practice
- To take an active role in audit and annually supporting the review of nursing guidelines, policies and patient information concerning enteral and parenteral nutrition in conjunction with the dietitians and senior nutrition nurse.
- To identify clinical issues and incidents within the Trust that reduces the quality of care within the specialist service. Devise strategies to counter these to ensure the delivery of safe and effective care.
- To maintain patient data and statistics for service development
- To attend and participate in departmental, professional update meetings and trust nutrition related meetings.
- To be responsible for own clinical professional development (CPD) to maintain competency and to ensure best practice.
- Take an active part in professional networks to ensure the exchange of knowledge and ideas, both locally and nationally. Contribute to the development of national policy.
- In conjunction with the senior nutrition nurse provide specialist nursing knowledge of nutritional care to medical and nursing staff and students
- In conjunction with the senior nutrition nurse deliver an education programme on the nurse management of oncology patients receiving nutrition support internally and externally at regional level to nursing staff and other health care professionals.
- To work with the senior nutrition nurse to develop the nutrition link nurse group and be accountable to the Nutrition steering group.
- To promote good nursing practice in enteral and parenteral feeding to ward staff.
- To participate in the education of nursing staff on nutritionally screening patients, care planning and protected mealtimes and carry out regular audits
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Current NMC registration
- Diploma or degree in nursing studies
Desirable
- Mentorship module
Experience
Essential
- Experience in an acute setting
- NHS experience or equivalent
- Experience in oncology
- Evidence of clinical audit
- Evidence of educational study in nutrition
- Evidence of interest in nutrition
- Evidence in recent management and care of patients with feeding tubes
Desirable
- Evidence of setting standards and producing action plans
- Experience in endoscopic / radiological procedures
- Experience in gastroenterology
Skills
Essential
- Able to deliver a high standard of evidence based individual patient care
- To provide all nursing care in line with Trust policies and protocols
- Good interpersonal skills and initiative
- Able to work as part of a team
- Independently insert nasogastric
- Assess gastrostomy tubes
- Provide aftercare for feeding tubes
- Able to teach formally and informally
- Able to present information written and verbal
- Computer literate
Desirable
- Replace gastrostomy tubes
Knowledge
Essential
- Up to date knowledge of nursing issues in relation to nutritional support, enteral feeding and parenteral feeding
- Understanding of national nutrition standards and guidelines (CQC, NPSA, PLACE, NICE)
- Knowledge of endoscopic and radiologic procedures for nutritional support
- Evidence of own personal continuing professional development (CPD)
VALUES
Essential
- Able to work as autonomous practitioner
- Able to manage own work load
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
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