Band 6 Senior Dietitian - Stroke and Older People Dietetic Team

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit to a Senior Band 6 Dietitian post within the Stroke and Older People Dietetic Team. Across Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull (HGS) hospital sites we have a large, well-established and specialist dietetic service. If you are a motivated and enthusiastic Dietitian who would be interested in developing your dietetic expertise and joining a friendly and supportive Stroke and Older People Dietetic Team, then this is the job for you!

This role will involve working closely with Band 7 Dietetic Team Lead, another Band 6 Dietitian and Band 5 Rotational Dietitian to provide specialist dietetic care to a varied patient caseload of inpatients and outpatients across all three hospital sites. The team also includes 2 Dietetic/SLT Therapy Support Workers. The successful candidate would be involved in providing support, training and developing the Band 4 Therapy Support Worker roles. The Stroke and Older People Dietetic Team are integral to the speciality multi-disciplinary teams; building collaborative working relationships with medical, nursing and therapy colleagues.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

Post registration experience in an acute NHS hospital setting is required to be able to support the team as a source of dietetic clinical knowledge and experience. Applicants must have good experience of close multi-professional working and demonstrate excellent communication skills and time management capabilities. Organisation, flexibility and ability to problem solve are essential as you will be working in a busy environment, across hospital sites. You must be resilient, able to manage and prioritise a patient caseload and supervise the work of other staff members, assistants and students as needed.

As service development is a key part of the role, we are looking for an innovative and self-motivated Dietitian. In return, there will be lots of exciting opportunities on offer for personal development and quality improvement projects; driving forward change and the development of new pathways within the Stroke and Older People Dietetic Service.

For further information please contact:

Sophie Brazier, Stroke/Older People Dietetic Team Lead: Sophie.Brazier@uhb.nhs.uk

Telephone: 0121 424 2673

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

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Job description

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description* 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

-Appropriate Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent

-Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration as Dietitian

Desirable

-Member of BDA

-Member of BDA specialist interest group

Experience

Essential

-Demonstrates clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients with complex needs in this speciality. This would usually be approximately 12 months

-Sound knowledge of Clinical Dietetics

-Knowledge of different types of Nutritional support

-Demonstrates interest/enthusiasm in relevant clinical areas

-Ability to work as part of a multidisciplinary team and dietetic team

-Teaching skills including supervisory skills for student training

-Demonstrates an understanding of audit, clinical effectiveness and its importance in the provision of a quality service

-Demonstrates an awareness of local needs, e.g. ethnic minority and low income groups

Desirable

-Experience of clinical audits and/or research

-Communications skills training or counselling skills training

Additional Criteria

Essential

-Excellent interpersonal skills- including observation, listening and empathy skills

-Excellent communication skills- written, verbal, one to one and group settings. Ability to work with interpreters and use visual aids

-Excellent team worker and ability to form good working relationships

-Understanding of multidisciplinary team

-Excellent presentation skills and teaching skills with evidence of presentations to groups.

-Confident - but recognises limitations

-Demonstrates excellent organisational and time management skills

-Motivated to develop post and show initiative

-Flexible in working across sites

-Able to work in line with HCPC standards and BDA code of conduct.

-Reliable, conscientious and flexible

-Ability to prioritise own workload

-Ability to manage busy workload and to be committed and be capable to work across sites

-Able to work with minimal supervision

-Able to achieve deadlines

-Enthusiasm and motivation to work in specialism

-Enthusiasm and motivation to work at UHB

-Enthusiasm and commitment to train student Dietitians and others

-Commitment to CPD

Desirable

-Computer literacy

-Able to contribute to 7 day and extended hours service provision as appropriate

-Able to meet the travel requirements of the post i.e. where off site travel is required e.g. for home visits, frequent travel between sites etc, it is essential to possess a full car driving licence

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact: 

Sophie Brazier 

sophie.brazier@uhb.nhs.uk 

01214240759