The Christie NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Nutrition Support Nurse
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Exciting Opportunity for a Specialist Nutrition Support Nurse
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and driven registered nurse to join our Specialist Nutrition Support Nurse team (band 6, 37.5hrs/week), as part of the Christie nutrition and dietetic team in our world-class cancer centre, providing an opportunity to develop your practice within this specialist area of nursing.
If you are passionate and have an interest or experience of working within nutrition and/or oncology, and experience of varied feeding tubes, such as gastrostomies, nasogastric tubes, nasojejunal tubes and want to develop your skills further, then this is the post for you. The experienced and well-established team will support competency and confidence development for this specialist role.
Role Overview
As a member of the Specialist Nutrition Support Nurse team, you will work closely with the dietetic team, and, as well as collaborate with the wider MDT and stakeholders, to deliver high-quality patient-centred care for patients requiring artificial nutrition.
As a band 6 Specialist Nutrition Support Nurse you will work within the team to provide a specialist nutrition support nurse service for patients aimed at continually improving standards of care and facilitating a multidisciplinary team approach.
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Key Responsibilities
- Participate in the nurse management of patients receiving artificial nutrition support via enteral feeding, utilising both gastrostomies, jejunostomies, nasogastric and nasojejunal routes.
- Support patients through the HPN (Home Parenteral nutrition) referral process, and provision of venting gastrojejunostomy support for some of these patients.
- Ensure the nutritional needs of patients are met, providing counselling, tube training, tube placement/replacement, follow-up/aftercare for patients receiving artificial nutrition support.
- Support the gastrostomy drop clinic in conjunction with the nursing team.
- Work alongside the specialist nutrition support nurse team in the development and delivery of education and training programmes for healthcare professionals in the Trust and at regional level on nursing-related nutritional care.
- Be an active member of the wider Nutrition and Dietetic team, and an active role model for the service.
- Work closely with the wider MDT and external agencies to ensure national nutritional performance and clinical standards are met.
About The Christie
The Christie is one of Europe’s leading cancer centres, looking after more than 64,000 patients a year. We are based in Manchester and serve a population of 3.2 million across Greater Manchester & Cheshire, but as a national specialist around 25% patients are referred to us from other parts of the country.
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We are the largest radiotherapy provider in the NHS with one in 20 treatments delivered at The Christie. We have up to 15 linear accelerators operating across our network of sites. We operate the largest chemotherapy unit in the UK on our main site and treatments are also provided at 13 other networked sites, and in patients homes. And as a specialist tertiary surgical centre, we focus on rare cancers, complex procedures, and multidisciplinary approaches to cancer surgery, specialising in colorectal, peritoneal, gynaecological, urological and plastic surgery.
We are also an international leader in research, with world first breakthroughs for over 100 years. We have been named by the UK’s National Institute for Health Research (NIHR), as one of the best hospitals providing opportunities for patients to participate in clinical research studies, with more than 800 studies open at any time, caring for over 3,000 patients.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Fiona Brennan
- Job title: Senior Specialist Nutrition Support Nurse
- Email address: fiona.brennan@nhs.net
- Telephone number: 0161 446 8516
0161 44603729
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