Main area Nutrition Nurse Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Fixed term: 18 months (FTC until 31.03.2028) Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
37.5 hours per week Job ref 179-8326106-I
Employer West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site West Suffolk Hospital Town Bury St Edmunds Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 23/11/2026 23:59
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
We are a department of 43 Dietitians, Nurses, Dietetic Assistants and Administratorsproviding an integrated dietetic service to the West Suffolk Hospital and the wider community. The West Suffolk Dietetic service is a forward thinking, innovative department that is currently involved in several large-scale service development projects that aim to improve patient care and showcase the value of dietetics. We fully support and encourage professional development opportunities within our service.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be required to see patients in a variety of settings including Hospital and Community across the West Suffolk area to support patient with artificial nutrition. They will work as part of the Nutrition Nursing team consisting of B7 lead Nutrition Nurse and B6 Nutrition Support Nurse. The team works alongside a B7 Lead Home Enteral Feed Dietitian and Dietetic Support Workers to support patients requiring home enteral feeding. The successful candidate must be proactive and be able to problem solve. Experience of working in Home Enteral Feeding is advantageous, but training is available and the successful candidate will be fully supported by the Nutrition Nursing team.
Please see job description and personal specification for further details.
Working for our organisation
#BeKnown at West Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust. By us. By our patients. By our community
We are a busy, friendly, rural NHS Trust providing high-quality care and compassion to more than a quarter of a million people across west Suffolk. We care for, treat and support people in hospital, at home and in various community settings.
The West Suffolk Hospital in Bury St Edmunds provides acute and secondary care services (emergency department, maternity and neonatal services, day surgery unit, eye treatment centre, Macmillan unit and children's ward). It has 500+ beds and is a partner teaching hospital of the University of Cambridge.
Adult and paediatric community services, provided in collaboration with West Suffolk Alliance partners, include a range of nursing, therapy, specialist, and ongoing temporary care and rehabilitation, some at our Newmarket Community Hospital.
We do our utmost to achieve outstanding clinical outcomes for patients and our values of fairness, inclusivity, respect, safety and team work guide how we work and behave as a team.
With nearly 5,000 staff, from all over the world, we strive to make our organisation a great place to work. Whatever your role or ambition, we want to help you be the best you can be.
We promote a diverse and inclusive community where everyones voice counts and you can #BeKnown for whoever you are.
Join us. What will you #BeKnown for?
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further details around the main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
- RGN Part 1 or 12 PR
- Educated to degree level or equivalent health professional qualification.
- Evidence of ongoing professional development.
- NNNG membership
- Teaching course/qualification within a clinical setting.
Experience and knowledge
- Experience of nutritional support and enteral tube feeding.
- Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team.
- Understanding of the roles and responsibilities of other disciplines within the team.
- Experience of audit and research.
- Experience and ability to place NGT/balloon gastrostomies.
- Understanding of legal and ethical issues associated with nutrition support.
Skills and abilities
- Computer competent to write documents.
- Knowledge of nutritional support and enteral tube feeding methods and practice.
- Able to work autonomously and manage own workload.
- Able to work as part of a team.
- Excellent verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Able to communicate wide ranging, complex and sensitive information to clients, carers and professional colleagues.
- Ability to negotiate.
- Aware of limitations within role.
- PowerPoint, Excel and Microsoft Office
- Ability to operate a feeding pump and equipment
- Keen to put patient care at the heart of work to improve outcomes and service delivery
- Motivated to deliver the highest possible standards and quality outcomes.
- Confident to encourage others to develop themselves and the service through improvement, innovation and continuous development.
- Able to work effectively in conjunction with others (patients, colleagues, families) to contribute to the delivery of high-quality healthcare.
- Responsive to change and able to adapt.
- Flexible and reliable approach to working duties
- Frequent Travel Essential - You will need to travel, so you must either hold a full, current driving licence and have access to personal transport or meet the mobility requirements of the role through other reasonable and suitable means.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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