Job summary
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.
Details
- Date posted: 09 October 2026
- Closing date: 18 October 2026
- Pay scheme: Agenda for change
- Band: Band 8a
- Salary: £57,528 to £64,750 a year per annum
- Contract: Permanent
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Reference number: 193-8285565PCG
- Job locations: Royal Berkshire Hospital, London Road, Reading, RG1 5AN, United Kingdom
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the job role.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- 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
- Postgraduate management/further study qualification i.e. MSc or MA
- Advanced Assessment Skills of the patient; Non-medical prescriber; MSc Clinical Nutrition
Experience
Essential
- 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
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
About us
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.
Employer details
- Employer name: Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust
- Address: Royal Berkshire Hospital, London Road, Reading, RG1 5AN, United Kingdom
- Employer's website: https://www.royalberkshire.nhs.uk/