Job summary
- Main area
- Dietetics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 5
- Contract
- 12 months (2x fixed term posts to cover secondments for 12 months)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 190-0264-DIR
- Employer
- Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Northern General Hospital
- Town
- Sheffield
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 pa/pro rata for part time staff
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 27/05/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 05/06/2025
Employer heading
Dietitian (Rotational)
NHS AfC: Band 5
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated so whilst you care for our patients and clients, we’ll take care of you. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes , health and wellbeing packages and financial support systems. Joining the Trust also allows you access to a number of saving options via our salary sacrifice schemes and a wide range of discount opportunities with retailers and service providers.
Job overview
Are you interested in joining an innovative, high profile dietetic team.
We currently have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic rotational dietitian to join Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. The dietetic team consists of over 50 Dietitians, plus dietetic assistants and admin staff across 3 hospital sites and Sheffield community. STH is one of the largest Trusts in the country.
These rotational posts provide opportunities to work at different hospital sites including the Northern General Hospital, the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Weston Park Oncology Centre and Community Dietetics.
You will gain a broad experience of acute teaching hospital and community settings. Your clinical commitments in the acute rotations will be a variety of medical, surgical or oncology wards, and will include an outpatient clinic. We are actively involved in dietetic student training with Sheffield Hallam University.
Applicants will possess BSc Nutrition and Dietetics (or equivalent) and must be HCPC registered. However, we would welcome applications from Dietetic students who will be eligible for HCPC on completion of studies. Excellent communication skills and effective team working skills are essential.
CPD is actively encouraged, with opportunities to attend accredited post registration courses and in-house training.
Main duties of the job
- To be responsible for the provision of high quality dietetic services to a clinical caseload in a designated area, using skills and knowledge as an independent practitioner.
- To contribute to the development and implementation of evidence based clinical and teaching practice.
- To work with their supervisor and Dietetic team leader in assisting in the operational management of the department.
- To assist the dietetic management team to ensure the overall service provides high quality patient care, and in the management of clinical governance, resources and equipment.
- To actively participate in development, education and delivery of training to dietetic students.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which values and respects all its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff. This includes commitments to professional development but also many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
This vacancy is advertised on a fixed term contract basis for the maximum period of 12 months. Where there is potential, the secondment/fixed term contract may finish early, or in the first instance, the secondment/fixed term contract may be extended due to the internal/external secondment of the substantive post holder. The fixed term contract status of the post holder will be reviewed in accordance with the Trust's legal obligations regarding fixed term contracts and secondments in relation to the substantive post holder.
Please also note any secondment must first be agreed with your current line manager.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc Nutrition and Dietetics or relevant degree with Post Grad Diploma in Dietetics
- HCPC registration
Experience
Essential criteria
- Suitable for a newly qualified dietitian
- Evidence of independent working
- Good level of knowledge of nutritional needs and nutritional assessment of hospital in and out patients
- Competent in calculating nutritional requirements
- Competent in setting up enteral tube feeds and dealing with minor complications
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Committed to engage in professional and personal development and department appraisal system and willing to undergo further training as necessary
- Able to demonstrate basic counselling and motivational skills
- Able to manage a caseload with frequently changing priorities, and deal with interruptions seeking guidance from supervisor as appropriate
- Good interpersonal, communication and team working skills
- Ability to work as an integral member of MDT and as an autonomous practitioner
- Able to state the case for nutritional intervention as part of the care plan
- Understand and accept the need to maintain confidentiality
- Able to document and record accurately in line with national standards
- Able to record activity and other data manually and electronically
- Familiar with and able to operate all necessary IT packages e.g. email, word, dietary analysis, power point
- Able to develop educational resources to meet the varying needs of clients and carers which are evidence based
- Awareness of clinical governance and its implications for dietetics including importance of audit projects
- Able to use literature review search methods and can critically appraise evidence
- Aware of regulatory bodies and professional bodies codes of practice and professional guidelines
- Able to withstand pressure of work
- Able to cope with infrequent exposure to bodily fluids, unpleasant smells, ability to follow procedures for infection control and own safety
Desirable criteria
- Able to use database e.g. excel
Personal Qualities
Desirable criteria
- One rotation has the requirement to undertake home visits and transport non-portable equipment throughout Sheffield, a desirable requirement would be that the post holder is either a car driver with a valid driving licence or has access to alternative means of transport.
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
- Louise Lamerton
- Job title
- Acting Deputy Head of Dietetics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0114 2714162
- Additional information
Louise Lamerton
Email: [email protected]
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