Job summary
- Main area
- Band 7 Highly Specialist Diabetes Dietitian
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (minimum)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 382-CS97-24-A
- Employer
- Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Annes Health Centre
- Town
- St Annes, Blackpool
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 Per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
High Specialist Diabetes Dietitian
NHS AfC: Band 7
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is situated on the west coast of Lancashire, with services covering the local authority areas of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre. The Trust is part of the Lancashire and South Cumbria Integrated Care System (ICS) supporting a population of around 1.6 million people.
We have three main hospitals providing acute services to around 330,000 local residents. The organisation also provides specialist tertiary care for cardiac and haematology services, delivers community health services to over 445,000 residents including those in North Lancashire and hosts the National Artificial Eye Service across England. Plus, we provide urgent and emergency care services to an estimated 18 million people who visit the seaside resort each year. We employ over 7000 people from 68 different countries.
We welcome and encourage application from anyone with protected characteristics, as well as supporting reservists and Veterans who are looking for a rewarding and challenging career within the NHS.
Blackpool Teaching Hospitals encourages flexible working in all our roles to support staff in maintaining healthy home-life balance. Working patterns such as: part time working, self-rostering, compressed hours, annualised hours, term time, reverse term time and flexitime working can be explored.
Job overview
We have the opportunity for Band 7 Highly Specialist Diabetes Dietitian to join our growing team.
This is a great chance for someone to make a difference to the diabetes care within the Blackpool and Fylde area.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate must be competent in level 3 carbohydrate counting and insulin adjustment.
This role will include a range of clinical experiences including : group education, one to one clinics, MDT meetings and more!
We are happy to offer up to 100% remote working and a flexible working week, hours are up to 37.5hrs per week.
The dietetic department has strong a mentoring and supervision system in place, also has good admin support.
Working for our organisation
Blackpool teaching Hospitals is a great place to work.
The Dietetic Department sits across 2 sites, with the community team based in St Annes and there is strong working relationship with the acute team at the hospital.
The community team also covers: Home Enteral feeding, nutritional support for adults, local specialist obesity service.
We recommend that all individuals employed in patient facing roles, or those located on a ward or department where patients receive a service should be fully vaccinated against COVID-19.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The role will include a range of clinical experiences including: group education, one to one clinics and MDT meetings. There will be responsibility for the dietetic input into diabetes ante-natal and pre-conception service within the role
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc (Hons) Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics / post graduate diploma or equivalent
- Registration with the HPC
- Member of the British Dietetic Association (BDA)
- Teaching and training skills eg. clinical supervisory skills/ training for student training/ communication skill training/counselling skills training
- Experience in specialist field to master’s level or equivalent e.g. PENG qualification
- Member of relevant specialist interest groups
Desirable criteria
- Attendance at specialist group meetings of BDA
- Attendance at relevant multi-disciplinary courses/conferences
Experience
Essential criteria
- Skilled in the development of nutritional care plans
- Minimum 3 years post-registration experience, In depth knowledge and experience and competent in level 3 carbohydrate counting and insulin adjustment
- Experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Experience with student training including supervision
- Experience of teaching and training
- Awareness of research methods and audit skills to inform and evaluate practice.
- In depth knowledge of diabetes
- Keeps up to date with clinical developments, with evidence of contributions to clinical meetings / journal clubs
- Knowledge and appreciation of clinical governance issues
SKILLS/ATTRIBUTES
Essential criteria
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Ability to manage and prioritise clinical caseload
- IT skills e.g. word processing, use of dietary analysis packages, preparation of power point presentations, internet use
- Ability to teach small and large groups
- Ability to be self motivated and work autonomously as an independent practitioner
- Ability to work effectively as part of a team
- Ability to influence and negotiate to enable changes in culture and Completion of leadership training or course practice
- Good time management, planning and organisational skills and ability to meet deadlines
- Able to respond to unpredictable work patterns
- Reliable, adaptable and flexible
- Proactive and committed to raising the profile of the profession
- Committed to undertake CPD
- Ability to deal with distressed, difficult or abusive patients
- Ability to support and mentor junior staff where appropriate
- To demonstrate show confidence, motivation and leadership on wards and meetings as part of the Nutritional Support Team
- Advanced clinical reasoning skills
- Ability to plan and deliver a clinical audit
- Report writing skills
- Awareness of operational and strategic nutritional governance processes
Desirable criteria
- Completion of leadership training or course
OTHER
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates interest and enthusiasm for relevant clinical areas
- Motivated to develop the service
- Awareness of mental capacity act, feeding at risk guidance and ethical dilemmas in artificial nutrition
- Experience of policy and procedural development with respect to artificial feeding
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Denise Eggleston
- Job title
- Community Dietetic Team leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01253 957871
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
BTH
- Telephone
- 01253 957001
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