Job summary
- Main area
- DIETITIAN
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent: WEEKEND WORKING AS PART OF DEPARTMENT ROTA; COMPETENCIES TO BE COMPLETED
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (WEEKEND WORKING AS PART OF DEPARTMENT ROTA)
- Job ref
- 393-NMUH-1344
- Employer
- North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- DEPARTMENT OF NUTRITION & DIETETICS, NORTH MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL NHS TRUST
- Town
- LONDON
- Salary
- £32,720 - £39,769 per annum inclusive of HCAs
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Rotational Dietitian Band 5 Post: Inpatients and OPD
NHS AfC: Band 5
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
This is a rotational band 5 post. Areas to be covered on rotation are medical, surgical and oncology. Please refer to JD.
Main duties of the job
To provide a comprehensive Nutrition and Dietetic Service, with supervision, to General Medicine, Medicine for Elderly (MFE), Oncology, Stroke, Surgical or a combination of these services at the North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust (NMUH), and other areas as required. You will be required to provide a service to the dietetic-led general out-patients clinic and education programmes for patients and staff within the Trust, including cardiac rehabilitation groups. To provide cover for other areas as and when required. You will be required to complete competencies and participate in the Trust Preceptor ship programme in the first 6 months in post to support your development. To be responsible for contributing to developing education resources and education programmes for patients, carers, and staff. To work with the Head of Nutrition & Dietetics, and contribute to producing, implementing, and updating policies and procedures. To regularly participate in research and audit within the Dietetic Service. To participate in seven day service on a rota basis. To undertake planning, organisation, allocation, and training of student training placements for this area. Multidisciplinary team working, close liaison between acute, community teams, and effective communication skills with patients, carers, and other service users is essential. Daily support and regular supervision will be provided by the Band 6/7 dietitian.
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Cover clinical caseload for inpatients.
Cover a general outpatients clinic with rest of Band 5's on rotation.
Educate patients and staff within your area.
Conduct audits within your area.
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- • BSc in Dietetics 4 year degree course or equivalent • State Registered Dietitian with HPC • BDA member
Desirable criteria
- • BDA member of one specialist group
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- • Ability to provide specialised treatment packages, plan and provide appropriate monitoring and use initiative for all rotational areas • Ability to analyse complex, conflicting information, and deciding on the most appropriate treatment plan from a range of options for all rotational areas • Ability to communicate complex, conflicting, sensitive information • Good written and verbal communication • Ability to work as part of a MDT team • Ability to prioritise workload • Demonstrate time management • Computer literate • Flexible • Assertive • Accurate record keeping • Maintain confidentiality • Teaching & presentation skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Up to date clinical knowledge • Knowledge of general medications • Knowledge of government strategy for general medicine, medicine for elderly, oncology, stroke, and surgical areas • Dietetic experience on clinical placement • Working as a team • Experience of managing demand in a busy acute setting, demonstrating ability to appropriately prioritise and manage your workload efficiently for Elderly services • Experience of working with different ethnic groups • Experience working with colleagues in health and other agencies
Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- • Understanding of and commitment to CPD • Demonstrate an understanding of equal opportunities
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
- MANDAKINI PATEL
- Job title
- HEAD OF NUTRITION & DIETETICS
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07816861658
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