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Job summary

Main area
Therapies
Grade
AfC Band 6
Contract
12 months (Fixed Term Contract (or secondment for internal applicants) until 16-December-2025)
Hours
Part time - 22.5 hours per week
Job ref
384-JH-EMF17381-B6
Employer
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Royal Surrey Hospital
Town
Guildford
Salary
£39,205 - £47,084 per annum pro-rata - includes high cost area supplements (HCAS)
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
21/11/2024 23:59

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Specialist Intensive Care Dietitian

AfC Band 6

Job overview

A part-time opportunity has arisen to join our Dietetics Department at The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust to be a part of our Intensive Care Team. 

We are looking for somebody with excellent communication and organisational skills. You will be working alongside our multi-disciplinary team of dietitians, intensivists, pharmacists, gastroenterologists, specialist nurses, and biochemists. 

You will join a forward thinking dietetic team which undertakes the training of A, B and C placement students, and also focuses on research and audit in its areas of activity to promote clinical effectiveness in patient care. You will be encouraged to develop both personally and professionally, with the chance to shadow and learn from specialist dietitians.

If you are an HCPC registered dietitian with experience and a strong interest in intensive care, looking for an opportunity to develop your skills within a friendly and supportive team, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

This post is based in the Intensive Care Unit at The Royal Surrey Hospital, and will provide some support to our nutrition support team for patients receiving Parenteral Nutrition in ICU. You will also be involved in delivering education sessions to healthcare professionals.

Working for our organisation

Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.

We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.

Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.

Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

A video about the Royal Surrey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R96pMboIYdo

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The post holder will be responsible for providing specialist dietetic care to patients cared for on the Intensive Care Unit (ICU). 

The post holder will be an integral part of the ICU dietetic team to provide a nutrition and dietetic service for inpatients receiving nutritional support in ICU. The post holder will support the Specialist ICU Dietitians and provide dietetic input inpatient ward rounds, and associated meetings (including regular MDT meetings). 

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • BSc in Dietetics or equivalent and registration with HCPC
  • Evidence of post qualifying and continuing professional development
Desirable criteria
  • Member of the British Dietetics Association
  • Membership of BDA specialist group (PENG/ CCG)
  • Driving license

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • Post qualification experience including nutrition support and enteral feeding
  • Evidence of MDT work
  • Evidence of experience in parenteral nutrition
  • Evidence of experience in critical care
  • Evidence of ability to manage complex clinical presentations
  • Evidence of teaching/lecturing experience to a variety of health professionals.
Desirable criteria
  • Experience of training/supporting others (including students) within specialist clinical area
  • Experience of working in acute and community settings

Employer certification / accreditation badges

No smoking policyMenopause Friendly EmployerArmed Forces Covenant Gold AwardDisability confident committedStep into healthArmed Forces Covenant

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Documents to download

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Nicola Porter
Job title
Appointing Manager
Email address
[email protected]
Additional information

For further information please call Mary Phillips or Jess Zekavica on 01483 571122 Ext 3229

If you have problems applying, contact

Address
Royal Surrey Foundation Trust
Telephone
01483 571122 Ext 2478
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