Clinical Nurse Specialist - Childrens Nutrition

Job description

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will:

• Be based at Nottingham Children's Hospital, working collaboratively within the multi-professional paediatric nutrition team to deliver advanced nursing care to children and young people.
• Act as a strong and visible clinical leader, easily identifiable and accessible to patients, families, and staff, providing expert guidance and support.
• Provide leadership within the Children and Young People's Nutrition Team, taking responsibility for appraisals, professional development, supervision, and ensuring compliance with mandatory training.
• Oversee the day-to-day operational management of the service, working as an integral part of the PGHAN (Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition) team.
• Work alongside the consultant PGHAN team to contribute to the strategic development, commissioning, and strengthening of clinical networks for paediatric nutrition.
• Collaborate with the wider nutrition MDT and nurse educators to support the development of Trust-wide policy and best practice in nutrition. This includes building strong relationships with ward-based nutrition link nurses and leading audit activity to evaluate and improve current practice.
• Promote and advance patient-centred care, ensuring a collaborative and holistic approach with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
• Manage an allocated caseload, providing specialist assessment, planning, and ongoing review of children with complex nutritional needs.
• Play a key role in service development, offering education, advice, and support to patients, families, and professionals involved in the care of children requiring complex nutrition, including parenteral nutrition (PN).
• Exercise a high level of autonomy and clinical decision-making, demonstrating advanced practice skills within the specialty.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Registered Nurse Child
• BSc/BA in nursing
• Demonstrable teaching qualification
• Able to effectively coordinate care for children with long term conditions
• Significant experience in gastroentrology and nutrition

Desirable criteria

• Non medical prescriber

Communication and Relationship

Essential criteria

• Evidence of initiating and implementing change effectively in response to clinical or organisational demands.
• Able to present and receive relevant clinical information to or from a multi-professional audience.

Desirable criteria

• Good team building skills able to demonstrate how to motivate and lead.

Planning and Organising

Essential criteria

• Evidence of leadership experience.
• Able to develop, implement and monitor local protocols and objectives.
• Able to organise own workload.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at the NUH we will endeavour to turn your job into a career!

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

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