Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced nurse to lead the nutrition nurse team at University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust. Although, based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, the lead nurse will be responsible for the specialist nutrition nurse service across four acute hospital sites, Solihull Community and the Severe Intestinal Failure service based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
The post holder will be a nutrition nurse specialist with extensive experience in managing complex patients who require nutritional support of all forms including enteral, parenteral and home parenteral nutrition. The postholder will be leading a team of skilled and dynamic nurses and will be supervising a team of independent non-medical prescribers, whilst being a positive and influential leader in the provision of high quality and safe care. As such the post holder must be an independent non-medical prescriber with experience of managing parenteral nutrition regimens. Providing strong clinical leadership, the post holder will be professionally accountable for standards and will work closely with the Consultant Nurse for Nutrition and Intestinal Failure to promote excellence in practice.
Main duties of the job
The ideal candidate will be an autonomous leader with proven multi-disciplinary team collaboration skills, liaising with multi-disciplinary teams across hospital and community settings. They will:
Provide a clear focus for clinical leadership and to be responsible for ensuring the provision of a high standard of holistic, patient-centred care supporting the development of staff caring for patients through support formal education and training, practice development and role modelling.
*Be accountable for co-ordinating aspects of patient care, the management of resources and performance of staff within a defined service or defined group of staff.
*Use a range of techniques to ensure set and monitor standards of clinical practice, audit, research and teaching to set monitor and continually improve standards of care and patient experience.
*Lead on nursing practice development including the development, and or updating of clinical guidelines, policy and procedure that relates to the practice setting.
*Lead on service development and contribute to strategic planning
*lead, manage and develop team performance, promote professionalism and trust.
*Ensure effective delivery of organisational objectives.
*Where required lead or assist in research projects as required, disseminating and ensuring utilisation of research results to change practice.
*Utilise research findings in the delivery of specialist patient care, developing new ways of working.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Job description
Job responsibilities
*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Registered Adult / Child Nurse on the NMC Register.
- *Professional knowledge acquired through post graduate degree / supplemented by specialist training, experience, short courses to Master's degree level in clinical nutrition
- *Non-Medical Prescribing Course
Desirable
- *Advanced Life Support qualification
Experience
Essential
- *Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC
- *Willingness to become a practice supervisor / assessor or meets Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards for student supervision and assessment
- *Extensive post registration experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at Band 7 or above in defined or associated speciality
- *Extensive experience of working autonomously at a specialist level
- *Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
- *Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of ongoing professional development/ competence.
- *Demonstrate expert knowledge underpinned by theory and CPD relevant to speciality
- *Experience and enthusiasm for developing educational programmes and teaching / assessing and supervising others in a clinical setting.
- *Experience in service development
- *Working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment
- *Experience of patient service user advocacy role
- *Experience of resource and budgetary management
- *Experience of leading on the writing / updating of organisational Policy / Procedure / Guidelines associated with the speciality /field Can demonstrate expert nursing knowledge with an ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients and give advice and information to patients / relatives/ care staff
- *Awareness of current relevant NHS policy context relating to the speciality and can translate this into local practice reflected in organisational policy / procedure and service delivery
- *Has understanding / experience of the principles of Safeguarding
- *Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance
Desirable
- *Awareness of current research related to the speciality
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Ability to explain the requirement to balance clinical caseload
- *Ability to communicate with a wide range of health care professionals, on a variety of complex and sensitive issues which require persuasive and empathetic skills.
- *Ability to work autonomously, manage / prioritise own workload
- *Competent in a range of clinical skills and expanded practices relevant to the scope of practice required.
- * Ability to work under pressure across competing priorities
- *Ability to lead clinical audit, analyse information and develop robust measurable action plans to support improvement / change
- *Evidence of ability to compile reports and documents for internal / external communication
- *Knowledge of current evidence-based practice and ability to apply to service and policy development
- *Ability to lead and manage a team
- *Ability to adapt behaviour to changing circumstances
- *Positive and enthusiastic attitude
- *Ability to communicate articulately and motivate others
- *Evidence of flexible and innovative approach to service delivery and development.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- *Registered Adult / Child Nurse on the NMC Register.
- *Professional knowledge acquired through post graduate degree / supplemented by specialist training, experience, short courses to Master's degree level in clinical nutrition
- *Non-Medical Prescribing Course
Desirable
- *Advanced Life Support qualification
Experience
Essential
- *Evidence and ability to revalidate as required by the NMC
- *Willingness to become a practice supervisor / assessor or meets Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards for student supervision and assessment
- *Extensive post registration experience as a Clinical Nurse Specialist at Band 7 or above in defined or associated speciality
- *Extensive experience of working autonomously at a specialist level
- *Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
- *Evidence of achievements and career development in current post and of ongoing professional development/ competence.
- *Demonstrate expert knowledge underpinned by theory and CPD relevant to speciality
- *Experience and enthusiasm for developing educational programmes and teaching / assessing and supervising others in a clinical setting.
- *Experience in service development
- *Working in a multi-disciplinary and cross agency work environment
- *Experience of patient service user advocacy role
- *Experience of resource and budgetary management
- *Experience of leading on the writing / updating of organisational Policy / Procedure / Guidelines associated with the speciality /field Can demonstrate expert nursing knowledge with an ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients and give advice and information to patients / relatives/ care staff
- *Awareness of current relevant NHS policy context relating to the speciality and can translate this into local practice reflected in organisational policy / procedure and service delivery
- *Has understanding / experience of the principles of Safeguarding
- *Knowledge of corporate and clinical governance
Desirable
- *Awareness of current research related to the speciality
Additional Criteria
Essential
- *Ability to explain the requirement to balance clinical caseload
- *Ability to communicate with a wide range of health care professionals, on a variety of complex and sensitive issues which require persuasive and empathetic skills.
- *Ability to work autonomously, manage / prioritise own workload
- *Competent in a range of clinical skills and expanded practices relevant to the scope of practice required.
- * Ability to work under pressure across competing priorities
- *Ability to lead clinical audit, analyse information and develop robust measurable action plans to support improvement / change
- *Evidence of ability to compile reports and documents for internal / external communication
- *Knowledge of current evidence-based practice and ability to apply to service and policy development
- *Ability to lead and manage a team
- *Ability to adapt behaviour to changing circumstances
- *Positive and enthusiastic attitude
- *Ability to communicate articulately and motivate others
- *Evidence of flexible and innovative approach to service delivery and development.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
