Main area: Dietetics
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 7
Contract: 12 months (Fixed term post to cover a career break)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 190-8857-DIR
Employer: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Northern General Hospital
Town: Sheffield
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pa/ pro rata for part time staff
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 25/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 06/03/2025
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are committed to helping our staff balance their work and home lives and ensure they feel supported, valued and appreciated. We offer many different ways of helping staff including career development opportunities, flexible working, good annual leave and pension schemes, health and wellbeing packages, and financial support systems.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Dietitian to join our friendly and expanding Dietetic Team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. We are pleased to offer a Band 7 Specialist Dietitian post within our Colorectal Surgery Service.
You will have joint team lead responsibilities working alongside other specialist Dietitians in the acute team at The Northern General Hospital. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate strong leadership, organisational, and communication skills at all levels of the MDT.
The post holder will lead the provision of dietetic service to STH inpatient Colorectal Surgery using a high level of skills and knowledge as an independent practitioner. You will assist the Dietetic management team to ensure the overall service provides a high quality of patient care and delivers evidence-based practice at all times.
The post holder will actively participate in the development, education, and delivery of training to dietetic staff, health care professionals, and dietetic students.
Main duties of the job
1. Perform dietetic assessment and calculate dietetic requirements of referred patients considering medical, biochemical, social, cultural, and psychological factors.
2. Diagnose nutritional and dietetic problems, determine appropriate dietetic treatment, and develop effective management plans in respect of planned medical intervention and prognosis.
3. Provide nutrition and dietary advice suitable to the patient’s medical, biochemical, social, and cultural factors, which is based on current evidence, incorporating local and national professional guidelines and standards.
4. Work within the pharmacy-led nutrition support team to provide advice regarding PN and appropriate feeding route.
5. Negotiate with patients to enable them to achieve targets overcoming barriers to change including dietary, environmental, and social factors.
6. Monitor and review dietetic care plans against outcomes, manage and adjust care plans to facilitate achievement of goals.
7. Ensure dietetic interventions can be implemented through continued collaborative interdisciplinary working in and outside Trust by attending and participating in multidisciplinary meetings, case conferences.
Working for our organisation
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest hospital Trusts in the country. You will be working for an organisation that values and respects all of its staff and the community it serves. The Trust is a leader in the NHS and research sectors and provides excellent benefits for its staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
* BSc Nutrition and Dietetics or relevant degree with Post Grad Diploma in Dietetics.
* Current HCPC registration
* Evidence of continuing development of teaching skills
* Evidence of continuing development in research/audit/clinical effectiveness
* MSc or higher degree
* BDA accredited behavioural change, counselling, motivational and cognitive behavioural skills courses
* Research and/or audit courses and experience
Experience
* Evidence of independent working
* Able to manage a complex caseload with frequently changing priorities, and deal with interruptions
* High level of knowledge of a range of clinical conditions and current best practice for dietetic management, particularly those relevant to colorectal surgery & TPN.
* Experience of leading a team of dietitians
* Proven experience in the area of colorectal surgery & TPN.
Skills and Knowledge
* Excellent interpersonal, communication, and team working skills
* Able to develop educational resources to meet the varying needs of clients and carers which are evidence-based
* Well-developed skills to train other health care professionals and student dietitians
* Evidence of active participation in clinical governance e.g. clinical risk assessments
* Evidence of undertaking and completing audit and/or research projects appropriate to work area
* Able to use literature review search methods, can critically appraise evidence and disseminate to colleagues in order to change practice
* Aware of regulatory bodies and professional bodies codes of practice and professional guidelines
* Experience of supervising staff
* High level of skills used in supervision and education of students including programme planning
Personal Qualities
* Able to document and record accurately in line with national standards
* Familiar with and able to operate all necessary IT packages e.g. email, word, dietary analysis, power point
* Positive and proactive
* Flexible
The Trust is committed to its obligations in accordance with the Equality Act 2010, and we positively encourage applications from all sections of the community.
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