We have an exciting opportunity for a Highly Specialist Dietitian in Gastroenterology to join the Community Dietetic Service covering High Weald, Lewes & Havens.
The successful applicant will be an active member of the Community Dietetics Team with well-developed team working, communication, interpersonal and supervisory skills.
Experience of gastroenterology, and delivering complex nutritional support, including enteral tube feeding is essential.The post holder will be the clinical lead in gastroenterology for the department.
You will need to be an active and integral member of the Dietetic Team, in addition to being a highly skilled autonomous practitioner working across sites, running out-patient clinics and patient home visits
To provide clinical leadership for Gastroenterology, ensuring effective governance for staffing work in the service.
To lead on ensuring staff are clinically competent, services are clinically effective and safe, and an excellent patient experience is delivered.
To embed the principles of interdisciplinary working and cross skilling for all staff, including implementing the Calderdale competency framework.
To provide specialist clinical assessment, intervention and clinical advice for highly complex patients.
To develop key partnerships, working to ensure effective whole system working, through effective communication and networking with other disciplines and by working across professional boundaries.
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?
• Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeing
• Varied environments: community hospitals, patients’ homes, and bases across Sussex
• Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retirement
• Excellent training, development, and research opportunities
• Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brighton
• Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networks
• Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trust
• Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values—Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence—guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
**"Please note: This role is unlikely to be eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants who do not currently have the right to work in the UK may not be considered.
Candidates requiring sponsorship should review the eligibility criteria on thegov.uk websiteto assess their likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship for this role."**
This advert closes on Monday 31 Mar 2025