Clinical Nurse Specialist - Nutrition

Job overview

We are recruiting for a Clinical Nurse Specialist in Nutrition who wishes to join #TeamIOWNHS. You should share our passion and drive to ensure that our patients receive quality and compassionate care and work with us to ensure the Trust continues its journey towards “great people, great place”.

Main duties of the job

Attached you will find the person specification document which provides more detail about the essential and desirable skills and experience needed for this role. We highly recommend you review this document and use it when completing your application as these criteria are used by hiring managers as guidance during shortlisting.

For an overview of the main duties of the role please see the 'Job Description and Main Responsibilities' section below. To understand the day-to-day responsibilities in more detail please read the full job description document attached.

We are passionate about providing excellent CARE, which is why our values are Compassion, Accountable, Respect and Everyone counts. Our mission is to make sure that our community is at the heart of everything we do and that we hold our values across all our services.

We are committed to endorsing inclusion, diversity and multiculturalism throughout out services and as such, our procedures and policies ensure that applicants are always treated fairly throughout the recruitment process.

Why not come and see for yourself the CARE we give to our patients and staff. Apply to be part of our team today.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Clinical Nutrition Nurse Specialist supports patients on the Isle of Wight with issues related to nutritional nursing assessment, the management of enteral feeding and management of inpatient parenteral nutrition as part of a MDT.

Provide a seamless enteral feeding access service across primary and secondary care, working closely with colleagues in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation (HIOW) Trust.

Nurse led service to inpatient wards for enteral feeding access, planned weekly home enteral nutrition (HEN) clinic for outpatients and provide support to the emergency department and community colleagues to avoid acute admission