Job summary
- Main area
- Senior Dietitian - Community Nutrition Support
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 225-DIV3-7828638
- Employer
- The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- New Cross Hospital
- Town
- Wolverhampton
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
Senior Dietitian - Nutrition Support Rehab & Community
Band 6
Job overview
We are looking for an experienced Registered Dietitian to join our team of 30 clinical staff and an excellent support team providing the Dietetics Service to Wolverhampton and Cannock.
This vacancy is in our community team, and the successful candidate will work across Wolverhampton and Cannock Chase Hospital, predominantly in the field of nutrition support for stroke rehabilitation.
We are a friendly, supportive and dynamic team . We take students on placement from BCU and Coventry and value CPD, development and excellence in practice.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will work in inpatient rehabilitation, outpatients and community settings to deliver a high quality dietetics service for patients requiring nutrition support.
Working for our organisation
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achieved numerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Assess diagnose and treat nutrition related problems in a variety of settings (eg rehab hospitals, patient homes, care homes, outpatients).
Devise and monitor enteral feeding regimens.
Work with outpatients & care homes promoting Food First as nutritional management.
Work closely with the wider MDT to optimise patient care and outcome post stroke.
Provide training to community colleagues on nutrition support and enteral feeding.
Contribute to the training & development of students on clinical placement, apprentice dietitians and junior colleagues.
Undertake audit and projects to promote service quality and development.
Person specification
Qualifications & registration
Essential criteria
- HCPC Registration in Dietetics
Desirable criteria
- Clinical Educators Course
- PENG Clinical Update
Experience and learning
Essential criteria
- Experience in nutrition nutrition support and enteral feeding
- Evidence of continued professional development
- Experience in a range of clinical specialties within the NHS
Desirable criteria
- Post registration experience working in rehabilitation and/or stroke services
Communication Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent written & spoken English
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel efficiently between community sites
Experience and learning
Essential criteria
- Experience delivering nutritional interventions in care homes and/or rehab
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kathryn Robinson
- Job title
- Head of Nutrition & Dietetics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01902 695335
- Additional information
Please do get in touch if you would like to find out more about this vacancy.
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