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Senior Dietitian - Community Nutrition Support
Grade
Band 6
Contract
Permanent
Hours
  • Part time
  • Flexible working
18.75 hours per week (Hours worked over at least 3 days)
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

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust logo

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

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

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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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