Job summary

Join our specialist Nutrition Support Team and make a lasting impact on patients' everyday lives. This exciting Band 6 Nutrition Specialist Nurse role offers the opportunity to develop highly specialised skills in enteral and parenteral nutrition while working alongside expert clinicians across a range of healthcare settings.

Working as part of a highly skilled multidisciplinary team, you will play a pivotal role in supporting patients requiring specialist nutritional support, helping them achieve the best possible outcomes and quality of life. You will provide expert clinical care, education and support to patients, families and healthcare professionals, ensuring safe, effective and patient-centred nutritional care.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop advanced clinical skills, contribute to service improvement initiatives, and help shape the future of nutrition services within our organisation. We are looking for a nurse who is compassionate, proactive and committed to delivering outstanding care.

In return, we offer a supportive environment, access to specialist training and development opportunities, and the chance to work within a respected specialist service that values innovation, collaboration and excellence.

If you are ready to take the next step in your nursing career and become part of a team dedicated to improving patient outcomes through specialist nutrition support, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties and Responsibilities

• Deliver specialist nursing care for patients requiring enteral and parenteral nutrition support across inpatient and community settings.
• Assess, plan, implement and evaluate complex nutrition support programmes, ensuring safe, evidence-based and patient-centred care.
• Provide expert advice, education and support to patients, families, carers and healthcare professionals.
• Manage and troubleshoot feeding tubes, central venous access devices and nutrition-related complications.
• Support patients transitioning from hospital to home, coordinating discharge planning and ongoing care arrangements.
• Work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, including consultants, dietitians, pharmacists, community teams and primary care colleagues.
• Contribute to the development and delivery of nutrition-related education and training programmes across the Trust and externally.
• Participate in service development, quality improvement, audit, research and clinical governance activities to enhance patient outcomes and service delivery.
• Develop and maintain clinical guidelines, policies and protocols relating to artificial nutrition support.
• Manage a varied caseload autonomously while ensuring patients are reviewed within agreed standards and timescales.

About us

Join us at the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital and be part of a workforce of over 10,000 staff!

The NNUH is one of the largest NHS trusts in the UK, providing first-class acute care for around one million people, living in Norfolk and surrounding areas. We are a teaching and research hospital, at the forefront of innovation, home to state-of-the-art facilities, such as the Quadram Institute. We are pleased to work closely with the University of East Anglia, providing teaching opportunities for our staff and placement opportunities for their students. We attract some of the best and leading professionals from across the country and are proud that our workforce represents 94 countries from across the world.

We are a friendly, collaborative hospital, working with local services and home to N&N Hospitals Charity.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Flexible working hours
• Fast Track Staff Physiotherapy Service
• Multi Faith prayer room at NNUH Colney Lane site
• Discounted gym memberships
• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement
• Wagestream - access up to 40% of your pay as you earn it
• Free Park & Ride service direct to NNUH Colney Lane site
• Free 24-hours confidential counselling support
• On-site Nursery at NNUH Colney Lane
• On-site cafes offering staff discounts at NNUH Colney Lane
• Support in career development
• Flexible staff bank
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including lease cars, Cycle to Work scheme and home electronics