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An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced dietitian with excellent clinical and team-working skills to join the dietetic team at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells (MTW) NHS Trust. This is your chance to shape practice develoment for our future workforce.

We have designed this new role to provide leadership for the Dietetic Stroke Team and to develop an education and preceptorship programme for students, apprentices, newly qualified staff and oversea recruits.  If successful, you will work with the manager for Nutrition and Dietetics to provide a safe, effective, and evidence-based dietetic service to the general and acute stroke unit patients.

You will work as an integral member of the stroke multidisciplinary team assessing, advising, managing and rehabilitating patients with complex nutritional and social needs.  Your team-working, leadership, supervision and communication skills will be invaluable, as well as your ability to work autonomously to manage your caseload. 

You will also work with other therapy and nursing practice development leads on developing a program of education and support for staff in the early years of work with the Trust.  

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

• This role will provide you with excellent professional and personal development opportunities.  You will be required to lead on the development and implementation of patient-centred nutritional management pathways and other service improvement initiatives.  You will also have the opportunity to be involved  multidisciplinary team nutrition training, audit and the development of the wider MTW dietetic service.

We are a friendly, supportive and innovative department with a commitment to patient-centred care and best practice.  If this sounds like an exciting step within your career, then we would love to read your application.

Please visit the video link below to provide you with an insight as to why you should come and join our fantastic therapy department at MTW!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhVNSbkYkX8

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust in the county of Kent.

The Trust provides a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people living in the south part of West Kent and the north part of East Sussex.

The Trust’s core catchment areas are Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells and their surrounding boroughs. We work from two main clinical sites: Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital at Pembury. Tunbridge Wells Hospital opened in 2011 and provides single rooms with en-suites for all in-patients – the first of its kind in the country.

We employ more than 7,000 full and part-time staff in a huge range of clinical and non-clinical roles across both of our hospital sites.

Would you like to work flexibly?  In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.

Please contact the Recruiting Manager for an informal discussion should you have any queries relating to the role for which you are applying. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted via an email as soon as possible after the closing date. Should you receive an invitation to attend interview, please confirm or decline your attendance. Interview slots will then be allocated on a first come first serve basis.

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