Job summary
Are you a passionate and patient focused Registered Nurse, with experience or a keen interest in Enteral Nutrition?
We are looking for a registered nurse who has the ability to work autonomously within the community and hospital setting supporting our patients and working in partnership with our NHS colleagues.
Come and join our expanding enteral nursing service within Fresenius Kabi:
- This role is a fixed term contract for 15 months
- This role will be full-time based in Somerset, working 35 hours, Monday - Friday, 8am - 6pm
- The role is field based across Somerset.
- The starting salary for this position is £36,584, plus an annual bonus of £1,126 and a company car/car allowance
- Full training and a developmental programme are available with support from our accredited nurse educators
Our nursing service offers:
Expertise in both enteral and parenteral nutrition, allowing us to support every step of a patients nutritional care journey.
The national team of more than 350 nurses is focused on identifying and understanding the needs of our patients to provide truly human care and support.
Main duties of the job
If this is the role for you, your responsibilities will include:
- Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to aid the facilitation of a safe discharge and ongoing care of our enterally fed patients
- Directly liaising with Dietitians and Nutritional teams to manage the care and nutritional support of our patients within the community
- Responsible for the training of our enterally fed patients, families and carers
- Managing a patient caseload, providing ongoing support in the community for patients, carers and healthcare professionals
- Regular patient visits may include the care of Naso gastric tubes, gastrostomy tubes, pumps and advice
- Working within the NMC Code of Conduct and professional practice
About us
Fresenius Kabi is a global healthcare company that specialises in lifesaving medicines and technologies for infusion, transfusion and clinical nutrition. The company's products and services are used to help care for critically and chronically ill patients.
Our product portfolio comprises a comprehensive range of I.V. generic drugs, infusion therapies and clinical nutrition products as well as the medical devices for administering these products.
Job description
Job responsibilities
If this is the role for you, your responsibilities will include:
- Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to aid the facilitation of a safe discharge and ongoing care of our enterally fed patients
- Directly liaising with Dietitians and Nutritional teams to manage the care and nutritional support of our patients within the community
- Responsible for the training of our enterally fed patients, families and carers
- Managing a patient caseload, providing ongoing support in the community for patients, carers and healthcare professionals
- Regular patient visits may include the care of Naso gastric tubes, gastrostomy tubes, pumps and advice
- Working within the NMC Code of Conduct and professional practice
Job description
Job responsibilities
If this is the role for you, your responsibilities will include:
- Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team to aid the facilitation of a safe discharge and ongoing care of our enterally fed patients
- Directly liaising with Dietitians and Nutritional teams to manage the care and nutritional support of our patients within the community
- Responsible for the training of our enterally fed patients, families and carers
- Managing a patient caseload, providing ongoing support in the community for patients, carers and healthcare professionals
- Regular patient visits may include the care of Naso gastric tubes, gastrostomy tubes, pumps and advice
- Working within the NMC Code of Conduct and professional practice
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications and requirements:
- Registered Nurse with a current and valid NMC registration
- A minimum of 1-year post-registration clinical experience
- Driving licence
- Ability to work in a one-to-one patient environment and conduct interactions with confidence and professionalism
- Flexible and adaptable to the changing needs of the business
- Excellent time management skills and the ability to manage own workload
- Benefits
- Private healthcare
- Contributory Pension Scheme (rises with service)
- Role specific tailored training and development plan
- Life Insurance (4 x salary, death in service)
- 25 days holiday (rises to 27 after 5 years service) and ability to buy/sell holidays
- Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave
- Professional fees paid
- Bike to work scheme
- Long Service Awards
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Free onsite parking and subsidised canteen
- Blue Light Card
- Company funded family days out
- We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Qualifications and requirements:
- Registered Nurse with a current and valid NMC registration
- A minimum of 1-year post-registration clinical experience
- Driving licence
- Ability to work in a one-to-one patient environment and conduct interactions with confidence and professionalism
- Flexible and adaptable to the changing needs of the business
- Excellent time management skills and the ability to manage own workload
- Benefits
- Private healthcare
- Contributory Pension Scheme (rises with service)
- Role specific tailored training and development plan
- Life Insurance (4 x salary, death in service)
- 25 days holiday (rises to 27 after 5 years service) and ability to buy/sell holidays
- Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave
- Professional fees paid
- Bike to work scheme
- Long Service Awards
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Free onsite parking and subsidised canteen
- Blue Light Card
- Company funded family days out
- We are proud to foster a workplace free from discrimination. Diversity of experience, perspectives, and background create a better work environment and better products. Whatever your identity, we will give your application fair consideration.
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.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
