Job overview

We have an opportunity for a highly motivated Dietitian to join our friendly and pro-active Nutrition and Dietetics Service at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Gateshead. 

This permanent post offers an enthusiastic Dietitian with passion and experience working in frailty an opportunity to develop their skills and knowledge and provide a high quality dietetic service.

This is an exciting opportunity to work closely and collaboratively with members of the frailty multidisciplinary team including consultants, specialist nurses and allied health professionals to provide care across acute community sites. The successful candidate will be passionate and motivated to develop the service and care for the most vulnerable people.

Main duties of the job

·         To be responsible for providing a specialist dietetic service across Gateshead, to the older adult population of Gateshead who are malnourished or at risk of malnutrition secondary to long term conditions such as COPD, dementia, pressure damage etc.

·         Work within a range of settings including outpatient clinics, care homes, patients own homes and where appropriate in reach within the acute setting.

·         To act as a clinical specialist within the area of frailty;  working within a multiagency team including specialist nurses, consultants, Frailty team,  Care homes, GP’s and other Allied Health Professions (AHP’s).

·         To be responsible for co-ordinating and developing the Dietetic frailty service for adults within Gateshead.

·         To provide clinical education to health care professionals and other appropriate agencies across Gateshead, in many settings.

Working for our organisation

Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.

Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients.

We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region.

Our values should be the ‘golden thread’ which runs through everything we do – they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronym ICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement.

We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women’s Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks.

The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our ‘Balance’ programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.