Band 7 Specialist Dietitian Outpatient and Post Covid
Job summary
Are you an enthusiastic, innovative dietitian experienced in specialist dietetic assessment of patients with diverse presentations with an interest in enhancing further your expertise and skill set?
This newly commissioned Band 7 dietitian post provides a fantastic opportunity to work in the developing field of post Covid syndrome alongside other therapists to optimise nutritional treatment as well as leading on the redesign of dietetic outpatient services in the medical surgical dietetic team following the changes in practice accelerated by the pandemic.
As Post Covid is a new and emerging area of practice there are opportunities to lead development of the Post Covid dietetic treatment pathway and enhance your expertise, research and quality improvement skills with training available to support your development.
You will link closely with the dietetic leadership team working alongside 3 other Band 7 team leads who working across Acute Medicine, Specialist Medicine, Surgery and Stroke.
We are looking for an innovative, self motivated dietitian. Excellent leadership, team working, organisational and time management skills are essential.
Your training and development is important to us. You will be well supported working as part of a friendly progressive dietetic department and Post covid therapy team. Training opportunities will be offered to support you to thrive in this role.
Main duties, tasks & skills required
Your role will involve triaging and prioritisation of Post Covid referrals to the Dietitian. You will have a caseload of patients with post covid who are experiencing dietary complications. In addition you will have a key role in representing dietetics at Post Covid MDT meetings and supporting with nutrition related queries.
You will also lead on evaluating and redesigning the current dietetic outpatient services to the Medical Surgical dietetic team as well as providing clinical dietetic expertise to this patient group..
Clinical work is across a variety of settings including outpatients, in patients home, working with individuals and groups with complex needs both remotely and in person, with some in-patient work.
Therapies at Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull hospitals as part of UHB is committed to providing a 7 day therapy service with participation in bank holiday cover for dietetics.
The Trust is a multi-site organisation, you may be required to work at any of the Trust sites and you may need to change your normal place of work, either temporarily or on a permanent basis, as a result of development or reorganisation of Trust services.
If you would like to know more please contact Catriona McClafferty, Therapy Lead.via email catriona.mcclafferty@uhb.nhs.uk.
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.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
Job description
*Please Note*: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential
Good standard of general education including GCSE maths and English grade C and above.
A levels or equivalent qualification
Degree in dietetics or equivalent.
Current Registration with HCPC
Experience
Essential
Demonstration of clinical experience enabling
post holder to manage a complex caseload of
patients
Demonstration of significant experience in
managing /leading others
Experience of training other staff / student
dietitians.
Previous experience of conducting audits and/or
research
Good clinical knowledge of specialist area of team
to manage.
Understanding of audit, clinical effectiveness and
its importance in the provision of a quality
service.
Awareness of local needs, eg; ethnic minority and
low income groups.
Broad dietetic knowledge of relevant specialism.
Evidence of CPD.
Awareness and commitment to staff CPD.
Awareness and commitment to appraisal system.
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:
Catriona McClafferty
catriona.mcclafferty@uhb.nhs.uk
Pay scheme
Agenda for Change
Band
Band 7
Salary
Contract
Fixed Term
Duration
12 Month(s)
Working pattern
Full-Time, Flexible Working
Reference number
304-48116YS
Job locations
Trustwide
Mindelsohn Way
Birmingham
West Midlands
B15 2TH
Attachments
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