Specialist Community Dietitian - Maternity Cover
Are you passionate about care home nutrition and supporting care home services? Are you passionate about optimising the quality of life of others, enabling recovery following illness and driven to promote the independence and dignity of our patients? At Sandwell and West Birmingham, we believe that as dietitians:
1. We enable and support recovery
2. We empower individuals to achieve quality of life
3. We bring independence and dignity to our patients
The Nutrition and Dietetics Service at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust is excited to recruit a clinical specialist to work within our community dietetic services and with the care homes team on a 9-month secondment to cover maternity leave.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for an innovative individual who is motivated by MDT working and keen to support a specialist community caseload of patients residing in care homes. The successful postholder will be a key member of the Integrated Care Homes multidisciplinary team delivering care to patients in care homes. The role will include a caseload of patients requiring oral nutrition support and home enteral tube feeding, working alongside our community dietetics team to deliver nutritional care to people across Sandwell PLACE. The successful postholder will lead on the rollout of care home training in relation to MUST, nutrition support, and meal times across Sandwell PLACE, working with teams to support local care homes to remain up to date and evidence-based in terms of nutrition and hydration provision. You will work alongside our growing community nutrition and dietetic services and closely with nutrition nurses and dietetic peers. You will need to use highly developed interpersonal skills to foster strong relationships with a range of key stakeholders.
About us
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens this year and will provide care to our local population from first-class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH. If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continue your application with this understanding.
We have three strategic objectives:
* Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive, and engaged staff
* Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
* Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives
Job responsibilities
Detail of the role can be found in the attached job description and person specification. If you would like to hear more from our community team members, please click on the following links:
* Anna-Marie
* Grace
* Nicky
Person Specification
Qualifications
* HCPC registration
* Evidence of post-reg clinical update course or equivalent in relevant subject
* Portfolio evidence of CPD
* Membership of British Dietetic Association
* Membership of the Mental Health Specialist Group of BDA
* Attendance of student supervisory skills course
Motivations
* Able to support graduate dietitians and familiar with the requirements of clinical supervision
* Wants to work with care homes in a community setting
* Wants to work at SWBH
Experience
* Broad clinical experience working in 3 clinical areas including in medicine or community
* Broad knowledge of clinical dietetics including a specific focus on nutrition support in an institutional setting
* Experience of working as part of the wider MDT
* Involvement in audit or research
* Experience line managing qualified or clinical support staff
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.
Professional Lead – Nutrition and Dietetics
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