Employer: Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Stroke Pathway Assessment and Rehabilitation Centre
Town: Sheffield
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pa/pro rata for part time staff
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 23/02/2025 23:59
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 be able 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 team leader for this area whilst being responsible for a clinical caseload. 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 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.
Working Hours: 22.5 hours per week
Main duties of the job
Main Duties:
* Assess the nutritional status of referred patients by calculating nutritional requirements taking into account medical, biochemical, social, cultural, and psychological factors.
* Diagnose nutritional and dietetic problems, determine appropriate dietetic treatment and develop effective management plans in respect of 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 plan 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.
Working for our organisation
You will be working for an organisation which 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 policies to support employees in balancing their personal and professional lives.
Detailed job description and main 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 masters 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 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, proactive and flexible
If you are offered employment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals your information will be transferred from the Trac recruitment system into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system. In addition, in submitting an application form, you authorise our Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed.
Please note, all communication regarding your application will be made via email sent via the Trac recruitment system, please ensure you check your junk/spam folders as emails are sometimes filtered there.
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. Should you require any assistance in applying for the position please contact the General or Medical Human Resources Departments on the number identified on the NHS Jobs page for the organisation.
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: Lauren Gregory
Job title: Acting Deputy Head of Dietetics
Email address: lauren.gregory8@nhs.net
Telephone number: 01142712617
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