Employer Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Wansbeck General Hospital
Town Ashington
Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 19/02/2025 23:59
Specialist Dietitian - Surgery and Acute Nutrition Support
NHS AfC: Band 6
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients.
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
* Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
* Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
* A range of flexible working opportunities
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
* Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
* On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
* Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes.
Job overview
This is a fantastic opportunity for an enthusiastic, innovative and motivated Dietitian with an interest in surgery and acute nutrition support.
This post requires a person who is able to work with and influence the MDT in their specialist area, and provide a high quality service to patients.
Main duties of the job
Your varied and complex caseload will include managing the nutrition of peri-operative patients and those recovering from surgery. There will be an expectation to develop strong links with the MDT, which will require excellent communication skills.
The post holder will utilise their specialist knowledge of oral, enteral and parenteral feeding strategies. Although experience in each of these would be beneficial, there would be ample opportunity for training to upskill.
Alongside the acute setting, there will be scope for working in the outpatient setting, with clinics that provide an interesting caseload to maintain a breadth of dietetic knowledge.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To act as a specialist dietitian in your area of expertise and provide a comprehensive and effective dietetic service to the trust.
The post will cover a specific specialty working in one area eg Critical Care, Stroke, Gastroenterology, Surgery, General Medicine, Diabetes, Respiratory, COPD, ONS, Oncology, Bariatrics, Community Oral Nutrition Support, Home Enteral Feeding, Adult weight management and Orthopaedics etc across sites and / or to have a site specialty role.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree in nutrition and dietetics or first level degree plus postgraduate diploma in nutrition and dietetics
* Current registration with Health Professions Council
* PEN Group / DAFNE /DESMONDor other accredited qualification
* Non-Medical Prescribing
Experience and Knowledge
* A range of in and outpatient experience and an extended knowledge of nutrition and dietetics
* Have supervised students
* Experience in critical appraisal
* Involvement in research
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible.
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post.
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