Employer: Royal United Hospitals Bath NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Royal United Hospitals Bath
Town: Bath
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 21/02/2025 08:00
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
The Royal United Hospital Bath Adult Therapies department is a modern, forward thinking and diverse team, with a warm, supportive culture. We celebrate the individuality of our team members, supporting our therapists to grow and thrive in their profession.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Macmillan Clinical Specialist Dietitian, with a passion for providing nutritional care for patients diagnosed with cancer. This role is maternity cover. The post holder will hold their own caseload of patients, having responsibility for managing those diagnosed with a variety of cancer types, including pancreatic and lung cancer. You will support more junior members of the team with supervision and attachments. This post would suit a Band 6 looking to move to a more specialist area, or a Band 7 looking to work in a different area.
The post holder will work closely with the current Macmillan Clinical Specialist Dietitian and will learn and develop alongside our therapy colleagues in speech and language, physiotherapy and occupational therapy, based within a new, purpose built building. There will also be the opportunity to work in the brand new Dyson Cancer Centre.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be responsible for developing a comprehensive Dietetic service for oncology patients not already under an existing Dietetic service, including those diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and other cancers where malnutrition is common at diagnosis, such as lung and colorectal, served by the hospital, acknowledging the support of Macmillan in this work. Key contacts include dietetic colleagues, oncologists, specialist nurses, and home enteral feeding teams.
Working for our organisation
At the RUH we’re proud to put people at the heart of what we do, working together as one team to make a difference for our patients, each other, and our community. No matter what your role is, we value everyone’s contribution in supporting the exceptional, person-centred care we pride ourselves on.
We are committed to creating a compassionate and inclusive environment. This can be seen in our growing community of staff networks – celebrating successes and creating opportunities to listen and learn. We value our differences, champion kindness and civility, and truly believe that diversity makes us stronger.
A culture of learning, developing and innovating is the thread that runs throughout our whole organisation. We want to support you to thrive, taking your career to its full potential.
We value staff wellbeing, with a well-established programme of support. We believe in a holistic approach spanning all aspects of living a healthy life, including physical, emotional, spiritual and financial wellbeing.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please find attached to the vacancy a detailed person specification and job description for further information about this role.
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
* Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent leading to HCPC registration as a Dietitian
* Evidence of further post-graduate study and continuous professional development relevant to post
* PENG course qualification or equivalent
* Post registration training in communication, behaviour change skills and teaching
Knowledge and Experience
* Post-registration relevant clinical dietetic experience in oncology
* Experience in all methods of nutritional support, including oral nutritional support, enteral feeding and parenteral nutrition
* Experience of working within multi-disciplinary teams
* Experience of working with palliative patients
* Evidence of participation in clinical governance issues in relation to dietetic practice
* Evidence of participation in audit activities in relation to dietetic practice
* Awareness of risk, clinical incidents, safeguarding and Health & Safety issues
* Behaviour change/motivational interviewing
* Experience of providing supervision to junior members of staff and/or students
* Experience of discharging patients from hospital on home enteral feeds
* Experience of evaluating Dietetic services
* Experience of working with pancreatic cancer patients, including advising on pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy
Values
* Values and respects others, treats everyone as an individual, is non-judgemental
* Motivated to be genuinely kind and caring
* Helps and co-operates with colleagues
* Pro-active and takes responsibility
* Willing to learn, open to change
* Motivated to make a difference in whatever way they can
* Takes pride in themselves, their appearance, their role and where they work
Specific Skills
* Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
* Familiar with dietary analysis packages
Physical Skills and Emotional Effort
* To be able to monitor patients' anthropometry
* To be able to frequently deal with patients and family members who are on palliative cancer pathway
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.
If you are interested please call or email to find out more.
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