Job summary
This is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic and motived Registered Nurse to become part of our team to gain invaluable experience and insight into this specialist area of nursing. Providing you with the opportunities to work across hospital and community settings in Northumberland and North Tyneside, with a multi discipline team approach.
The post-holder will have an interest of caring for patients with a variety of feeding tubes, such as PEGs and Naso-Gastric feeding tubes. The experienced and well-established team will support with competency development and confidence in this specialist area.
The post holder will work with colleagues and stake holders to identify areas for quality improvements to further develop pathways and they will train and care for patients living with enteral feeding tubes long term.
This is a great opportunity to develop knowledge and skills, working collaboratively with many specialities and members of the MDT.
We are a very supportive department and organisation, providing the successful candidate with all the training and support required.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
Your case load will include patients with all types of feeding tubes, across outpatient clinics, home visits, Emergency Department and hospital wards. Your focus will be to ensure that feeding tubes are the right choice for that patient, they are working and the patient knows how to look after them at home safely.
Day to day you will be responsible for routine and urgent replacement of feeding tubes e.g. when a tube has fallen out unexpectedly. This may include co-ordinating with teams across the Trust regarding admissions when needed.
You will work collaboratively with MDTs from different specialities, building up working relationships, to become the contact for feeding tube related issues.
The post holder will also assess training needs, updating training packages, resources and delivering training relating to enteral feeding tubes across Northumbria Trust as needed.
You will be an active member of the wider Nutrition and Dietetic team, and a role model for specialist Nursing and compassionate leadership.
About us
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide specialist nursing with a defined case load for enterally fed patients including the setting of standards of care, assessment of care needs and the development and implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.
- To act as a link between the MDT and other primary and secondary care providers to provide a seamless pathway of care to patients across all enteral services.
- Provide a nursing contribution to policy and clinical service development within the enteral service.
- Contribute to the Trust strategic nursing and AHP agenda.
- Act as a key point of contact to ensure timely care and treatment for all patients on a enteral pathway.
- Delivery of enteral assessment/review outpatient clinics.
- Support the Nutrition Nurse Lead and wider team in enteral feeding in clinics and management of a defined case load.
- Be proactive in identifying educational and development needs within the MDT and the wider Trust developing innovative and evidence based educational strategies.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust
- This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Job description
Job responsibilities
- Provide specialist nursing with a defined case load for enterally fed patients including the setting of standards of care, assessment of care needs and the development and implementation and evaluation of programmes of care.
- To act as a link between the MDT and other primary and secondary care providers to provide a seamless pathway of care to patients across all enteral services.
- Provide a nursing contribution to policy and clinical service development within the enteral service.
- Contribute to the Trust strategic nursing and AHP agenda.
- Act as a key point of contact to ensure timely care and treatment for all patients on a enteral pathway.
- Delivery of enteral assessment/review outpatient clinics.
- Support the Nutrition Nurse Lead and wider team in enteral feeding in clinics and management of a defined case load.
- Be proactive in identifying educational and development needs within the MDT and the wider Trust developing innovative and evidence based educational strategies.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust
- This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential
- 1 st Level live NMC Adult required Registered Nurse
- Registered Mentor
- Degree in nursing or related subject or equivalent level of nursing knowledge through in-depth experience
- Recognised teaching certificate for example ENB 998 or C&G 730, P126, P127
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- Relevant in depth post registration experience acquired through training from relevant acute work experience
- Evidence of practice development
- Evidence of innovation in practice
- Experience of undertaking an audit
- Current teaching experience
- Experience of collaborating with other multidisciplinary agencies
Desirable
- Experience of patients with enteral feeding
Other requirements
Essential
- Car driver - it is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Professional Registration
Essential
- 1 st Level live NMC Adult required Registered Nurse
- Registered Mentor
- Degree in nursing or related subject or equivalent level of nursing knowledge through in-depth experience
- Recognised teaching certificate for example ENB 998 or C&G 730, P126, P127
Experience and knowledge
Essential
- Relevant in depth post registration experience acquired through training from relevant acute work experience
- Evidence of practice development
- Evidence of innovation in practice
- Experience of undertaking an audit
- Current teaching experience
- Experience of collaborating with other multidisciplinary agencies
Desirable
- Experience of patients with enteral feeding
Other requirements
Essential
- Car driver - it is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
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).
