Job summary
- Main area
- Nutrition and Dietetics
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 381-CT-6363125
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWB NHS Trust
- Town
- West Midlands
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Dietitian Paediatric Food Allergy
NHS AfC: Band 7
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
Are you an experienced clinician who is:
- Ambitious to improve services?
- Passionate to teach and inspire?
- Innovative and driven?
Sandwell & West Birmingham Nutrition & Dietetic Services are seeking to recruit an Advanced Dietitian into a newly created clinical leadership role within our expanding service. This is an exciting step for our service as we seek to build on our existing clinical leadership structure and strengthen our clinical representation as our services expand.
We are seeking an innovative individual who is driven to work within paediatric food allergy for our diverse population. Candidates will be joining a service at a time of considerable opportunity, working in the largest allergy service in the West Midlands. You will need to use highly developed interpersonal skills to foster strong relationships with a range of key stakeholders leading in a service that will strongly align with the paediatric allergy MDT.
The successful post holder will demonstrate advanced clinical knowledge and skills in paediatric allergy dietetics and a proven track record of leading for quality improvement within teams.
Our service covers all aspects of nutrition nursing & dietetic care across inpatient, community and outpatient pathways. The post-holder would join our existing paediatric leadership structure working alongside our Consultants & Advanced Nurse practitioners ; with the opportunity to work clinically with the chair of the Paediatric Allergy Committee at BSACI.
Main duties of the job
This is an exciting role at an exciting time for Dietetics, Allied Health Professionals and Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS trust as we seek to become the leading provider of integrated care bringing lots of opportunities for future development.
The successful post-holder will act as a lead clinician in our paediatric allergy services and will have the opportunity to work with MDT members to develop advanced skills in nutritional diagnosis and emergency management of paediatric allergy patients working alongside the multidisciplinary team to support the development of dietetic led food allergy pathways and nutritional care plans that support families to minimise the risk of food allergy being realised.
The Nutrition and Dietetics Department is a growing team of more than 40 dietitians and nutrition nurses; based across Sandwell and West Birmingham. We have regular departmental meetings, clinical supervision sessions and education meetings. Continuing professional development is promoted and supported.
The Department trains student dietitians from Coventry and Birmingham City Universities across the full range of placements.
Please see the attached Job Description & Person Specification for further details.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately 600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding.The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three strategic objectives:
- Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached documents for further details of the job including main responsibilities.
As a team, we live our core Trust values of ambition, respect and compassion. Our trust champions nutrition and hydration as a fundamental of care and takes a strongly integrated, person-centred approach where independence and early intervention is promoted and encouraged using ‘What matters to you?’ principles. We are looking for a suitably aspirational candidate who will share these core values and behaviours.
Interested applicants are encouraged to make contact to arrange a conversation or an informal visit to further understand the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc/MSc in Nutrition & Dietetics or similar
- UK Registered Dietitian with the HCPC
- Evidence of having completed an accredited course or equivalent level of professional experience at Masters level in the specialist area of food allergy practice eg MSc in Allergy
Desirable criteria
- Clinical teaching skills course
Experience
Essential criteria
- Past work experience in a varied dietetic environment
- Significant clinical experience post registration experience in paediatric food allergy
- Has developed expert practice in food allergy and/or paediatrics to include different ways of caseload management and delivering services
- Can demonstrate evidence of continued professional development (eg. keeps a professional portfolio, Diploma in Advanced Dietetic Practice, peer reviewed publications, presentations)
- Extended Scope Practitioner in accordance with approval procedure for extended roles
- Is able to demonstrate ability to initiate and be involved in audit / research activities
- Previous involvement with the pre-registration practice training for dietitians
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ben Biffin
- Job title
- Professional Lead - Nutrition and Dietetics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07866 004 652
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