Company Description
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.
Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust.
Portsmouth Dietitians are a team of over 30 dietitians and support staff providing acute and community dietetic services to adults and children in Portsmouth and South East Hampshire. We pride ourselves on being a friendly and supportive team offering a range of opportunities for development in specialities including oncology, stroke, renal, surgery, paediatrics and community dietetics. We provide placement supervision to student dietitians.
Job Description
Position Type: Permanent, part-time, 30 hours per week
Salary: NHS Agenda for Change Band 7
We are looking for a dietitian with experience of leading a team or developing a service, wanting to take the next step and develop their operational and clinical leadership of an acute adult dietetic team serving a busy district general hospital.
The successful candidate will be based at the Queen Alexandra Hospital, leading a team of 10 dietitians covering adult inpatients and specialist outpatient activity. The team is supported by a dietetic support worker and administration assistant. A friendly team, we pride ourselves on our supportive nature. Part time and flexible working requests are welcomed and accommodated where possible.
Job Summary:
1. To ensure delivery of acute dietetic services for the patients and staff at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust. (PHU)
2. Provide professional leadership for the acute dietetic service ensuring a culture where staff development, performance and wellbeing can flourish.
3. To ensure the acute adult dietetic service is responsive and proactively managing demand.
4. Through effective leadership ensure the dietetic team delivers a safe, effective, responsive, caring and well-led service where compassion is embedded and a positive patient experience is achieved.
5. Provide strong professional, clinical and managerial leadership and act as a professional role model.
6. Act as a deputy to the head of service.
7. Work across organisational and professional boundaries to support quality improvement and service development.
8. Maintain own clinical caseload within the acute setting.
Qualifications
Essential
1. Master’s or Bachelor’s Degree/Diploma in Dietetics
2. Registered Dietitian with the HCPC
3. Member of the British Dietetic Association
4. Evidence of personal development
5. Commitment to working towards Masters level qualification if not already attained.
Desirable
1. Participation in Leadership/managerial course
Experience
1. Previous experience in a leading role or managerial responsibilities – team, project, specialism.
2. Minimum of 5 years dietetic experience within an acute hospital setting including complex nutrition support.
Skills and Knowledge
1. Good Communication skills – staff and patients
2. Able to promote role of nutrition in clinical and health promotion settings
3. IT skills- conversant with standard office and presentation software.
4. Familiarisation and conversant in use of social media and its role in the business of the Trust and department.
5. Skills in self management and work prioritisation.
6. Experience of Student Training
7. Ability to produce education tools eg handouts, booklets, newsletters
8. Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to build a rapport with patients, carers and colleagues at all levels.
9. Ability to cope with an unpredictable workload and maintain a professional approach and standards of excellence.
10. Ability to present a high level of personal credibility
11. Ability to motivate self and others
12. Ability to support the education and training of others.
13. Demonstrate ability to lead and work within a team
14. Demonstrate ability to use initiative and be proactive.
15. Demonstrate ability to maintain quality standards and demonstrate an understanding of quality improvement methodology.
16. Experience of service development.
17. Clinical appraisal skills
Additional Information
The health and wellbeing of our staff is at the forefront of everything we do. We are proud to be able to offer our staff some fantastic benefits including our on-site Nursery, access to our free Beach Hut for those long summer days, our on-site Wellness Centre including a gym and a swimming pool, access to our fantastic staff networks including LGBTQ, Race Equality and DisAbility, and awards ceremonies to recognise your achievements. We believe we can offer support to all of our staff when they need it the most.
We welcome the unique contributions that you can bring in terms of your education, opinions, culture, ethnicity, race, sex, gender identity and expression, nation of origin, age, languages spoken, veteran’s status, colour, religion, disability, sexual orientation, and beliefs.
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