Job summary
We are seeking a proactive Registered Nurse with strong expertise in all aspects of enteral feeding to join our Birmingham Community Nutrition leadership team. You will use your clinical knowledge, safeguarding awareness, and understanding of enteral feeding products to support safe governance of the enteral feeding service and budget for over a thousand patients across Birmingham. Working closely with neighbourhood teams, you will help facilitate safe discharge, prevent hospital admissions, and enable device changes within patients' homes.
This new role will be Safeguarding lead for the service and provide supervision and training for the adult nutrition nurse team, coordinating clinical cover and ensuring staff have the skills and equipment needed for effective caseload management.
At Birmingham Community Nutrition, we deliver exceptional care, closer to home and value staff wellbeing. This is a unique opportunity to lead, innovation, support complex cases, and contribute to consistent, high-quality service delivery across the trust.
Main duties of the job
Provide leadership tothe nutrition nurse team and the wider trust on enteral feeding equipment, it will monitor and assess new entrants to the market and the cost-effective solutions to nutritional care.
Work on complex clinical cases, leveraging your expert knowledge of Nutrition nursing and safeguarding policy to support vulnerable patients.
Work alongside the service lead to provide a coordinated approach to leadership to ensure consistency and excellence across the service.
The postholder will provide visible clinical and professional leadership for identified pathways and the nurses within the BCHC Nutrition Nursing Service including:
o Children and Families
o Learning Disabilities
ASR
They will also be responsible for line managing the administration staff who support this process.
To work with the Service Clinical Managers (SCMs) to ensure safe and effective clinical delivery of pathways, including triage, MDT/panel discussion and safe discharge from the pathways, providing support to staff with delegated clinical responsibility for any aspects of this.
To lead on clinical change and work with the SCMs and Clinical Nurse Specialists to implement.
Full duties please see JD.
About us
Birmingham Community Nutrition provides a comprehensive community citywide service for the Birmingham CCG and employs over 70 staff. We also support the training of dietetic students from two higher education institutions (A, B & C placements).
Benefits of working for Birmingham Community Nutrition include free parking at all community venues, excellent access to IT equipment to work remotely, up to date office facilities and comprehensive admin support dedicated to the service.
The department has a structured approach to Clinical Governance and your personal development via preceptorship, annual appraisals, clinical supervision and training opportunities. Career development, flexible working and staff support are given high priority in the Trust, whose goal is to be a truly inclusive organisation and a great place to work.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To maintain and build on effective partnership working arrangements within the city, including Neighbourhood teams, Community Care Collaborative staff, Commissioners and external companies, to support and develop integrated service delivery.
To advise, guide and engage in care planning relevant to nutrition nursing.
To make a significant overall contribution to service development, ensuring that the service is up to date and fit for purpose, writing and developing processes, standards and policies as necessary.
To ensure that clinical objectives are set for the pathways, which incorporate the Divisional and Trust objectives, maximise opportunities for integrated working and consider local needs, issues and access.
To be responsible for standard setting, guidelines and policies, to ensure that they are current and adhere to a high standard, including implementation of NICE guidelines.
Full duties please see JD.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To maintain and build on effective partnership working arrangements within the city, including Neighbourhood teams, Community Care Collaborative staff, Commissioners and external companies, to support and develop integrated service delivery.
To advise, guide and engage in care planning relevant to nutrition nursing.
To make a significant overall contribution to service development, ensuring that the service is up to date and fit for purpose, writing and developing processes, standards and policies as necessary.
To ensure that clinical objectives are set for the pathways, which incorporate the Divisional and Trust objectives, maximise opportunities for integrated working and consider local needs, issues and access.
To be responsible for standard setting, guidelines and policies, to ensure that they are current and adhere to a high standard, including implementation of NICE guidelines.
Full duties please see JD.
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Training
Essential
- Degree in Nursing and current professional registration
- Relevant Masters degree or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Management or leadership qualification or equivalent level of experience.
- Evidence of continuing professional development, relevant to nutrition nursing and enteral feeding.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working in the field of Nutrition Nursing and Enteral Feeding.
- Extensive experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team and with other agencies.
- Significant experience of staff support/management.
- Experience of coordinating a service and developing policies for the service.
- Relevant experience of engagement of people who are socially excluded, disabled or disadvantaged.
- Experience of Safeguarding.
Desirable
- Significant experience of Enteral Feeding Contracts including liaison with NHS partners and external agencies.
Skills / Knowledge
Essential
- Highly developed knowledge within the field of Nutrition Nursing and Enteral Feeding.
- Experience of, and the ability to, provide staff with clinical supervision and assessment of clinical practice.
- Knowledge and understanding of Equality and Diversity issues.
- Competent in clinical leadership skills and the ability to lead change.
- Sound understanding of the priorities and financial climate of the NHS.
- Knowledge of enteral feeding strategies/working policies and guidelines.
- Good working knowledge of the principles of Clinical Governance, and of risk and performance management.
- Knowledge of workforce planning, recruitment and retention processes.
- Problem solving skills.
- Competent in use of IT systems and processes relevant to the area of work.
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of the goals, vision and values of the Division and the Trust.
Personal qualities
Essential
- Proven written and oral communication skills, including the ability to deal with challenging and sensitive situations.
- Commitment to staff development and training.
- Ability to prioritise and meet tight deadlines
- Has identified method of effectively dealing with pressure and demands of role.
- Demonstrates flexibility and ability to work in a changing and challenging environment.
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills.
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of the goals, vision and values of the Division and the Trust.
Other Job requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel around the Trust as required
Person Specification
Qualifications/ Training
Essential
- Degree in Nursing and current professional registration
- Relevant Masters degree or equivalent level of experience of working at a senior level in specialist area.
- Management or leadership qualification or equivalent level of experience.
- Evidence of continuing professional development, relevant to nutrition nursing and enteral feeding.
Desirable
Experience
Essential
- Extensive experience of working in the field of Nutrition Nursing and Enteral Feeding.
- Extensive experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team and with other agencies.
- Significant experience of staff support/management.
- Experience of coordinating a service and developing policies for the service.
- Relevant experience of engagement of people who are socially excluded, disabled or disadvantaged.
- Experience of Safeguarding.
Desirable
- Significant experience of Enteral Feeding Contracts including liaison with NHS partners and external agencies.
Skills / Knowledge
Essential
- Highly developed knowledge within the field of Nutrition Nursing and Enteral Feeding.
- Experience of, and the ability to, provide staff with clinical supervision and assessment of clinical practice.
- Knowledge and understanding of Equality and Diversity issues.
- Competent in clinical leadership skills and the ability to lead change.
- Sound understanding of the priorities and financial climate of the NHS.
- Knowledge of enteral feeding strategies/working policies and guidelines.
- Good working knowledge of the principles of Clinical Governance, and of risk and performance management.
- Knowledge of workforce planning, recruitment and retention processes.
- Problem solving skills.
- Competent in use of IT systems and processes relevant to the area of work.
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of the goals, vision and values of the Division and the Trust.
Personal qualities
Essential
- Proven written and oral communication skills, including the ability to deal with challenging and sensitive situations.
- Commitment to staff development and training.
- Ability to prioritise and meet tight deadlines
- Has identified method of effectively dealing with pressure and demands of role.
- Demonstrates flexibility and ability to work in a changing and challenging environment.
- Strong influencing and negotiation skills.
Desirable
- Knowledge and understanding of the goals, vision and values of the Division and the Trust.
Other Job requirements
Essential
- Ability to travel around the Trust as required
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).
