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Job overview

Frimley Health Foundation Trust has an exciting vacancy for a fixed-term Band 6  Senior Surgical Dietitian. The post-holder will work within the acute adult team covering surgical wards and also a caseload of complex medical & respiratory patients at Wexham Park Hospital.  You will work alongside the B7 Surgical dietitian to provide oral, enteral and parenteral nutrition support. This is a part-time role until January 2025. 

The successful applicant will work closely as part of the multi-disciplinary team, support the development of the surgical department, raise the dietetic profile at clinical governance groups, train healthcare professionals and link with the dietetic services across Frimley Health Foundation Trust. This is a great opportunity to develop and practice skills and knowledge within this expertise e.g. training on parenteral nutrition skills.

Our department is a well-established team with dietitians working within 12 specialities. Our department values each individual within the team by supporting wellbeing, personal development and regular supervision, which creates a supportive team environment. We have a focus on encouraging continued professional development by providing internal and external opportunities for learning.

Main duties of the job

• To provide assessment, treatment and management of surgical and complex medical inpatients
• To provide an effective high-quality service to all in and outpatients
• To act as a specialist resource for the medical/surgical team and Dietitians with Wexham Park Hospital
• To be responsible for service development, implement policy and policy changes and to set and monitor standards of practice
• To undertake evidence-based projects, including recommendations and to develop audit and research in this area
• To be flexible in times of increased capacity to the service

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.