Specialist Community Dietitian - Maternity Cover
NHS AfC: Band 6
Main area: Dietetics
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 6
Contract: 9 months (Fixed term)
Hours: Part time - 33.75 hours per week (Some evening and weekend working may be required)
Job ref: 381-CT-6826850
Site: SWB NHS Trust
Town: Sandwell & West Birmingham
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 06/01/2025 23:59
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
Job overview
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?
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 work with and support a specialist community caseload of patients who reside in care homes. The successful postholder will be a key member of the Integrated Care Homes multidisciplinary team delivering care to patients residing 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.
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.
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Detail of the role can be found in the attached job description and person specification.
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
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: Ben Biffin
Job title: Professional Lead – Nutrition and Dietetics
Email address: ben.biffin@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07866004652
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