Job Summary
Band 7 Specialist Adult Eating Disorders Dietitian
We have an exciting opportunity to join our multidisciplinary community eating disorders team based in West Suffolk. You will work alongside an experienced Specialist Dietitian, helping to enhance and develop our services for adults with eating disorders. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to build your knowledge and experience in a supportive and collaborative team. You will also benefit from the wider network of eating disorder dietitians working across the trust.
Main duties of the job
This role expects you to act as a source of expertise on the dietary management of eating disorders to the multi-disciplinary team, community health professionals and others involved in the care of our patients. This includes liaising with colleagues in the local acute trust.
Clinical work is varied and hugely rewarding. You will work with patients through the nutritional and physical consequences of an eating disorder providing advice to patients at all stages of their treatment. This will include patients at risk of re-feeding syndrome and patients with complex dietary needs. We offer dietetic care in a variety of settings including community clinics, groups, and support for acute hospital admissions. This is a change from being based in a traditional dietetic department and allows for significant personal and professional development. The eating disorders team is a supportive environment respectful of the dietetic role.
About Us
The Trust is in the process of innovative transformation. We are striving to develop our care model to be more aligned with the needs of the local communities. This has created opportunities to not only recognise and consolidate what we are doing well, but also to drive creativity in radically changing service delivery.
These are both challenging and exciting times, in which we are redeveloping how we deliver mental health services in Suffolk. As such, this provides many opportunities for successful applicants to play a key role in bringing about positive change and making a difference, not only at an individual, family, or team level, but in shaping the future direction of our services.
Benefits
* NHS pension
* A comprehensive in-house & external training programme
* Career progression
* Starting annual leave of 27 days per annum increasing to 33 days pa based on length of service (plus paid bank holidays)
* Staff physio service
* NHS discounts and many more.
Job Description
Job responsibilities
Are you a passionate and skilled Dietitian looking to make a difference in the lives of adults with eating disorders? We have an exciting opportunity to join our multidisciplinary community eating disorders team based in West Suffolk.
You will work alongside an experienced Specialist Dietitian, helping to enhance and develop our services for adults with eating disorders. This role offers a fantastic opportunity to build your knowledge and experience in a supportive and collaborative team. You will also benefit from the wider network of eating disorder dietitians working across the trust.
Clinical work is varied and hugely rewarding. You will work with patients through the nutritional and physical consequences of eating disorders providing advice to patients at all stages of their treatment. This includes community clinics, group education and supporting acute hospital admissions.
We welcome applications from Dietitians with experience, sound transferable skills, and an interest in this fascinating clinical field. We are a cross-county team so some work across the Suffolk locality may be required.
If you're looking for a rewarding and impactful role where you can be part of a dedicated MDT delivering high-quality care, we would love to hear from you!
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
* BSc Nutrition & Dietetics or equivalent Current HCPC professional registration in dietetics.
* Masters or equivalent experience in specialist area.
Experience Essential
* Extensive experience in Clinical Dietetics
* Experience of working with adults presenting with eating difficulties and managing complexities.
Skills Essential
* Ability to provide leadership within specialist area.
* Excellent teaching and presentation skills.
Knowledge Essential
* Be able to demonstrate evidence of up to date knowledge of nutrition and dietetics and its application to CAMHS eating disorders.
Other Essential
* A full current driving license and access to a car essential.
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.
Employer details
Employer name
Norfolk & Suffolk Foundation NHS Trust
Address
G Block
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
IP3 8LY
Employer's website
https://www.nsft.nhs.uk/Pages/Home.aspx
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