Job summary
- Main area
- Nutrition Nurse
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 318-25-T0606
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Trust wide (CGH and GRH)
- Town
- Gloucestershire
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 (pa pro rata if part-time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 17/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Nurse Nutrition Support Team, Band 7
Band 7
At Gloucestershire Hospitals, our people are at the heart of everything we do. As the largest employer in the county, we’re proud to provide outstanding acute, elective, and specialist services to over 650,000 people across our county. Whether you’re just beginning your NHS journey or taking the next step in your career, this is an exciting time to join us. We’re investing in innovation, research, and transformation, with over 100 active clinical studies and major developments underway across our two district hospitals.
You can expect a welcoming and supportive culture and you’ll be supported by passionate colleagues who care deeply about teamwork, development, and delivering exceptional care. We offer structured development programmes, mentoring, and leadership opportunities to help you grow in your career. Gloucestershire has the perfect mix of culture, countryside, and community. With excellent schools, transport links, and access to award-winning green spaces, it’s a great place to live and work.
We value the diversity of our workforce and are committed to creating an environment where everyone feels they belong.
Be part of Gloucestershire Hospitals, explore your future with us today.
Job overview
Specialist Nurse Nutrition Support Team - Band 7 (22.5 hours a week)
We are delighted to recruit a part-time Specialist Nurse into the Nutrition Support Team. This role gives you the opportunity to utilise and further develop your existing skills and experience.
Additional working pattern details: 22.5hrs over 3 days including a Wednesday
Main duties of the job
You will work as part of the multidisciplinary Nutrition Support Team (NST) to ensure that adults who require parenteral nutrition in our acute hospitals receive high quality, safe and effective care. This role involves patient assessment, clinical reasoning, clinical management planning and prescribing.
You will take part in NST ward rounds and weekly MDT meetings contributing to the clinical assessment and management of our patients.
You will ensure safe central venous catheter management which will include supporting the ward nursing teams
This is a permanent, part time job, working 22.5 hours per week, ideally over 3 week days. We have a flexible working policy in our Trust. You will be expected to work at both Cheltenham General and Gloucester Royal Hospitals and participate in our weekly multidisciplinary meeting, held each Wednesday.
This job involves travel between our two acute hospital sites and a free hospital shuttle bus is provided
Working for our organisation
We are a small friendly, diverse, multidisciplinary team who work closely together and with teams in our Trust and tertiary specialist centres to deliver high quality, safe and effective care for our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This Band 7 Nutrition Support Specialist Nurse position is a role for an approachable, enthusiastic and motivated nurse who has an interest in parenteral nutrition, experience of central venous catheters, with recent, relevant advanced practice or clinical specialist experience. We are looking for someone who has worked, or is working, in a nursing role in which clinical assessment, diagnosing and planning treatment are a core responsibility. This job would suit an experienced advanced practice or specialist level nurse who is keen to transfer their existing skills into a new, challenging role. Having advanced practice study modules at Master’s level is a requirements for this role. Being an independent, non-medical prescriber is desirable.
Applicants should be enthusiastic and motivated, have a passion for patient safety and quality improvement and a desire to further develop their nursing practice.
Additional Contact Details
Margaret Collins [email protected] (Specialist Nurse, Nutrition Support Team)
Laura Strong [email protected] (Specialist Nurse, Nutrition Support Team)
Person specification
Qualifications & Experience
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse The registration should be active and without any restrictions on the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register
- Educated to master’s level or has successfully completed master’s level, advanced practice modules
- Intravenous drug administration competency
- Evidence of ongoing professional development
- Have a genuine interest in parenteral nutrition/intestinal failure management with substantial relevant acute ward-based experience (or the equivalent)
- Experience of working as an autonomous practitioner using advanced clinical assessment and reasoning skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate patient management plans
- Experience of and confident in teaching other members of the multidisciplinary team
- Transferable knowledge of managing a relevant, clinical caseload. For example, management of acutely unwell adult patients, or currently working as a specialist/advanced practitioner in another specialty.
- Advanced communication skills: managing confrontational situations and patients, challenging poor practice
- Confident presentation skills and able to teach all grades of clinical staff in formal presentations and ward-based sessions
- Be competent in the use of all relevant Trust IT systems
- Enthusiastic with a passion for quality improvement
- Resilient & self-aware
- Reliable, adaptable and dependable
- Team focused, ability to work collaboratively and always underpinned by kindness and respect towards others
- Ability to inspire and motivate others
Desirable criteria
- Registered Non-medical prescriber
- Evidence of Quality Improvement work
- Advanced communication skills to liaise with outside agencies such as GPs, secondary and tertiary care centres
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Price
- Job title
- Team Lead Dietitian Nutrition Support Team
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 422 5506
- Additional information
[email protected] Specialist Nurse, Nutrition Support Team
[email protected] Specialist Nurse, Nutrition Support Team
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