Job summary
- Main area
- Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 193-8285565PCG
- Employer
- Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Berkshire Hospital
- Town
- Reading
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/10/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Lead Nurse for Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
NHS AfC: Band 8a
At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust we put our patients at the heart of every element of health and care that we provide. The Trust works together as a community to deliver its vision which is “Working together to provide outstanding care for our community.”
Royal Berkshire Hospital are pleased to announce that following our CQC inspection we have been rated ‘Good’ with inspectors reporting that we have made significant improvements. The Trust’s overall rating has also improved to ‘good’.
We are Compassionate in our thoughts, words and actions
We are Aspirational and have a true desire to be dynamic and to innovate
We are Resourceful and responsible in the way we work and live
We are Excellent in our development, fairness and sharing best practice
At the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust, we value candidates who bring their unique personalities, skills, and experiences to the Trust. When completing your application, we encourage you to highlight your individual achievements and strengths, showing us how they align with the requirements outlined in the job description and person specification. While we recognise that some applicants may use AI tools during the process, please be mindful that AI-generated responses can often lack the personal detail and relevance needed to demonstrate your suitability for the role. AI generated content is discouraged by the Trust and may diminish the candidates chances of success.
Amazing things happen at the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust; delivered by amazing people so why don’t you come and join us. We offer a range of learning and development for all employees may you be clinical or non-clinical.
Please note: all vacancies automatically close when 50 applications have been received.
Job overview
Band 8A Lead Nurse for Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition
PLEASE NOTE: Sponsorship is not normally available for this vacancy - applicants must have the right-to-work in the UK for this role by their proposed start date.
To work with the multidisciplinary specialist nutrition team to ensure complex patients receive parenteral and enteral nutrition where indicated.
The Lead Nurse role will ensure line management of 2 enteral band 7 nurses and 1 parenteral nutrition nurse. Within the nutrition team there are 2 Gastroenterology Consultants a pharmacist and a dietician.
Main duties of the job
- Supporting approximately 60 home patients on IV fluids and Home Parenteral Nutrition including prescriptions.
- Involves liaising with commercial home care companies (x 4) for home patient reviews and service review meetings.
- Managing the enteral nursing team.
- Supporting complex nutrition patient MDT's.
- Liaising with other HPN centres (RBH is one of 22 HPN centres).
- Managing IF Database and supporting national data submissions.
- Supporting other local hospitals e.g.RSCH, Basingstoke, Frimley, with HPN remote discharges.
- Daily inpatient PN ward rounds (leading the team during Consultant absence).
- Supporting general nutrition within the hospital e.g. Nutrition Steering Committee (NSC); dietitians and MUST scoring; fluid balance, etc.
Working for our organisation
Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our Trust "CARE" values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Resourceful, Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the job role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Nurse (Pt 1/12) ((RSCN (Pt 8) if appropriate)) educated to a minimum of 1st degree level, or able to demonstrate evidence that working towards
- ENB 998/Slice, C&G 730, or equivalent
- Demonstrable management experience / Leadership and/or specialist knowledge
Desirable criteria
- Postgraduate management/further study qualification i.e. MSc or MA
- Advanced Assessment Skills of the patient; Non-medical prescriber; MSc Clinical Nutrition
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post-qualification with recent clinical, leadership and managerial experience at minimum of band 7 AfC
- Evidence of highly developed specialist knowledge and formal training in field
- Experienced in meeting requirements of Quality Assurance Framework for the Service
- Experience in facilitation, teaching, assessing, and coaching
- Experienced in Audit Process
- Understanding and experience of challenges and solutions to meeting access targets
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Julie Boxley
- Job title
- Matron in Abdominal Surgery
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0118 322 8792
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