Job summary
- Main area
- Dietitian
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 432-HR1897-24
- Employer
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ipswich Hospital
- Town
- Ipswich
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/01/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Dietitian – Specialist Community Dietitian *£2,000 Incentive*
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England. Our scale provides exciting opportunities for development, innovation, research, education and training.
Talk to us about our range of flexible working opportunities, apprenticeships and staff benefits
Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of all we do; and it forms part of the ESNEFT’s core activities. The Trust operates and relies on everyone treating each other with dignity and respect, to receive equitable and fair treatment in the implementation of Policies, Procedures and in its Practices, to foster positive work relationships, and finally to act with integrity as a professional within ESNEFT as well as a representative of the NHS as a whole. The EDI Agenda reflects the Trust values such as Optimistic, Appreciative and Kind. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan, People Plan, People Promise and a Model Employer intrinsic in the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Agenda, we consistently strive to improve, to take the learning into Action for a better ESNEFT.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Job overview
This post attracts a recruitment incentive of £2,000 pro rata (conditions apply)
Come and join our team working in beautiful, sunny Suffolk!
We are looking for an enthusiastic Dietitian to join our friendly and supportive Dietetic service at ESNEFT. The role is hosted by ESNEFT but split role with the ICB providing support the ICB Medicines Optimisation team who will provide clinical and professional dietetic advice on nutrition and the use of dietetic products. Within the Dietetic team you will be a key member of the community team, delivering Dietetic assessment and interventions to a complex caseload of patients in their own home and in a clinic setting working closely with a band 4 practitioner
You will benefit from being part of an integrated inpatient (Ipswich Hospital), outpatient and community service that incorporates a range of clinical specialisms including renal, paediatrics and oncology. This affords lots of opportunities to develop and learn new skills, with a commitment from the service to support your continuing professional development. As well as being an integral part of our friendly SNEE ICB medicines optimisation team. While you will be working with dietitians across the ICS, this role will have a particular focus on Ipswich & East Suffolk and North East Essex provision.
Main duties of the job
The Medicines Optimisation team within the ICB are responsible for pathway, formulary, and guideline development, which includes nutritional supplementation. The team carry out ICB wide programmes of education/training for primary care to improve practice and prescribing. The team also use their expertise for clinical queries from clinicians and practices. They support nutrition related ICB cost improvement plans (CIP) for each financial year. They also carry out product evaluations, which will inform the adoption of cost-effective and safe nutritional support in primary care.
We are looking for someone who is passionate about delivering a quality, evidence-based service, who relishes working in a busy setting and are a strong team player. We are seeking someone with excellent team working skills with both Dietetics colleagues and the wider MDT, as well as an ability to work independently and flexibly.
The Dietetic service operates from within the Integrated Pathways Division, alongside our therapy colleagues in speech and language therapy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy. We therefore have excellent multi-disciplinary links. We also work closely with the Integrated neighbourhood community teams, and have close relationships with our AHP colleagues, under the leadership of our Director of AHPs.
We welcome enquiries and would be happy to arrange an informal visit to the Department.
Working for our organisation
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Proven experience post qualification with additional proven experience at a senior level
- Experience of service development/innovation
- Proven line management/recruitment responsibility for junior staff
- Project management
- Facilitating training and education
- Experience of providing services to:- older people; those with complex needs – dementia, learning disabilities and neurological conditions; enteral tube feeding
- Completed audit or research projects and evidence of application to practice
- Portfolio of evidence of CPD
Desirable criteria
- Experience of delivery of structured education
- Experience of leading service development/change
- Multi agency and collaborative working
- Membership of relevant specialist interest groups
- Experience of working in or with GP practices/ primary care
- Experience of working with care homes
- Specialist knowledge acquired through non-medical independent prescribing qualification (nb. no prescribing will be undertaken as part of this role)
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • BSc Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent
- • Current HPC registration in Dietetics
- • Member of British Dietetic Association
- • Clinical Supervisory Skills Course/ Student training courses
- • Able to travel routinely and independently across Ipswich & East Suffolk and North East Essex (and occasionally further afield) as required.
- • Ability to travel between locations
Desirable criteria
- • Leadership qualifications, management training
- • Post registration training/ highly specialised courses, working towards masters level in area of interest
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Broad knowledge and practical application of clinical dietetics
- • Good working knowledge of relevant speciality
- • Good knowledge of the MUST tool and food first principles/appropriate nutritional supplement prescribing initiatives
- • Awareness of current issues in: Nutrition and Dietetics The NHS and Department of Health The Health and Social care agenda
- • Knowledge of BDA professional standards
- • Detailed understanding of and contribution to clinical governance issues e.g. health and safety, risk
- • Knowledge of setting professional standards
- • Knowledge of recruitment and selection procedures
- • Knowledge and application of leadership and management theories, practice and skills
- • Knowledge and practical implications of general legislation to the department
- • Health and Safety risk awareness
- • Intermediate IT skills e.g. keyboard Skills, Powerpoint, Patient Activity Systems
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
- Catherine Dyson
- Job title
- Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01473 704000
- Additional information
Vicki Saliba on 07956 435861 / [email protected]
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