Job overview

The Nutrition and Dietetic Service at Lister Hospital have an exciting opportunity for a dietitian to join their acute team. Within this role, you will be providing dietetic care for the inpatient service in areas such as care of the elderly, surgical, oncology and general medicine as well as outpatient clinics within East and North Hertfordshire. Additionally you will input into group education sessions such as the gestational diabetes programme.

As a member of this friendly and dedicated team, you will gain varied experience across inpatient and outpatient settings, develop strong links with health and social care professionals and will act as a valuable resource for both patients and professionals.    

This post joins a larger team of Dietitians working across Hertfordshire within a number of specialties including paediatrics, neurology and home enteral feeding. We also work in collaboration with a number of other Trusts and stakeholders providing aspects of dietetic care to patients within Hertfordshire.

You will be well supported and continuing professional development is encouraged through appraisal, mentoring and training. There will be opportunity to partake in shadowing specialties such as critical care and oncology. You will be supported in your position as a student educator for University of Hertfordshire student dietitians.

The service is supported by a team of administrators as well as dietetic assistants and there are IT facilities to enable mobile working. 

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will:

• hold a clinical inpatient caseload as well as responsibility for designated outpatient clinics
• input to gestational diabetes education sessions on regular basis
• undertake comprehensive nutritional assessments of patients, making clinical judgements on a range of complex dietetic problems resulting in individualised management and treatment plans
• use real-food (food based) approach and where indicated, provide appropriate advice around nutritional supplementation 
• liaise with other healthcare professionals such as speech and language therapy, nursing, medical teams as well as others such as catering
• undertake service development opportunities such as reviewing and creating patient literature and nutrition resources, audit and contribute to clinical governance meetings
• undertake professional and educational activities to develop knowledge and ensure maintenance of professional / clinical standards
• provide supervision, feedback and training to student dietitians

Working for our organisation

A big thank you for considering joining us at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust.

You’ll find it a great place to work with many benefits offered to you as a member of our staff.

We put our patients, their families and carers at the centre of our vision -  Outstanding Services and Healthier Communities.

Our staff are proud to be Innovative, Caring and Agile in their work to help achieve the Trust vision.

We welcome diversity in our workforce and are interested in applicants from all backgrounds.

We don’t want you to miss out so we’d like you to know that if we have a high level of interest in this role, the vacancy may close prior to the advertised closing date, so please make your application as soon as possible.

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