This is an exciting role at an exciting time for Dietetics, Allied Health Professionals and Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS trust as we seek to become the leading provider of integrated care bringing lots of opportunities for future development. This post will lead our adult integrated care services and will lead a small team of dietitians and support staff to promote optimised nutritional screening and nutritional support in care homes working alongside the multidisciplinary team to support admission avoidance and deliverance against the care homes framework. Additionally, supporting the hospital to home pathway with a focus on supporting people in a small number of integrated care wards and our stroke rehabilitation ward (which will move to a community setting when we move to our new hospital in 2024) and the community stroke pathway across Sandwell and West Birmingham. The Nutrition and Dietetics Department is a growing team of 30-40 dietitians and nutrition nurses; based across Sandwell and West Birmingham. We have regular departmental meetings, clinical supervision sessions and education meetings. Continuing professional development is promoted and supported.
Are you an experienced clinician who is:
* Ambitious to improve services?
* Passionate to teach and inspire?
* Innovative and driven?
Sandwell & West Birmingham Nutrition & Dietetic Services are seeking to recruit an advanced Dietitian into a newly created clinical leadership role within our expanding service. This is an exciting step for our service as we seek to build on our existing clinical leadership structure and strengthen our clinical representation as our services expand. We are seeking an innovative individual who is driven to work primarily within care homes and integrated care for our diverse population. Candidates will be joining a service at a time of considerable opportunity. You will need to use highly developed interpersonal skills to foster strong relationships with a range of key stakeholders leading in a service that will strongly align with the community MDT. The successful post holder will demonstrate advanced clinical knowledge and skills in adult community dietetics and a proven track record of leading for quality improvement within Dietetic teams. The post-holder would join our existing community leadership structure working alongside our Clinical Nurse Specialists and Community Dietitian Team Leaders which will include exposure to a range of services and opportunities.
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately 600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises.As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding.The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
* Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
* Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
* Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live