Job overview

We have a great opportunity to join our dietetic team at Ashford and St Peter’s Hospital. We have a 1.0wte (37.5hrs per week) B7 Specialist Community/Home Enteral Nutrition Dietitian vacancy for a 12-month fixed-term period to cover maternity leave. The role offers a wide range of benefits including the opportunity for flexible working, hybrid working, as well as a range of professional development opportunities.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and confident Dietitian who can work both autonomously and as part of our Community Dietetic team based at Ashford and St Peters Hospital. We offer support to a range of patients in care homes and the community requiring nutrition support advice, enteral feeding, and those with complex needs who are unable to attend outpatient clinics. The community team meets face to face regularly to support communication, caseload management, team building and staff well-being.

The team members work closely with SLT colleagues, other health care professionals, palliative care teams, carers and patients and family members to ensure that patients are receiving optimum levels of appropriate nutrition and hydration, provided in a safe and supported environment. 

For further information please contact:

Laura Platt, Therapy Manager for Dietetics [email protected]  

Kylie Bishop, Dietetic Clinical Lead Gastroenterology and Surgery [email protected] 

Main duties of the job

As a practitioner with a high degree of autonomy you will take responsibility for planning and delivering your own caseload, acting as a source of expertise on dietetic/nutritional management to patients, carers, GPs, consultants as well as other health care professionals in both hospital and community settings.

The Community Dietetic Team form part of the Ashford and St Peter’s Dietetic Department to provide nutrition and dietetic services to CSH Surrey Community Hospitals’ in-patients, care home and community-based patients in need of dietetic advice and review. This includes establishing and monitoring patients on enteral feeds in their own homes.

Prospective candidates should be efficient, enthusiastic and confident to work autonomously within a supportive team and their sphere of competence. They should have excellent communication skills, as the job will involve liaising with social care, clinical and community teams as well as patients and their carers.

You will need to be flexible in your approach to work.  Experience in a range of clinical areas of dietetics as well as excellent organisational and prioritisation skills are essential to this role. The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate excellent team working skills. The post holder must have a valid UK licence and access to a car.

Working for our organisation

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at Ashford & St Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust with our strong commitment to staff health and wellbeing. We are committed to providing continuous professional development, staff benefits and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

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