Job summary
- Main area
- Therapies
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- 12 months (Maternity Cover - Fixed Term until 16-December-2025)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 384-JH-EMF17051-B7
- Employer
- Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Surrey Hospital
- Town
- Guildford
- Salary
- £48,270 - £54,931 per annum pro-rata - includes high cost area supplements (HCAS)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 13/10/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Nutrition Support Dietitian
Band 7
Job overview
A part-time opportunity has arisen to join our Dietetics Department at The Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust on a fixed term contact (maternity leave cover) to be a part of our Nutrition Support Team. The post holder will be required to work on Mondays and Wednesday in line with the needs of the service, the third day is flexible.
We are looking for somebody with excellent communication and organisational skills. You will be working alongside our multi-disciplinary team of dietitians, pharmacists, gastroenterologists, specialist nurses, and biochemists.
If you are an HCPC registered dietitian with experience and a strong interest in parenteral nutrition and intensive care, looking for an opportunity to develop your skills within a friendly and supportive team, we would love to hear from you.
Main duties of the job
This post is shared across delivering the nutritional element of the nutrition support service for patients at The Royal Surrey Hospital. You will have the opportunity to develop skills in indirect calorimetry and you will also be involved in delivering education sessions to healthcare professionals.
You will join a forward thinking dietetic team which undertakes the training of A, B and C placement students, and also focuses on research and audit in its areas of activity to promote clinical effectiveness in patient care. You will be encouraged to develop both personally and professionally, with the chance to shadow and learn from specialist dietitians.
Working for our organisation
Royal Surrey is a compassionate and collaborative acute and community Trust. Recognising that our 5000 colleagues are our greatest strength, we offer a comprehensive health and wellbeing program along with a commitment to developing and advancing your career. Our diverse and welcoming Royal Surrey family will ensure you that you feel valued from your initial interview through your entire tenure.
We are clinically led and provide joined up care by bridging the gap between hospital and community services alongside regional specialist cancer care. Our main acute hospital site is in Guildford with community hospital sites at Milford, Haslemere and Cranleigh. We provide adult community health services in homes across Guildford and Waverley.
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) have given us an overall rating of Outstanding.
Royal Surrey has a strong reputation and history to build on. We are proud of our achievements and we are investing in our colleagues through our commitment to supporting professional development as well as investing more than £45 million in our physical environment and new equipment in the next few years. There has never been a better time to join us.
Although it isn't the Trusts normal practice, adverts may close early, so you are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To take the lead role and responsibility to provide a high quality dietetic service to patients requiring parenteral nutrition support across surgical, medical and oncology specialties. To support the Nutrition Support Team (NST) in developing the nutrition service to the Trust from a dietetic perspective.
The postholder will be an integral member of the nutrition support team (NST) at the RSCH. The postholder will be responsible for leading and providing specialist assessment, management and education for adult patients requiring parenteral nutrition. To assist HPB/ICU/NST Team Lead with the clinical supervision and development of junior members of the department and students. The post holders working days must include Monday and Wednesday to coincide with Nutrition Team ward rounds.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSc in Dietetics or equivalent and registration with HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Hold, or be working towards a Master’s degree or other post-grad course to masters level, or equivalent qualification by experience
- Hold, or be working towards a supplementary prescribing qualification
- To have successfully completed the PENG course
- Member of the British Dietetics Association
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Significant post registration dietetic experience of managing patients on artificial nutrition support
- Experience in surgery and post operative care
- Evidence of continuing professional development and advancement of knowledge
- Experience of clinical audit and/ or research
- Experience in clinical supervision of dietetic students and willingness to participate in student training
Desirable criteria
- Contribution to management of staff i.e. supervision/development of staff, recruitment
- Experience in service development
- Membership of relevant specialist groups such as PENG or Dietitians in Critical Care (DCC)
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
- Nicola Porter
- Job title
- Appointing Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
For further information please call Mary Phillips or Sarah Dearlove on 01483 571122 Ext 3229
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
-
Royal Surrey Foundation Trust
- Telephone
- 01483 571122 Ext 2478
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