Nutrition Support Worker inGuildford inGuildford PUBLISHED
FRI 10 JAN 2025
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust rwXukNVN
The position offers an opportunity to develop skills in a supportive environment under the guidance of experienced staff, contributing to the efficient delivery of nutrition services within the Trust. Ideal candidates will be those who enjoy challenges, can work autonomously, and are comfortable with patient interactions and IT systems. The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust prides itself on fostering a friendly and ambitious workplace, committed to professional growth and continuous improvement.
We have a very exciting opportunity to recruit a Band 3 Nutrition Support Worker into the existing team of Nutrition Support Sister's which is expanding here at Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust.The demand for our Nutrition service is increasing which is reflected in the need to expand the Nutrition Nurse Specialist Team. This role is to complement our current service, to help co-ordinate care, educate and support inpatients, oncology patients and those in our local community whom are living with enteral feeding tubes.It requires the successful candidate to have excellent communication skills to liaise and collaborate with all members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team and patients.The role is ideal for someone who has previous experience working with patients with feeding tubes or those with oncology experience. Those who enjoy a challenge, work autonomously and who feel comfortable with patients and I.T systems would benefit from applying.This role will be supported by the Nutrition Support CNS, Nutrition Support Sister's and Consultants across the specialities that use the service, also working closely with the Oncology teams at Royal Surrey as well as other regional centres across the St. Luke's Cancer Alliance, Gastroenterology Consultants, Surgical Teams and Nutrition Support Team.
The nutrition support worker will work as part of a team sharing responsibility for the smooth running of service in line with Trust performance targets. This post will support the nutrition nurses with the day-to-day care of both inpatients and outpatients including taking / responding to telephone calls, emails and healthcare professional concerns, supporting in the administration tasks such as booking procedures and maintaining the team's database. There will be opportunities to develop patient facing skills with support such as simple wound dressings of feeding tubes and patient education involving the enteral feeding pumps. The post holder will support in coordinating care by providing a single point of contact for patients, including rapid re-entry into the system for those people identified as having urgent or specialist needs.
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Under the direction, guidance and supervision of the Nutrition Clinical Nurse Specialists and the surrounding Nutrition Support Sisters the post holder will provide essential co-ordination of care for patients receiving artificial nutrition across the acute trust and Royal Surrey Cancer Centre. They will be crucial in contributing to the overall effective running of the service.
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