Band 6 Senior Dietitan - Stroke and HCOP

The closing date is 6th Feb 2023

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity to recruit 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 dedicated 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, band 6 and band 5 rotational Dietitian to provide specialist dietetic care to a varied patient caseload of inpatients and outpatients across the sites. The team also includes 2 dietetic/SLT therapy support workers and 1 dietetic/SLT assistant educator, leading on ward based training. This role would be involved in providing support, training and development of the team. This team is integral to the specialty multi-disciplinary teams and you will be expected to build collaborative working relationships with medical, nursing and therapy colleagues in the specialty.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

-To work with the band 7 team lead to provide a professional nutrition and dietetic service to the stroke and older people service.

-Be a key member of the multidisciplinary team (MDT) and attend MDT meetings where appropriate

-Line manage other Dietetic Assistants

-Work closely with the Dietetic Leads/Specialist Dietitians at UHB to continue to develop the Dietetic Service

-Contribute to the training of Student Dietitians on clinical placement

-Based across Heartlands, Good Hope and Solihull Hospitals

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

-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

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: 

Linzie Bassett 

linzie.bassett@uhb.nhs.uk 

01214243771 

Pay scheme

Agenda for Change 

Band

Band 6 

Salary

£33706.00  to £40588.00 Yearly 

Contract

Permanent 

Working pattern

Full-Time, Flexible Working 

Reference number

304-48552DO 

Job locations

Trustwide 
Mindelsohn Way 
Birmingham 
West Midlands 
B15 2TH 

Attachments

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