Job summary
- Main area
- Dietitian
- Contract
- Bank
- Hours
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 820-7478666-BANK
- Employer
- Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Mosely Hall Hospital
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £21.38 Per hour
- Salary period
- Hourly
- Closing
- 25/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Bank level 6 Specialist Adult Inpatient Dietitian
Job overview
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A BANK ONLY POST AND NOT A PERMANENT SUBSTANTIVE POST
Have you ever wondered what happened to your patients once they transferred to a community hospital ward? Would you enjoy seeing how their dietetic care continues in a community setting? If so, Birmingham Community Nutrition has a vacancy in our high profile and dynamic community hospital inpatient team. This role can be flexed to nurture individuals at or near the start of their career or can build on and develop skills for more experienced dietitians.
This unique post is part of a multi professional community hospitals’ dietetic team with good support from dietetic assistant practitioners. The team leads enteral feeding and supplement prescribing and provides high quality nutritional care at Moseley Hall Hospital and West Heath Hospital in Birmingham. Experience of nutritional support, dysphagia and enteral feeding is essential for this role. You will also have opportunity to work alongside our award-winning Nutrition Nurse team to develop your enteral feeding knowledge and practice.
Main duties of the job
To work as part of the Inpatient Dietetic Team and through this contribute to the development of nutrition support initiatives such as outcome measures, nutritional assessment and care pathways. This involves taking particular responsibility for initiatives and issues relating to enteral feeding in wards, such as the maintenance of the Trust Enteral Feeding Policy.
To manage a complex and diverse caseload of inpatients which includes liaison with other health professionals, suppliers, patients and carers to facilitate the provision of appropriate, timely and cost effective nutrition support for patients who are enterally fed or on oral nutritional supplements.
To communicate effectively with colleagues within and outside the department to facilitate effective patient care, service development and multidisciplinary working. This includes attending relevant meetings regarding the patients to represent their nutrition and dietetic care.
Full duties and responsibilities are outlined in JD.
Working for our organisation
This team is part of Birmingham Community Nutrition which provide a comprehensive community citywide service for the Birmingham and Solihull ICB and employs over 70 staff. We also support the training of dietetic learners from local higher education establishments.
Benefits of working for Birmingham Community Nutrition include free parking at all community venues, excellent access to IT equipment to work remotely, up to date office facilities and comprehensive admin support dedicated to the service.
The department has a comprehensive structure to support Clinical Governance and your personal development via annual appraisals, clinical supervision and training opportunities. Career development, flexible working and staff support are given high priority in the Trust.
IMPORTANT
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Work under the dietetic team leader for inpatient units and support the development and delivery of the service provided.
- Work as an autonomous specialist practitioner, deputising for the dietetic team leader for the bedded units and be responsible for co-ordinating all areas of patient clinical care and service provision in their absence.
- Actively pass on, and also encourage others to share, their skills, knowledge and experience within both formal and informal environments, having responsibility for the development of other dietitians, health professionals and students.
- Fulfill all tasks and work as part of a team. This includes taking responsibility for delegated tasks, which do not fall within the work outlined, as reasonably requested by the Service Lead
- Deliver a high-quality dietetic service for stroke and adult inpatients at Moseley Hall Hospital and West Heath Hospital.
- Support multidisciplinary team working on the inpatient wards in order to develop and implement high quality, integrated patient care.
- Provide specialised advice and second clinical opinion to other colleagues, working in collaboration with other teams and services in order to support a consistent and equitable service.Full duties and responsibilities are outlined in JD.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Substantive experience of post registration clinical dietetics
- Evidence of developing, implementing and evaluating projects
- Evidence of interest in nutrition support and home enteral feeding
- Evidence of multi disciplinary working
- Evidence of delivering training sessions
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching and assessing students
- Experience of supervising staff
Skills/knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to demonstrate verbal communication skills and presentation skills
- Ability to generate written communication that is relevant, concise, accurate and legible
- Ability to work within a multicultural setting, including ability to teach groups and individuals from different backgrounds
- Ability to apply nutritional knowledge in a variety of settings
- Ability to plan and manage own time
- Demonstrates a sound knowledge and application of up-to-date evidence based clinical trends and practices
Desirable criteria
- A demonstrable understanding of dietetics within a community setting
- An ability to use information technology to maximise personal effectiveness, or a willingness to develop these skills
- An ability to demonstrate individual and team responsibility in respect of health and safety
Personal qualities
Essential criteria
- An ability to be very flexible in a changing environment
- An ability to work independently
- An ability to demonstrate a commitment to team working
- An ability to develop and maintain links with outside agencies
- An ability to learn and apply knowledge appropriately
- An ability to use tact and diplomacy where necessary
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrates innovative ideas
Other job requirements
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel to different venues within the city, transporting equipment such as scales
Qualifications / Training
Essential criteria
- Dietitian registered with Health Professions Council
- Evidence of Continual Professional Development
- Degree in Nutrition/Dietetics
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lucy Davis
- Job title
- Clinical Service Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0121 683 2300
- Additional information
Whatever your skills or experience in dietetics we encourage you to contact us for an informal discussion about the role: Lucy Davis Service Clinical Manager or Matthew Keogh Inpatient Dietitian Team Leader on 0121 683 2300/0121 466 6388. Lucy.davis[email protected]. We can also arrange for you to speak to some of our existing staff to help you understand why they have chosen BCHC as ‘A Great Place to Work’.
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