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Come and join our team working in beautiful, sunny Suffolk!
We are looking for an enthusiastic Dietitian to join our friendly and supportive Dietetic service at ESNEFT. The role is hosted by ESNEFT but split role with the ICB providing support to the ICB Medicines Optimisation team who will provide clinical and professional dietetic advice on nutrition and the use of dietetic products. Within the Dietetic team you will be a key member of the community team, delivering Dietetic assessment and interventions to a complex caseload of patients in their own home and in a clinic setting working closely with a band 4 practitioner.
You will benefit from being part of an integrated inpatient (Ipswich Hospital), outpatient and community service that incorporates a range of clinical specialisms including renal, paediatrics and oncology. This affords lots of opportunities to develop and learn new skills, with a commitment from the service to support your continuing professional development. As well as being an integral part of our friendly SNEE ICB medicines optimisation team. While you will be working with dietitians across the ICS, this role will have a particular focus on Ipswich & East Suffolk and North East Essex provision.
Main duties of the job
The Medicines Optimisation team within the ICB are responsible for pathway, formulary, and guideline development, which includes nutritional supplementation. The team carry out ICB wide programmes of education/training for primary care to improve practice and prescribing. The team also use their expertise for clinical queries from clinicians and practices. They support nutrition related ICB cost improvement plans (CIP) for each financial year. They also carry out product evaluations, which will inform the adoption of cost-effective and safe nutritional support in primary care.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about delivering a quality, evidence-based service, who relishes working in a busy setting and is a strong team player. We are seeking someone with excellent team working skills with both Dietetics colleagues and the wider MDT, as well as an ability to work independently and flexibly.
The Dietetic service operates from within the Integrated Pathways Division, alongside our therapy colleagues in speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy. We therefore have excellent multi-disciplinary links. We also work closely with the Integrated neighbourhood community teams, and have close relationships with our AHP colleagues, under the leadership of our Director of AHPs.
We welcome enquiries and would be happy to arrange an informal visit to the Department.
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offers a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
Job description
Job responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
* Proven experience post qualification with additional proven experience at a senior level
* Experience of service development/innovation
* Proven line management/recruitment responsibility for junior staff
* Project management
* Facilitating training and education
* Experience of providing services to older people with complex needs - dementia, learning disabilities and neurological conditions enteral tube feeding
* Completed audit or research projects and evidence of application to practice
* Portfolio of evidence of CPD
Desirable
* Experience of delivery of structured education
* Experience of leading service development/change
* Multi agency and collaborative working
* Membership of relevant specialist interest groups
* Experience of working in or with GP practices/ primary care
* Experience of working with care homes
* Specialist knowledge acquired through non-medical independent prescribing qualification (nb. no prescribing will be undertaken as part of this role)
Qualifications
Essential
* BSc Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent
* Current HPC registration in Dietetics
* Member of British Dietetic Association
* Clinical Supervisory Skills Course/ Student training courses
* Able to travel routinely and independently across Ipswich & East Suffolk and North East Essex (and occasionally further afield) as required.
* Ability to travel between locations
Desirable
* Leadership qualifications, management training
* Post registration training/ highly specialised courses, working towards masters level in area of interest
Knowledge
Essential
* Broad knowledge and practical application of clinical dietetics
* Good working knowledge of relevant speciality
* Good knowledge of the MUST tool and food first principles/appropriate nutritional supplement prescribing initiatives
* Awareness of current issues in: Nutrition and Dietetics The NHS and Department of Health The Health and Social care agenda
* Knowledge of BDA professional standards
* Detailed understanding of and contribution to clinical governance issues e.g. health and safety, risk
* Knowledge of setting professional standards
* Knowledge of recruitment and selection procedures
* Knowledge and application of leadership and management theories, practice and skills
* Knowledge and practical implications of general legislation to the department
* Health and Safety risk awareness
* Intermediate IT skills e.g. keyboard Skills, Powerpoint, Patient Activity Systems
Employer details
Employer name
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Ipswich Hospital
Ipswich
IP4 5PD
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