Frimley Health Foundation Trust has an exciting vacancy for a permanent Band 6 Macmillan Oncology Dietitian. This is a great opportunity to develop your experience in various aspects of oncology, including mixed tumour groups, particularly: Head & Neck, haematology, lung and breast cancers. You will act as an integral part of the MDT and will support patients throughout their cancer journey from diagnosis to post treatment covering areas such as; chemotherapy day unit, acute oncology admissions, MDT meetings and telephone clinics. This role will also include a Head & Neck MDT clinic.
Our department is a dynamic, well-established team with dietitians working in specialities such as; paediatrics, surgery, intensive care, respiratory, oncology, gastroenterology, and stroke and rehabilitation. We are a progressive service which actively contributes to the Trust and national clinical governance agenda. The service is committed to training and development within; CPD and personal development, as well as supporting the training of students and junior colleagues, training healthcare professionals, and training carers and patient groups.
Please note that we are unable to provide visa sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.
• Clinical oncology speciality within in and outpatient settings such as; haematology ward, chemotherapy unit, consultant led clinics, telephone clinics.
• Be responsible for providing specialist dietetic advice for patients with complex clinical conditions within tumour groups, such as; head & neck, breast as well as gynaecology, lung, colorectal, haematology, renal and some upper gastro-intestinal cancers.
• Lead on patient related activity on haematology ward, cancer education and training
• Clinical skills in management of cancer and treatment related symptoms including oral and enteral feeding methods, and discharge processes.
• Co-ordinating discharges for oncology patients requiring home enteral nutrition
• Attendance at haematology MDT meetings
• Establishing Macmillan Dietitian as a core member of cancer teams and be the expert resource within the multi-disciplinary team
• Attendance and contribution to oncology related meetings; cross-site oncology dietitians, CNS, AHP and Navigator meetings
• Development and provision of resources used within oncology speciality
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.
We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties
Please refer to attached job description and person specification for further details, please note addendum to job description for further details on the role.
This advert closes on Sunday 22 Dec 2024