Senior Dietitian (Band 6 or Band 5 to 6 development post)

Job summary

Are you are an experienced Band 5 or an established Band 6 looking for your next challenge?

Following a service review in our dietetic department we have a number of exciting job opportunities to develop your career which include roles in Acute Medicine, Healthcare of Older People and Stroke, Surgery as well as Specialist Medicine which incorporates respiratory and infectious diseases.

You will be working as part of a friendly supported team structure with a skill mixed dietetic team. Each speciality team has a Band 7 dietetic leader to support you and provide guidance in developing your leadership and management skills which in turn could fast track your options for future career progression.

In addition to leadership skills and clinical caseload you will have the opportunity to lead on audits and quality improvement projects to improve patient care delivery.

Alongside the senior colleagues within our teams we also have a wealth of specialist dietetic staff across our friendly dietetic department that support shadowing opportunities and clinical supervision. Your development is very important to us and encouragement will be given to support you to thrive in this role.

Applicants will ideally have experience; however this post does offer the opportunity for both experienced Band 5 dietitians looking for a new challenge at Band 6 level and graduate dietitians looking for a development role with a set of competencies which require completion.

Main duties, tasks & skills required

You must have experience in an acute NHS hospital setting and a good knowledge of nutrition support is essential.

The day to day tasks will differ; therefore if you have experience of close multi-professional working, excellent communication and time management skills these posts are great platforms on which to continue to build your dietetic career and are not to be missed!

An integral part of the role will involve developing your specialist dietetic skills as well as assisting with supervision of Band 5 dietitians, therapy support workers and students.

Organisation, flexibility and an ability to problem solve and apply clinical reasoning effectively are essential as you will be working in a fast-paced and busy environment, across hospital sites.

If you are a motivated and driven individual who is keen to contribute to the development of our dietetic department we look forward to receiving your application!

The Trust 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.

We would support applicants looking for part time or full time hours.

If you would like to discuss this post, please contact Adelle Williams, Team Leader and Dietitian on Tel. No 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.

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

Dietitian with qualification in Nutrition &

Dietetics (BSc, PG diploma or MSc)

* Registration as Dietitian with Health & Care

Professions Council (HCPC)

* Good level of written or spoken English

* Evidence of CPD

Experience

Essential

Post-graduate experience relevant to

post

* Experience of working as part of

multidisciplinary team and Dietetic team.

* Demonstrates interest/enthusiasm in

relevant clinical areas

* Good understanding of all types of

intervention for nutrition support

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: 

Adelle Williams 

adelle.williams@uhb.nhs.uk 

01214242673