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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.
From the employer's advert, checked 26 October 2026.
Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust is on the Home Office register of licensed sponsors as “Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust” (Skilled Worker). Register checked 23 October 2026.
About the job
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.
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.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details of the job role.
Job description
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