Main area: Dietitian Grade NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (Ends 5th April 2026)
Hours: 15 hours per week
* Part time
* Flexible working
* Home or remote working
Job ref: 236-SCO-P154-25
Employer: Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Salford Care Organisation
Town: Salford
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 Pro Rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/02/2025 23:59
Highly Specialist Oesophago-gastric Dietitian
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
Are you interested in the nutritional assessment and optimisation of patients with oesophageal and gastric cancer? Would you like the opportunity to work on a project delivering specific outcomes and facilitating cancer treatment decisions?
Due to successful funding from Greater Manchester Cancer, we are delighted to advertise for a temporary part-time Band 7 Oesophago-gastric dietetic role. You will be working as a member of the Greater Manchester Oesophago-gastric Surgical Multi-Disciplinary Team, based at GM OG surgical centre at Salford Care Organisation delivering a one stop OG cancer assessment clinic.
The role will sit within our Gastro Dietetic Team with an ACP, 15 Dietitians, 3 dietetic assistants, and admin and clerical staff. The team assesses and manages patients with both foregut and hindgut diagnoses. You would form part of the wider Salford dietetic team, which consists of nearly 70 team members across acute and community including assistants and admin.
You will lead on the delivery of the one stop OG assessment clinic, working alongside the Greater Manchester Oesophago-gastric Multi-Disciplinary Team including Surgeon, Oncologist, Clinical Nurse specialists, Psychologist, Anaesthetist/Intensivist and the Prehab4Cancer team. Your caseload will be predominantly UGI out-patients but with involvement of the inpatient caseload on the surgical and critical care ward as needed.
Main duties of the job
We require a dynamic leader to join our established UGI senior team who is adaptable, motivated and compassionate to work within this established service. It is essential that you are skilled in working as part of a multidisciplinary team specifically large scale MDTs in relevant oncological tumour groups. Experience of assessing and managing patients independently in an acute and outpatient setting is essential. You will be supporting patients throughout their early cancer diagnosis and treatment pathway and beyond so excellent communication skills and flexibility are essential qualities.
We are an innovative department so the role will include elements of research, service development, audit, and quality improvement. You will be expected to lead/co-lead in these areas and on the one stop clinic to ensure high quality care, collect and analyse outcomes and drive forward improvements.
Working for our organisation
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we’re always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire – to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading.
Person specification
Qualifications and Professional Registration
* BSc. or MSc. in Nutrition and Dietetics or Post-graduate qualification in Dietetics
* State registration as a Dietitian with the HCPC
* Several years experience working at a senior level with responsibility of other or larger scale project
* Member of the British Dietetic Association
* Higher degree or additional qualification in nutrition related topic
* Member of relevant British Dietetic Association Specialist Group
Knowledge and skills
* Expert clinical knowledge in UGI benign and cancer conditions
* Ability to communicate effectively at all levels and work in MDT
* Knowledge of current best practice in clinical field
* Expertise in obtaining accurate anthropometric measurements
* High level of expertise in nutritional support including enteral and parenteral nutrition
* Experience of working with bioelectrical impedance equipment
* High level of nutritional knowledge for the range of gastrointestinal conditions
* Evidence of CPD activities within specialist field
* Ability to interpret and analyse statistical data
* Experience of working in a leadership role (clinical or non-clinical)
We understand the importance of balancing work and home life. We are committed to supporting flexible working for our people wherever possible and all our colleagues are given the opportunity to discuss potential for flexible working. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) serves a diverse population, and each Care Organisation works hard to ensure all services are accessible and fair.
We respect the value of difference. So, our aim is to employ a workforce representative of the communities we serve. Regardless of age, disability, gender, marital status, trans status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, religion or belief, all are welcome.
We also warmly welcome interest from serving and ex-personnel, and their relatives. Please identify that you are a member of the armed forces community on your application form to be entitled to a guaranteed interview (subject to essential criteria being met). As a Disability Confident Employer, guaranteed interviews are also available to disabled applicants when essential role requirements have been met.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to the application process, please contact [email protected]
For posts advertised on a fixed term contract basis, we will offer secondments only for NHS appointments. Fixed term contracts will only be offered for external non-NHS appointments.
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Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should we receive sufficient applications or if it is filled via the internal redeployment process.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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