Job summary
- Main area
- Critical Care Dietitian
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week
- Job ref
- 412-COMM-7869826
- Employer
- Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Dietetic Service
- Town
- Crewe
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 pa pro rota
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Critical Care Specialist Dietitian/Acute Team Leader
Band 7
Want to work somewhere you can really make a difference? Somewhere you’re encouraged to have ideas and empowered to create positive change?
Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP) deliver NHS Community Services across Cheshire. With a wide range of clinical disciplines, we are a dynamic, future-facing organisation passionate about delivering the highest quality healthcare whilst collaborating with our community partners.
We foster a culture of continuous improvement, built on compassion.
Find out more about CCICP: Community Services (CCICP): Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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Don’t just take our word for it…
Our Annual Staff Survey results say
· Over 83% of staff would recommend CCICP as a place to work
· 90% of staff say the people they work with show appreciation to each other
· 88% staff say that patient care/service users are the organisations top priority
· Over 70% of staff believe there are opportunities for them to develop their career
· If a friend or relative needed treatment 81% of staff are happy with the standard of care provided
We are recognised nationally
· With over 24 Queen’s Nurses (and growing) we have one of the highest percentages proportionate to the size of our team
· Nursing Times Award winners in 2023 and finalists in 2024 for a Bladder and Bowl project. Our specialist Stoma service is currently shortlisted for a Nursing Times and British Journal of Nursing awards.
· Two Specialist clinicians have recently had their work recognised by Wounds UK
· Leighton Hospital Urgent Treatment Centre, run by CCICP, was reviewed by Care Quality Commission and awarded the highest score in the North West
Job overview
Are you a highly specialist critical care dietitian with developed leadership skills?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a self-motivated Dietitian to join the Acute Dietetics Team at Leighton Hospital, Crewe.
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Band 7 Dietitian to lead the Acute Team within a team of supportive senior colleagues and lead the Critical Care inpatient service.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will have advanced clinical knowledge of complex enteral feeding and parenteral nutrition.
Previous experience providing complex nutrition support in the acute setting is essential long with experience working within a critical care unit. You will contribute to the on-going development of both the dietetic critical care provision and the wider dietetic service. You will provide clinical leadership for the dietetic team, supervising junior staff, supporting student training, and promoting a culture of evidence-based practice.
As an integral member of the MDT, you will contribute to the critical care rehab ward round, formulating plans for patients with complex nutritional management and supporting improved patient outcomes. Strong communication skills, leadership experience and bringing innovative ideas on how to develop a specialist service is key.
This is an excellent opportunity for a clinician to deepen their expertise in a supportive environment.
If you are passionate about advancing dietetic practice in Critical Care and leadership, and are keen to influence and develop a specialist and dietetic service, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Working for our organisation
Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond. The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.
We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.
The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.
During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.
The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients. We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.
At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. To have lead responsible for the development, coordination and delivery of an advanced dietetic service to patients on critical care within MCHFT.
2. To formulate, deliver and monitor nutritional care plans for referred patients. This would include highly complex clinical conditions and diet therapy on critical care and supporting care across wards at Leighton Hospital
3. To be recognised as an expert source of knowledge in the field of critical care leading on development of clinical guidelines, resources and education packages.
4. To demonstrate strong leadership, organisational, and communication skills to provide leadership to the acute dietetic team at Leighton Hospital
5. To proactively support the acute dietetic service to provide high quality patient care and deliver evidence-based practice.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Relevant PG training in enteral & parenteral dietetics
- Relevant Leadership training
- Dietetic training in critical care
Experience
Essential criteria
- 4 years working in the NHS
- Relevant acute NHS ward clinical experience
Desirable criteria
- relevant NHS experience working on critical care
Skills
Essential criteria
- Parenteral and Enteral nutrition
- MDT working acute and oncology
- critical clinical decision making
Desirable criteria
- Enteral feeding tube management
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
- Jacqui Stocker
- Job title
- Dietetic and Adult Speech Therapy Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01270 273598
- Additional information
Sarah Macleod
Critical Care Dietitian
01270 612213
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Leighton Hospital
Middlewich Road
Crewe
Cheshire
CW1 4QJ
- Telephone
- [email protected]
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