Job summary
- Main area
- Nursing and Midwifery
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 210-2025-120
- Employer
- Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Countess of Chester Hospital
- Town
- Chester
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Clinical Nurse Specialist in Nutrition
Band 7
Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, staff pride themselves on not only leading through clinical excellence, but also by creating an environment where all staff are valued and appreciated. To achieve this, the Trust has embarked on an exciting new strategy focused on continuous improvement.
Our vision is to improve the lives of our community and provide excellence in healthcare, through partnership and innovation
Our High Performance Culture will support everyone to be the best version of themselves by being true to our Trust vision, values and behaviours.
We welcome applications from colleagues from our local and neighbouring communities of all backgrounds and identities, who are currently under-represented within our region such as Black, Asian, Minority ethnic and those with disabilities.
As a region we are reviewing the way we work, and exploring how new working practices that support flexible working can create a positive work-life balance. As part of our recruitment process we will explore how our inclusive employment policies, flexible working, staff engagement forums, Trust facilities and services can be of mutual benefit.
Job overview
Working Part time - 30 hours per week
We are recruiting for a Nutrition Clinical Nurse Specialist who shares our vision to provide consistently outstanding care and exemplary service to our patients.
This post is designed to perform a key role in the delivery of a high-quality patient nutrition service based at Countess of Chester Hospital covering the acute and community setting.
You will be an integral member of the team and will have a key role in overseeing the strategy and implementation of best nutritional care for the patients within the Trust.
Clinically this post is integrated with the nutrition team consisting of a consultant gastroenterologist, dietician, speech and language therapist and the nutrition clinical nurse specialist. The service aims to identify patients with nutritional problems, in particular those who need enteral or parenteral feeding support.
At the heart of everything we do are our core values: safe, kind and effective. We encourage you to embrace these values throughout the recruitment process and in your role with us.
Main duties of the job
- To lead on the development of nursing standards for nutritional care.
- To effectively manage own caseload, co-ordinating the care and treatment of patients receiving nutritional support (both enteral and parenteral) in the acute and community setting
- Working within the multidisciplinary team to ensure that patients who require enteral and parenteral nutritional support receive the highest standards of care.
- Attending weekly MDT clinics for patients who require enteral and parenteral nutrition
- Assess patients requiring long term enteral tube feeding for both inpatients and outpatients.
- Facilitate insertions of complex nasogastric tubes, nasojejunal tubes, nasal bridles and PEG tubes where needed.
- Contribute and participate in core clinical policies relating to nutritional support.
Working for our organisation
The Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides services to West Cheshire and to Welsh patients covered by Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board. The Trust works collaboratively within the wider Cheshire and Merseyside Health and Care Partnership. Its services are provided from three locations:
• The Countess of Chester Hospital: providing 438 general and acute beds.
• Ellesmere Port Hospital: providing 56 beds as a rehabilitation, intermediate and outpatient facility.
• Tarporley War Memorial Hospital: a base for community services which serve the local rural population.
The Trust employs over 6258 staff (headcount) which includes temporary bank staff and provides acute emergency and elective services, primary care direct access services and obstetric services to a population of approximately 407,000. This includes 357,000 residents in Chester and West Cheshire which includes Ellesmere Port and Neston as well as the Deeside area of Flintshire which has a population of approximately 50,000.
The Trust is a busy district general hospital and in 2022/2023, there were more than 503,342 patient attendances (inpatient, outpatient and diagnostic) ranging from a simple outpatient appointment to major cancer surgery. This is an increase of nearly 10,000 compared to the previous year when there were 494,387 patient attendances.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See Job Description for further details.
Recruitment selection processes are based on competence (see Person specification) and values.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £27.50 (standard) or £55.50 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first three months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. A small annual fee of £16 per year applies.
New entrants to the NHS will commence on the minimum of the scale stated above.
Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date.
Good luck with your application.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- RN/RSCN Diploma or Degree
- NMC Registered
- Level 7 masters or equivalent study.
- Clinical assessment & diagnostics (Level 7)
- Relevant specialty related qualification/module (Insertion of CVADs, IV access)
Desirable criteria
- Trained in Advanced Life Support
- Management qualification or equivalent
- Continuous Professional
- V300 Non medical prescribing (Level 7)
Experience
Essential criteria
- Speciality knowledge and experience
- Basic knowledge of financial management within the clinical setting.
- Knowledge of professional and NHS issues and an understanding of corporate objectives.
- To complete the Trust toolkit competencies
- Relevant Post Registration clinical experience
- Initiation an implementation of change
Skills
Essential criteria
- Able to manage own workload and co-ordinate that of others.
- Basic IT skills in word processing/Hospital Systems
- Able to present written information in a logical manner.
- Ability to communicate in a variety of settings with patients of varying levels of understanding.
- Ability to communicate sensitive information.
- Ability to develop effective interpersonal relationships with colleagues at all levels of the organisation.
Desirable criteria
- Presentation / teaching skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kirsty Capper
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01244 36 6581
- Additional information
Gemma Walton, Team Coordinator
List jobs with Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in Nursing and Midwifery or all sectors