Job summary
- Main area
- Diabetes
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 388-7220505-AHP
- Employer
- Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Torbay Hospital
- Town
- Torquay
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Closing
- 04/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Diabetes Dietitian
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
Are you looking to progress your career forward in the field of adult diabetes care? Would you like to work with a dynamic and forward thinking multidisciplinary diabetes team in beautiful South Devon?
We have an exciting opportunity to appoint 1.0wte Band 6 Specialist Diabetes Dietitian into a permanent role in our team.
This is an ideal opportunity to enhance your skills and develop new knowledge in supporting people to self manage their diabetes. You will be well supported by an experienced friendly MDT of diabetes dietitians, nurses and doctors, and offered mentoring and CPD opportunities.
Our dedicated team of specialist dietitians work within a range of specialist diabetes areas including Type 1 and Type 2 patients, lipid service, antenatal clinics, insulin pump clinics, diabetes self management education and transition service.
Main duties of the job
You will provide specialist dietetic advice for people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes, gestational diabetes, and lipid disorders in independently led dietetic clinics and in MDT clinics.
Use enhanced clinical reasoning skills to provide specialist dietetic advice for patients who may present with diabetes and other multiple/complex physical and mental health needs. Considering patients own personal health goals.
Provide patient education in group settings for those newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and including carbohydrate counting education.
To teach and support other members of the MDT and other healthcare professionals working on acute wards and in primary care.
Undertake department and team audit and contribute to service development work.
Working for our organisation
The Diabetes Specialist Dietitians Team is part of the wider Dietetic Team (over 23wte Registered staff) including Acute, Community, Paediatric, Diabetes, Weight Management and Cancer Services.
The team is flexible and promotes a healthy work/home life balance. Therefore, your package with us includes a lot more than just your pay.
Listed are a few of the additional benefits that are available to you as an employee:
- NHS Pension Scheme
- Childcare at our day nursery
- Generous Holiday Entitlement, starting at 27 days a year (for full time workers) plus bank/public holidays
- Staff Discounts
- Career development and training opportunities
- Employee Support - Staff have access to a 24-hour helpline
Our people are caring, committed, inclusive and focussed on quality. We focus on solutions and people’s strengths. We encourage outside the box thinking and embrace innovation and change wherever it can drive improvement.
If you share our values and vision and are passionate about working with people on what matters to them, you could be a real assed to Team Torbay and South Devon.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Excellent verbal, written and electronic communication skills are required to provide information and to establish and maintain working relationships with a wide range of colleagues.
Engagement with patients, relatives and carers, individually and in groups, in a variety of community and clinical settings, using a range of communication formats, including virtual platforms.
To work with the Diabetes team in planning, delivering, developing and
auditing the diabetes education programmes.
To provide education for patients individually and in groups.
Responsible for providing highly developed and complex clinical and
nutritional information to people with diabetes and other members of the multidisciplinary teams.
To provide a specialised inpatient dietetic service for patients with diabetes working in close liaison with the Diabetes Specialist Nurses.
To promote the role of the dietitian in the management of patients with
diabetes, lipid disorders and obesity both within the hospital and in primary care.
This post carries no budgetary responsibility.
To maintain and improve professional knowledge through literature,
attendance at courses/conferences as agreed with the Diabetes Team and the wider dietetic department.
Please see our attached job description and person specification form for full details.
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Person specification
Qualifications and training
Essential criteria
- • Degree or equivalent in Nutrition and Dietetics
- • HCPC registration in Dietetics
- • Evidence of post graduate study in Diabetes
Desirable criteria
- • Post Graduate Diabetes Qualification
- • Member of a specialist group of BDA e.g. Diabetes or member of Diabetes UK or Heart UK
- • Behaviour change training
- • Adult Education Teaching qualification or Group facilitation training
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- • Post qualification experience
- • Autonomous practitioner
- • Experience to date must include some diabetes and obesity dietetics
Desirable criteria
- • Advanced clinical skills including experience of delivering Type 1 diabetes structured education
- • Experience of managing people with diabetes using insulin pumps
- • Experience of clinically supervising other dietitians working in diabetes or other specialties
- • Ability to carry out research and to interpret the research of others
- * Experience of developing a service or planning and delivering health promotion initiatives
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Liz Moon
- Job title
- Specialist Diabetes Dietitian and Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01803 654384
- Additional information
For informal discussion please contact
Liz Moon, Diabetes Specialist Dietitian and Team Lead. [email protected]
or
Liz Wardle Head of Service Nutrition and Dietetics [email protected]
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