Band 6 Macmillan Dietitian - Nine Month Fixed Term Contract
James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
BAND 6 MACMILLAN DIETITIAN Full time (37.5 hours per week) | Nine month fixed term contract
We have a fantastic opportunity for a motivated and enthusiastic dietitian to join our Adult Acute Dietetic Team at the James Paget University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust as a Band 6 Macmillan Dietitian. We are a small and friendly team that includes a range of dietitians from senior to newly qualified, dietetic assistant practitioners, dietetic assistants and secretarial support.
Macmillan has funded an oncology focused position which will enhance the service to patients with a diagnosed cancer and will provide specialist oncology dietetic advice and intervention throughout the cancer pathway. The successful candidate will be providing specialist care to patients from various tumour sites during all stages of the cancer pathway in both an inpatient and outpatient setting. As the role is a fixed term position, monitoring key performance indicators and collecting outcome measures will be essential from the outset to support the business case development for a substantive post.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a self-motivated, confident and team-focused individual who is passionate about oncology to provide dietetic care to this aspect of the service and work alongside the specialist multidisciplinary teams and the wider Nutrition and Dietetic Team.
All dietitians are actively involved in student training and host training to placement students from The University of Hertfordshire. You will be actively involved in these training programmes and in the development, implementation and audit of patient care practices as part of clinical governance. There will also be opportunities to develop supervisory skills through mentoring junior members of the team.
Job responsibilities
Please refer to the attached Job Description for full details of this role.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
* Postgraduate Diploma/Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics
* Current Health and Care Professions Council Registration
* CPD record should include evidence of in-service training and reflections of learning
Experience and Knowledge
* 12 months' Band 5 experience in a range of clinical areas within the NHS including enteral feeding
* Experience of working in the area of Oncology
* Evidence of acting in a supervisory manner, providing specialist guidance and training to other staff or students
* Experience of working with a range of professionals within multidisciplinary teams
* Awareness of relevant professional practice, new research and guidelines
Skills, Abilities and Competencies
* Competent to convey highly complex information in an understandable way
* Communication skills including empathy, assertiveness and negotiation skills
* Ability to build good rapport with a wide variety of people
* Ability to prioritise and organise workload and support others with this
* Ability to act as a confident and autonomous practitioner with supervision
* Ability to work proactively under pressure and work flexibly
* Forward thinking, able to problem solve with positive approach
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.
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