Job summary
Are you a self-motivated team player who is passionate about quality improvement and service development? Are you looking for a new opportunity for 2025? If so, we have an exciting opportunity to join our friendly dietetic team as Deputy Dietetic Service Manager (Acute Lead); working for a Trust who has recently won the 'Trust of the Year' in the prestigious Health Service Journal Wards in November 2024.
Warwickshire Dietetic Service provides inpatient services to adults with a wide variety of nutritional needs at George Eliot Hospital, Warwick Hospital and Leamington Spa Hospital. As well as providing a service to inpatients, we also run numerous hospital and community based outpatient clinics. Some of these clinics are run independently and some are run jointly with multidisciplinary teams. We deliver community services across Warwickshire for children and adults and as part of the left shift agenda, acute and community teams work closely together.
We are looking for a leader with proven strategic and operational management, service development and clinical leadership skills to continue to drive forward the service.
We will support your Continuous Professional Development in line with our values and behaviours framework.
This video provides some more information about the service: Service Video
We are hoping to conduct interviews for this role around the end of April.
Main duties of the job
1. To be responsible for the operational management and delivery of an agreed area of service.
2. To assist and deputise for the Dietetic Service Manager in the operational management and delivery of service objectives.
3. To contribute to the redesign of the Warwickshire Dietetic Service as required.
4. To lead or contribute to specific projects in line with strategic and business plans.
5. To ensure the Warwickshire Dietetic Service Clinical Governance requirements are achieved and reported as per Trust processes.
6. To be responsible for effective line management of the dietitians and assistant practitioners in an agreed area of the service.
7. To assist in delivering safe, efficient and effective Dietetic Services across Warwickshire.
About us
Come and join a Trust rated Outstanding by the CQC. South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust have been rated as outstanding following our latest inspection by the CQC and we are recruiting new staff to come and help us improve even further. In addition, our staff survey results have placed us 4th in the country for recommended place to work.
We provide services across Warwickshire and beyond ranging from Hospitals in Warwick, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Royal Leamington Spa and Shipston-on Stour to Community Services across the county. We are a progressive, expanding organisation with great ambition around improving quality, integrating pathways and delivering high levels of productivity. Our values can be summed up in one sentence: We are 'Trusted to provide safe, inclusive, effective and compassionate care'. Throughout the recruitment process you will be asked to think about how you demonstrate these values and how they impact on your work. It doesn't matter what role you do, whether it is patient facing or not, we are all working in the same way with our values at the core.
Date posted: 26 March 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 8a
Salary: £53,755 to £60,504 a year per annum
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 203-SS1083
Job locations: Warwick Hospital or George Eliot Hospital, Warwick, CV34 5BW
Job responsibilities
1. Managerial
1. To be responsible for providing professional leadership and comply with BDA Code of professional conduct, HCPC Standards of Proficiency and HCPC Standards of conduct, performance and ethics and ensure all staff are aware of these.
2. Deputise for dietetic manager and attend trust wide meetings in the absence of the dietetic manager.
3. Ensure commissioning requirements in the agreed area of the service are delivered and reported.
4. Ensure admin procedures relating to the agreed area of work are completed in a timely manner.
5. To authorise expenditure against a delegated budget.
6. To ensure best use of staff, resources and equipment within budget constraints.
7. To recruit and induct Registered Dietitians and Assistant Practitioners in the agreed area of the service and in other teams as required.
8. To lead on the development and delivery of the agreed area of service across Warwickshire.
9. To be responsible for the day to day management of the staff in the agreed area of service including monitoring absence, performance, arranging cover and initial investigation of incidents and complaints.
10. To be responsible for carrying out personal development reviews for staff in the agreed area of service.
11. To authorise stock and non-stock equipment in line with the Trust financial instructions and authorised budgetary limit.
2. Clinical
1. To develop and deliver a clinical service in an agreed clinical area.
2. To provide cover for colleagues during periods of planned and unplanned leave.
3. Stock Control
1. To ensure equipment and resources are available in the agreed area of service and is well maintained and replaced as required.
2. To ensure adequate stocks of patient literature are maintained and order as required.
4. Training and Education
1. To facilitate the identification of training needs of staff through appraisal and assist in ensuring the training needs analysis for the service is completed annually.
2. To provide training, education & support for new staff in the agreed speciality and for staff wishing to gain experience in the speciality.
3. To assist on the introduction of dietetic apprentices in South Warwickshire Foundation Trust.
4. Actively participate in keeping up to date, attend relevant learning activities and Trust mandatory and statutory training.
5. Clinical Governance
1. To assist in ensuring the departments clinical governance agenda is met and reported according to Trust standards, taking a lead on agreed areas from the following:
* Clinical and professional audits
* Patient experience surveys, questionnaires and patient stories
* Clinical guidelines, pathways and procedures
* Risk assessments
* Investigate clinical incidents and complaints
* Research opportunities
Plan and organise own workload and evaluate own practice. Actively participate in keeping up to date, attend relevant learning activities, mandatory and statutory training and participate in the Personal Development Review process working to achieve agreed set objectives.
Follow department and trust clinical guidelines, policies and procedures.
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
* Dietetic degree or post-graduate diploma
* Registered dietitian with the Health Care Professions Council
* British Dietetic Association member
* Documented evidence of continuing professional development
* Post registration training at Master's level
Desirable
* Clinical Education Skills Course.
* Evidence of leadership training
* Evidence of post-graduate management training and qualifications
Experience Essential
* Experience of dietetic practice in a range of settings
* Experience of line managing staff
* Experience of leading and delivering elements of Clinical Governance
* Experience of line managing clinical staff
* Experience of recruitment and selection processes
* Experience in clinical supervision of dietetic students and junior staff
* Experience of project management
Skills Essential
* Up to date dietetic professional knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent and evidence of continuous professional development and an awareness of best practice in dietetics.
* Able to demonstrate understanding of NHS and professional issues and strategies.
* Able to demonstrate ability to work within the legal & ethical boundaries of the profession.
* Able to demonstrate ability to be an effective member of the dietetic and multidisciplinary team.
* Able to demonstrate advanced written and verbal communication and negotiation skills in a range of situations with relevant stakeholders.
* Able to demonstrate proven planning, decision making and organisational skills.
* Able to demonstrate effective leadership skills.
* Able to reflect and appraise own performance and that of others.
* Must be computer literate able to use a variety of IT systems.
* Able to analyse and interpret information relating to the service.
* Able to demonstrate specialist knowledge and application of evidence based / current best practice in dietetics.
* Able to demonstrate good presentation and training skills.
* Able to demonstrate knowledge of clinical governance and its application.
Personal Qualities Essential
* Highly motivated to develop the service, themselves, team members, apprentices and students.
* Able to be an effective member of the dietetic and multidisciplinary teams.
* Able to maintain effective working relationships and engagement with relevant stakeholders.
* Able to work autonomously and prioritise own and others workload and work under pressure.
* Must be able to deal with difficult situations appropriately.
* Committed to personal and professional development.
* Committed to client centred, non-discriminatory practice.
Other Essential
* Must have independent means of transport.
* Must be willing to work flexibly within the requirements of the service.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.
UK Registration: Applicants must have current UK professional registration.
Employer details
Employer name: South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Warwick Hospital or George Eliot Hospital, Warwick, CV34 5BW
Employer's website: https://www.swft.nhs.uk/
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