Employer: Airedale NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, Skipton road, Steeton, Keighley, BD20 6TD
Town: Keighley
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Closing: 21/02/2025 23:59
Interview date: 23/03/2025
NHS AfC: Band 6
Be part of our future landscape.
At Airedale, we are committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion. We actively encourage applications irrespective of people’s age, lived experience of living with a disability or long-term conditions, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
These are exciting times for Airedale. We have the once-in-a-career opportunity to be involved in the planning and building of a completely new hospital here on our Steeton site by 2030. By joining us now you’ll be a key part of our journey over the next few years, with the chance to input into a state-of-the-art, modern healthcare facility that will deliver care to our communities for decades to come.
Job overview
This is a very exciting opportunity for an experienced Dietitian to support the development, implementation, continuous monitoring, and improvement of the Active Together Programme.
The overall purpose of this role is to lead, establish, deliver and sustain the success of the dietetic element of the Active Together Programme at Airedale.
This role includes working under the guidance of the therapy operational manager for the Active Together Programme to take the service to full operational status, and with meeting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).
The Dietitian will also ensure the effectiveness and sustainability of the dietetic component of the service ensuring the delivery of evidence-based practice, better outcomes for patients.
Main duties of the job
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust is working collaboratively with Yorkshire Cancer Research to implement the Active Together model to individuals diagnosed with cancer in the Bradford district and Craven areas.
The Active Together programme will run alongside the existing treatment pathways to ensure patients are optimally prepared for treatment and beyond. It aims to maximise resilience to treatment, improve longer-term health, minimise side effects and empower patients to be partners in their healthcare.
The Post Holder will:
1. Support the implementation of the cancer prehabilitation services, in conjunction with the Active Together team, and service manager.
2. Coordinate dietetic input to patients referred into the Active Together Service.
3. Provide leadership for an evidence-based dietetic pathway for patients with a cancer diagnosis, with curative intent, across multiple cancer pathways.
4. Provide highly specialist, evidence-based dietetic advice, teaching and supervision to other members of the Active Together Service and the wider MDT.
5. Be responsible for the development of guidelines, protocols and procedures that ensure patient safety.
Working for our organisation
We are delighted to offer a wide range of benefits to employees including:
* Cycle to Work
* Travel Scheme
* Childcare Vouchers with Salary Sacrifice
* Onsite Nursery
* Buying and Selling Annual Leave
* Car Leasing
* Employee Assistance Programme
* Employee Health and Wellbeing
* Extensive Reward Scheme
* Counselling Service
* Financial packages including Vivup and Wagestream
* Staff Networks, Enable, Rainbow, Gender, Race Equality Ecoaware & Admin Network.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Degree or Post-graduate diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics
* HCPC registered
* Evidence of relevant continuing personal and professional development
* Member of the BDA
* Recent post-graduate courses relevant to Cancer/Cancer rehabilitation
* Motivational Interviewing and/or Behavioural Change qualifications
Experience
* Recent experience working with oncology and/or palliative patients
* Experience of delivering dietetic advice to groups
* Experience of multidisciplinary team working
* Experience of and recent involvement in student training
* Experience of developing and implementing guidelines in own clinical area.
* Experience of taking part in service improvement
Knowledge
* In-depth knowledge to support expert clinical practice in cancer care and rehabilitation
* In-depth knowledge of a wide range of medical and surgical conditions in adults, including artificial nutrition support.
* Knowledge of motivational Interviewing and/or Behavioural Change techniques
* Knowledge of the roles of other professionals and the principles of partnership working with key stakeholders
* Knowledge and understanding of the culture and dietary practices of the local community including minority ethnic groups
Skills
* Ability to work flexibly, prioritise own workload, and manage time effectively
* Excellent communication and counselling skills including observation, listening, motivational interviewing, and empathy
* Excellent presentation skills, both written and verbal, and ability to adjust style and content as appropriate.
* Clinical audit skills
Personal attributes
* Highly flexible to meet own and service needs and be open to new ideas
* Supportive, approachable, tactful, and diplomatic
* Always conducts self professionally and able to adapt approach to a range of situations
Other
* Current UK driving license
* Access to own transport
We are happy to discuss flexible working opportunities.
NOTE: This vacancy may close before the advertised closing date if sufficient suitable applications are received.
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