Clinical Support Worker - Nutrition | Liverpool University Hospitals Nhs Foundation Trust

This is an exciting development opportunity for a motivated and experienced Clinical Support Worker to join our established Medically Led Nutrition Support Team. The Nutrition Team manages complex patients with Gastroparesis, a busy PEG and HPN service and provides Clinical Support for the regional inpatient Eating Disorder service. We also provide an inpatient service to the Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust and the successful post holder will support the Nutrition Nurse Specialists in developing the nursing element of this service.
You will be responsible for supporting to deliver a high-quality evidence-based Nutrition Nurse service within the Nutrition Support Team providing clinical input to the daily ward round and delivering outpatient clinics under the direction of the Lead Nutrition Nurse. You will support the delivery of nutrition related projects, audit and education across the Trust. There will be an opportunity to develop key clinical skills and meet training needs through internal and external training.
The post holder will have clinical experience working with patients requiring nutrition support. You will have excellent communication skills and be able to effectively liaise with internal and external partners to provide a seamless transition of care across services.
Work collaboratively within the team/with other agencies deliver local and national health priorities and objectives.
Accountable for own clinical practice. Deliver care in line with national quality standards and Trust policy.
Work within the skills and competencies expected of the role. Act as an advocate/champion for clients.
Support clinical staff managing long term conditions. Organise/ facilitate groups/or individuals to develop self-care skills.
Identify need for and initiate referrals to internal/external partners, within agreed parameters.
Develop ‘person specific goals’ with individuals, carers and colleagues.
Enable individuals to develop the necessary skills to improve own health and lifestyle.Undertake risk assessment in line with relevant guidelines.
Undertake health promotion activities as Undertake clinical tasks, following patient specific direction.
Communicate effectively with patients and carers . Participate in individual clinical supervision.
Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation policies and procedures.Provide information as requested.Undertake all relevant mandatory training.
Develop and maintain own knowledge and skills through the use of competency frameworks and continuous professional development (CPD) and personal development process (PDP).
Provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues. follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.
The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.
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• Work collaboratively within the team and with other agencies to deliver local and national health priorities and objectives.
• Deliver care in line with national quality standards and Trust policy.
• Work within the skills and competencies expected of the role.
• Act as an advocate and champion for clients.
• Support clinical staff in managing long term conditions.
• Organise and facilitate groups and /or individuals to develop self-care skills.
• Identify the need for and initiate referrals to internal/external partners, within agreed parameters.
• Develop ‘person specific goals’ with individuals, carers and colleagues.
• Enable individuals to develop the necessary skills to improve own health and lifestyle.
• Contribute to health needs assessment of a defined area of the population.
• Undertake risk assessment on a defined patient population in line with relevant guidelines.
• Undertake health promotion activities as required.
• Undertake clinical tasks, following patient specific direction.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
• Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation policies and procedures.
• Provide information as requested.
• Participate in audit as required by the organisation.
• Undertake all relevant mandatory training.
• Develop and maintain own knowledge and skills through the use of competency frameworks and continuous professional development (CPD) and personal development process (PDP).
• The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
• The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation Clinical Governance / Quality
• Undertake clinical tasks, following patient specific direction.
Education and training development
• Attend required training
• Equality and Diversity
• It is the responsibility of every member of staff to understand our equality and diversity commitments and statutory obligations under current equality legislation (the Equality Act 2010) and to:
• Act in ways that support equality and diversity and recognises the importance of people’s rights in accordance with legislation, policies, procedures and good practice.
• Valuing people as individuals and treating everyone with dignity and respect, consideration and without prejudice, respecting diversity and recognising peoples expressed beliefs, preferences and choices in working with others and delivering appropriate services.
• Recognise and report behaviour that undermines equality under Trust policy.
• Be consciously aware of own behaviour and encourage the same levels of behaviour in colleagues.
• Acknowledge others’ different perspectives and recognise the diverse needs and experiences of everyone they come into contact with.
• With the support of managers develop an equality and diversity objective through the personal development review process.
This advert closes on Friday 2 Feb 2024