Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
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 part-time Specialist Band 7 Dietitian role within our small team at our Stroke Pathway Assessment and Rehabilitation Centre (SPARC).
This small team consists of two dietitians, based within a multi-disciplinary office. The post holder will be the team leader for this area while being responsible for a clinical caseload. The successful candidate must demonstrate strong leadership, organisational, and communication skills at all levels of the MDT.
The post holder will lead the provision of dietetic service to SPARC 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.
The post holder will be based at SPARC but will work closely with the dietitians at the stroke unit at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital.
The post holder will also attend and contribute towards team leads meetings on the central hospital site (Royal Hallamshire).
Main Duties of the Job
* Assess the nutritional status of referred patients by calculating nutritional requirements considering medical, biochemical, social, cultural, and psychological factors.
* Diagnose nutritional and dietetic problems, determine appropriate dietetic treatment, and develop effective management plans regarding planned medical intervention and prognosis.
* Provide nutrition and dietary advice suitable to the patient's medical, biochemical, social and cultural factors, which is evidence-based, incorporating local and national professional guidelines and standards.
* Negotiate with patients to enable them to achieve targets overcoming barriers to change, including dietary, environmental, and social factors.
* Monitor and review dietetic care plans against outcomes, manage and adjust care plans to facilitate achievement of goals.
* Work closely and communicate effectively with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) by attending and participating in MDT meetings and case conferences in and outside of the trust to provide the optimum outcome for patients.
About Us
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, including commitments to professional development and many policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the largest hospital Trusts in the country.
Job Responsibilities
Please view the attached Job Description and Person Specification documents for full details regarding this post.
When completing your application please ensure that you clearly demonstrate how you meet the role criteria.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications
* BSc Nutrition and Dietetics or relevant degree with Post Grad Diploma in Dietetics.
* Current HCPC registration
* Attainment of validated post registration qualification at master's level in nutrition support e.g., PENG update
* BDA accredited behavioural change, counselling, motivational and cognitive behavioural skills courses
Experience
* Evidence of independent working
* Experience of managing a complex caseload with frequently changing priorities and dealing with interruptions
* High level of knowledge and evidence base of a range of clinical conditions including stroke, stroke rehabilitation and best practice guidelines in this area
* Experience of leading a team of dietitians
* Evidence of experience in stroke and stroke rehab pathways
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
* Established skills to train other health care professionals and student dietitians
* Evidence of active participation in clinical governance e.g., 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 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, proactive and flexible
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.
Address
Stroke Pathway Assessment and Rehabilitation Centre
£46,148 to £52,809 a year pro rata for part-time staff
Contract
Permanent
Working Pattern
Reference Number
190-8751-DIR
Job Locations
Stroke Pathway Assessment and Rehabilitation Centre
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