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Job overview

Frimley Health Foundation Trust has an exciting vacancy for a permanent Band 6 Gastroenterology Outpatient Dietitian for 36 hours per week.

The postholder will work within the speciality of gastroenterology, providing dietetic advice for outpatients with a variety of gastrointestinal conditions, including IBD and exclusive oral nutrition, as well as general outpatient clinics. This role will involve some face-to-face clinics but opportunities to work remotely will likely be available. 

This is an excellent opportunity to develop skills and knowledge within this specialism. The successful applicant will develop strong links with the gastroenterology multi-disciplinary team and the wider dietetics team across Frimley Health Foundation Trust. They will also be encouraged and supported to work on audit and quality improvement projects relating to their role to promote service development.

Our department is a well-established team with dietitians working across many specialities. Our department values each individual within the team by supporting wellbeing, personal development and regular supervision. We strongly encourage continued professional development and support many internal and external opportunities for learning.

Main duties of the job

Main duties:

·         To provide high-quality dietetics assessment and management of gastroenterology and general outpatients

·         To act as a specialist resource for the Gastroenterology team and wider dietetic team 

·         To undertake audit and quality improvement projects to support service development, policy implementation and monitoring of standards of care/practice

·         To be flexible in times of increased capacity to the service

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for further details.

Working for our organisation

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust provides NHS hospital services for around 900,000 people across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

As well as delivering excellent general hospital services to local people, we provide specialist heart attack, vascular, stroke, spinal, cystic fibrosis and plastic surgery services across a much wider area.

We have three main hospitals - Frimley Park in Frimley near Camberley, Heatherwood in Ascot and Wexham Park near Slough.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

We are also proud to host the Defence Medical Group South East at Frimley Park with military surgical, medical and nursing personnel working alongside the hospital's NHS staff providing care to patients in all specialties.