Job summary
Are you an experienced Dietetic lead in Acute Nutrition Support or a Clinical lead ready for your next step up the career ladder? Are you passionate about demonstrating the value of Dietetics in improving patient care and outcomes? If yes, then we have the ideal post for you!
Do you want to join the 1st Health Board in Wales to have a Malnutrition strategic lead as well as an award-winning team who have for 2 years running been recognised by BAPEN as 'top Nutritional screeners' then read on!
If you are an innovative and compassionate leader who thrives on leading and supporting service development, then this may be the post you have been looking for!
We are looking for an experienced Dietetic lead to join our friendly and supportive team as a Service lead for Acute Nutrition support. You will work closely with our acute Dietetic leads, CNS nutrition nurses, professional practice nurses and Malnutrition strategic lead to ensure Malnutrition is a key priority embedded operationally across acute pathways Health Board wide.
Main duties of the job
You will manage a team of Clinical lead Dietitian's working in Acute Nutrition support HB wide, lead on recruitment and development plans and workforce opportunities
You will have excellent communication and team working skills and will work collaboratively with the wider multi professional team including Consultants, senior Nurses, pharmacy colleagues and procurement to ensure all aspects of Acute Nutrition support are embedded safely in practice. A key aspect of this role is developing, implementing, and evaluating the development of Nutrition support teams HB wide to optimise patient care and safety in line with NICE Clinical guideline 32 (2007).
As the service lead you will set the direction of travel for Acute nutrition support and will pro-actively lead and support clinical leads with performance reporting. You will have a passion for promoting workforce wellbeing as well as driving workforce opportunities to ensure professional development utilising the pillars of professional practice. You will be pro-active in highlighting the work of acute Dietetics and will have experience in innovation, transformation, and quality improvement.
You will work closely and alongside the clinical lead for Acute nutrition support (critical care) based in Glangwili Hospital as well as our acute clinical leads HB wide. You will have extensive knowledge and experience of acute nutrition support and will share a caseload of complex patients on our 18 bedded critical care unit.
About us
Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 12,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:
Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest;
Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire;
48 general practices (six of which are managed practices), 47 dental practices (including three orthodontic), 99 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres;
Numerous locations providing mental health and learning disabilities services;
Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting documents.
The Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences. In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post. If you do not meet the Welsh Language requirements specified, the Health Board offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal desirable requirements during the course of your employment with us.
Interviews will be held on
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Person Specification
Qualifications and knowledge
Essential
1. Degree in Dietetics
2. Professional registration with the HCPC
3. Educated to master's level
4. Significant accredited post graduate specialist knowledge via training and study within relevant area of practice at master's level or equivalent
5. Expert clinical knowledge of Acute Nutrition support
6. Knowledge and ability to apply evidence-based methodology to support engagement, improvement, and transformation
7. Knowledge of professional, national and health board policy, standards and guidance and the application to delivery of acute dietetic services.
Desirable
8. Master's level qualification relevant to the role
9. Postgraduate qualifications in research methodology
10. Member of PENG
11. Management / Leadership qualification
12. Quality Improvement, Silver IQT
Experience
Essential
13. Extensive experience of team leadership including multi-professional team working
14. Experience of leading project / improvement / service change work, with the ability to demonstrate value and outcomes.
15. Experience of engaging and influencing at operational level
16. Established line management experience including registered and un registered staff and delegation
17. Experience of identifying reporting and managing risk
18. Experience of service development including across professional boundaries.
19. Experience of managing a highly complex, demanding workload using advanced reasoning and, of enabling others to effectively prioritise competing demands.
20. Experience of writing and presenting reports / project plans / proposals / service plans / business cases.
21. Experience of impact evaluation using recognised methodology.
22. Experience of research, audit and interpreting evidence into clinical practice.
23. Significant experience of working autonomously; ability to make informed decisions on behalf of the service area.
24. Experience of developing and delivering education and training.
Desirable
25. Experience of leading national or professional network work
26. Active participation in relevant professional networks or national groups.
27. Influencing or informing strategic work.
Other
Essential
28. Ability to travel between sites
29. Flexible approach to needs of the service
Language Skills
Desirable
30. Welsh Speaker (Level 1)