Senior Nutrition Nurse Specialist

The post holder will work with the Lead Nurse to provide a specialist nutrition nurse service, meeting the needs of patients throughout the Trust, ensuring the maintenance and development of clinical excellence.

The post also includes responsibility for providing expert knowledge and specialist advice to a wide range of professional staff and meeting the educational needs of staff involved the management of enteral and parenteral nutrition.

The post holder will ensure that a high level of nutritional care is achieved and maintained by informing and utilising the Trust's policies, strategies, audit processes, education and research agenda.

Support the Lead Nurse in the management of the Nutrition Nurse Team. Deputise for the Lead Nurse during periods of leave., Main duties will include working as an autonomous practitioner, providing clinical expertise relating to enteral and parenteral nutrition. Providing support for other health care professionals, patients and their families.

Safe prescribing of parenteral nutrition regimens and relevant medications/ intravenous fluids as recommended by the nutrition support team.

Assessing patients for enteral tube insertion and taking the lead or being a part of MDT discussion and best interest meetings.

Undertake first nurse assistant role for PEG insertion and independently provide a PEG removal list.

Providing nutrition related education trust wide at planned events and as required at ward level.

Be a part of the MEED (medical emergencies in eating disorders) MDT, providing support for the patient, their family and the ward teams.

DBTH is one of Yorkshire's Leading acute trusts, serving a population of more than 440,000. Our services are based over three main hospital sites and several additional services employing over 7,000 colleagues.

At DBTH we have a comprehensive framework of behaviours that guide us in our daily working lives, these form the DBTH Way. We pride ourselves on our commitment to the values of We Care and now the DBTH Way builds upon these foundations, providing further clarity on what it means to embody these values in our everyday interactions.

As an organisation that supports flexible working, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

As an equal opportunities employer, we encourage applicants from all sectors of the community, particularly from under-represented groups including those with disabilities, members of our ethnic minorities and LGBTQ+ communities.

We offer a range of benefits to support our people including:o Extensive range of learning opportunitieso NHS Pension Schemeo Generous holiday entitlement in line with Terms & Conditionso Comprehensive health and wellbeing supporto NHS Car Lease schemes and a range of salary sacrifice schemeo Discounts on restaurants, getaways, shopping and finance through external providers.