Main area: James Cook Cancer Institute & Speciality Medicine Services
Grade Band: 5/6
Contract: Fixed term: 23 months
Hours: Part time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 328-JCSM-6984707
Employer: South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: The James Cook University Hospital
Town: Middlesbrough
Salary: £29,970 - £44,962 per annum (pro rata)
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 12/04/2025 23:59
Band 5/6
Job overview
Due to expansion and development within our dietetic service at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, we are offering an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, motivated and proactive dietitian to work within our team. This will be a split post offering the opportunity to enhance your nutritional support skills working with patients with complex medical and social needs.
You will work 3 days a week in the speciality of Neurosciences within our Acute and Rehab Team. This caseload includes both acute high dependency and rehabilitation caseload working within Neurosurgery, Neuro HDU, Neurology and Neuro-rehab.
You will also work 2 days a week within our oncology team, including upper-GI pathways.
You should be a friendly and forward-thinking Dietitian with excellent communication skills and confident in organising and prioritising workload within a busy acute hospital. You will have experience of managing patients requiring enteral nutrition.
Please note, if you do not meet the essential criteria of the Band 6 position, a Band 5 trainee post will be considered with appointment to the Band 6 upon completion of competencies.
Main duties of the job
1. Working closely within the multi-disciplinary team to provide a dietetic service to all wards within the Neurosciences.
2. Provide specialist dietetic support, particularly to those with complex nutritional needs (both oral and enteral) across a range of neurology conditions within the acute setting such as traumatic brain injury, neuro-oncology conditions, Gullian Barrie syndrome, Myasthenia Gravis, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s Disease and Motor Neurone Disease.
3. Working with Oncology Dietetic colleagues to provide a service to cancer patients, including Upper-GI cancer, covering outpatient and inpatient areas.
4. The post holder will be actively encouraged to participate in service improvement, audit and continuous professional development activities.
Working for our organisation
We have been trainers for student dietitians for many years, with the programmes shared across all of our localities. We are a tertiary centre for many clinical specialities including major trauma, cardiothoracic surgery, regional spinal injuries unit, upper GI surgery, head and neck/Oro maxillofacial surgery and spinal cord injuries.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions:
* Your Leadership Impact
* Leading your Team to Success
* Leading Into the Future
* Service Improvement for Beginners
The leadership and improvement programme aims to:
* Explore leadership within the NHS
* Promote Trust values and behaviours
* Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
* Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Knowledge and Skills - B5/6
* Evidence of audit and participation in service development
* Basic IT skills
* Skills with use of systmone and other electronic patient records
Qualifications - B5/6
* To hold a Degree in Dietetics or equivalent
* To be registered as a Dietitian and fit to practice by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
* To demonstrate commitment to continuing professional development
Qualifications - B6
* Leadership training
* Completion of HEI recognised clinical supervisory skills training
Qualifications - B5
* To have undertaken and successfully completed a postgraduate preceptorship programme (or equivalent) for Band 5s
* Completion of HEI recognised clinical supervisory skills training
Experience - B6
* Can demonstrate relevant and varied post graduate experience within an acute inpatient setting.
* Can demonstrate relevant and varied post graduate experience across a variety of clinical specialities, ideally including working with patients within oncology/neurosciences
* Experienced and competent with enteral feeding and the home enteral feeding discharge process
Experience - B5
* Can demonstrate relevant/varied post graduate experience across a variety of clinical areas.
* Experience with enteral feeding and the home enteral feeding discharge process
* Can demonstrate relevant and varied post graduate experience within an acute inpatient setting.
* Experience with working with patients with complex nutritional needs, such as patients with cancer or neurological disorders
Disclosure and Barring Checks (DBS)
It is now the policy of South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who are new to the Trust who require DBS clearance for the post they have been offered, are required to pay the cost of their DBS. The method of payment for this is via salary deduction from your first month's pay.
Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post.
As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you.
The Trust encourages and supports all applicants to be fully vaccinated against both COVID19 and influenza.
Please be aware, there are occasions where some vacancies may close prior to the closing date advertised. This will only happen where sufficient applications are received AND will be made evident on the job advert.
Please note if you are successfully shortlisted, we will contact you via the email address that you have applied from so please ensure you check your emails regularly.
Existing employees of South Tees NHS Foundation Trust currently on the Redeployment Register, who meet the essential criteria for this post, will be shortlisted and interviewed prior to all other applicants.
IMPORTANT-Please ensure you read the 'Guidance Notes for Applicants' document attached to this advert before you start to complete your application form.
This document provides detailed advice regarding the completion of your application form.
The guidance document also provides in detail what identification and certificates you must provide at interview should you be shortlisted.
As part of our pre-employment screening process, all applicants are required to provide references from their last continuous 3 year employment and/or training/education. The referees MUST be a Line Manager/Supervisor. Applicants are requested to ensure email addresses for all referees are included on their application form. Personal references and references from colleagues are not acceptable.
Unfortunately we are unable to respond to all applicants and those who are not contacted within six weeks of the closing date should assume that their application has been unsuccessful.
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.
Name: Georgia Payne
Job title: Head of Dietetics and Adult Speech Therapy
Email address: georgia.payne@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01642 854777
Additional information
or
Clare Lord-Hatton, Operational Lead Dietitian or Emma Wood, Clinical Lead Acute and Rehab Team via Dietetics Main Office Team: 01642 854777 (internal ext 54777)
If you have problems applying, contact
Address: The Recruitment Team
The Murray Building
The James Cook University Hospital
TS4 3BW
Telephone: 01642 850850, ext. 57396
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