We are seeking a proactive Registered Nurse with strong expertise in all aspects of enteral feeding to join our Birmingham Community Nutrition leadership team. You will use your clinical knowledge, safeguarding awareness, and understanding of enteral feeding products to support safe governance of the enteral feeding service and budget for over a thousand patients across Birmingham. Working closely with neighbourhood teams, you will help facilitate safe discharge, prevent hospital admissions, and enable device changes within patients’ homes.
This new role will be Safeguarding lead for the service and provide supervision and training for the adult nutrition nurse team, coordinating clinical cover and ensuring staff have the skills and equipment needed for effective caseload management.
At Birmingham Community Nutrition, we deliver exceptional care, closer to home and value staff wellbeing. This is a unique opportunity to lead, innovation, support complex cases, and contribute to consistent, high-quality service delivery across the trust.
Provide leadership to
the nutrition nurse team and the wider trust on enteral feeding equipment, it will monitor and assess new entrants to the market and the cost-effective solutions to nutritional care.
Work on complex clinical cases, leveraging your
expert knowledge of Nutrition nursing and
safeguarding policy to support vulnerable patients.
Work alongside the service lead to provide a coordinated approach to leadership to ensure consistency and excellence across the service.
The Postholder Will Provide Visible Clinical And Professional Leadership For Identified Pathways And The Nurses Within The BCHC Nutrition Nursing Service Including
- Children and Families
- Learning Disabilities
ASR
They will also be responsible for line managing the administration staff who support this process.
To work with the Service Clinical Managers (SCMs) to ensure safe and effective clinical delivery of pathways, including triage, MDT/panel discussion and safe discharge from the pathways, providing support to staff with delegated clinical responsibility for any aspects of this.
To lead on clinical change and work with the SCMs and Clinical Nurse Specialists to implement.
Full duties please see JD.
Birmingham Community Nutrition provides a comprehensive community citywide service