Job summary
Are you enthusiastic? Innovative? An advocate for patients? If so....
We are seeking a dynamic, self-motivated and experienced Nutrition Nurse Team Leader for Learning Disabilities to work alongside our award-winning community Nutrition Nurse team. This role will lead a team of nurses caring for learning disability patients with enteral feeding tubes in Birmingham.
Main duties of the job
This role will involve supporting learning disability patients and their carers with enteral feeding tubes in their own homes, and community care settings. You will also be supporting your team, the Learning Disability Division, the wider Trust, carers and other agencies to develop their knowledge and practice in the care of enteral feeding tubes.
About us
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
The Nutrition Nurse Team Leader for Learning Disabilities will lead, coordinate and develop the provision of a specialist learning disability nutrition nursing service within Birmingham. They will provide clinical leadership for and co-ordinate the service provided by the LD Nutrition Support Nurses. Your role will involve liaising with the Learning Disability multidisciplinary team as a clinical expert in order to provide effective care for enteral feeding patients.
The LD Nutrition Nurse Team liaises closely with acute units, enteral feeding companies, colleges, day centres, respite units, community hospitals and nursing homes in relation to home enteral feeding discharges, assessment for initiation of enteral feeding, direct patient care and staff training.
The successful post holder should therefore have extensive experience in enteral feeding. As this post is specifically to support patients with learning disabilities, experience of working with this client group will also be advantageous.
Good communication is essential as you will be expected to communicate effectively with multidisciplinary teams across the trust and with other professionals working in the community.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The Nutrition Nurse Team Leader for Learning Disabilities will lead, coordinate and develop the provision of a specialist learning disability nutrition nursing service within Birmingham. They will provide clinical leadership for and co-ordinate the service provided by the LD Nutrition Support Nurses. Your role will involve liaising with the Learning Disability multidisciplinary team as a clinical expert in order to provide effective care for enteral feeding patients.
The LD Nutrition Nurse Team liaises closely with acute units, enteral feeding companies, colleges, day centres, respite units, community hospitals and nursing homes in relation to home enteral feeding discharges, assessment for initiation of enteral feeding, direct patient care and staff training.
The successful post holder should therefore have extensive experience in enteral feeding. As this post is specifically to support patients with learning disabilities, experience of working with this client group will also be advantageous.
Good communication is essential as you will be expected to communicate effectively with multidisciplinary teams across the trust and with other professionals working in the community.
Person Specification
Qualifications and training
Essential
- oRegistered Nurse Adult/Child/LD
- oDegree in Nursing
- oEvidence of recent Post Basic Clinical Training
- oEvidence of further study / training within enteral feeding
Desirable
- oENB 998/City and Guilds 730 or similar teaching qualification preferred
- oNurse prescribing
Experience
Essential
- oExtensive post registration experience at a band 6 level including within speciality of enteral feeding
- oExperience with caring for adults with a learning disability
- oEvidence of multidisciplinary working
- oExperience of policy development and implementation
Skills / Knowledge
Essential
- oAbility to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of up to date evidence based clinical trends and practices
- oAbility to teach relatives, clients and staff across all areas of nutritional and nursing practice
- oUnderstanding of the needs of ethnic minority clients/carers
- oKnowledge of current guidance and legislation
- oAbility to generate written communication which is relevant, concise, accurate and legible
- oAbility to use information technology to maximise personal and service effectiveness
- oAbility to challenge performance and provide constructive feedback
- oExcellent Time management
Desirable
- oAbility to demonstrate individual and team responsibility in respect to Health and Safety.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- oAbility to demonstrate a commitment to team working
- oAn ability to be very flexible in a changing environment
- oAbility to learn and apply knowledge appropriately
- oAbility to organise oneself and others
- oAbility to lead strategically in the development of the LD Nutrition nursing service
- oAbility to work across a number of teams using tact and diplomacy
- oAble to display strong skills in negotiation, persuasion and resolving conflict
Other requirements
Essential
- oNeed to be independently mobile with requirements to transport equipment necessary for the role
Person Specification
Qualifications and training
Essential
- oRegistered Nurse Adult/Child/LD
- oDegree in Nursing
- oEvidence of recent Post Basic Clinical Training
- oEvidence of further study / training within enteral feeding
Desirable
- oENB 998/City and Guilds 730 or similar teaching qualification preferred
- oNurse prescribing
Experience
Essential
- oExtensive post registration experience at a band 6 level including within speciality of enteral feeding
- oExperience with caring for adults with a learning disability
- oEvidence of multidisciplinary working
- oExperience of policy development and implementation
Skills / Knowledge
Essential
- oAbility to demonstrate sound knowledge and application of up to date evidence based clinical trends and practices
- oAbility to teach relatives, clients and staff across all areas of nutritional and nursing practice
- oUnderstanding of the needs of ethnic minority clients/carers
- oKnowledge of current guidance and legislation
- oAbility to generate written communication which is relevant, concise, accurate and legible
- oAbility to use information technology to maximise personal and service effectiveness
- oAbility to challenge performance and provide constructive feedback
- oExcellent Time management
Desirable
- oAbility to demonstrate individual and team responsibility in respect to Health and Safety.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- oAbility to demonstrate a commitment to team working
- oAn ability to be very flexible in a changing environment
- oAbility to learn and apply knowledge appropriately
- oAbility to organise oneself and others
- oAbility to lead strategically in the development of the LD Nutrition nursing service
- oAbility to work across a number of teams using tact and diplomacy
- oAble to display strong skills in negotiation, persuasion and resolving conflict
Other requirements
Essential
- oNeed to be independently mobile with requirements to transport equipment necessary for 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).
