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Are you a dietitian looking for a new experience?

We have a unique opportunity to work for the Leeds & West Yorkshire ME/CFS Service and for the National Inpatient Centre for Psychological Medicine. 

The Leeds & West Yorkshire Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue (ME/CFS) Service is an outpatient service based at the Newsam Centre. We are excited to offer a 1-day a week secondment/or permanent position for a band 6 dietician to lead on and develop dietetics in the team.   

Working as part of a collaborative, holistic MDT in this fascinating clinical field, you will have the opportunity to use and develop a wide range of dietetic knowledge and skills in face-to-face and remote consultations. You will support patients experiencing unwanted weight loss and gain, IBS symptoms and food hypersensitivity, and provide healthy eating and supplement advice for fatigue management.

You will have regular access to clinical and management supervision and will receive a service induction.

The National Inpatient Centre for Psychological Medicine is a specialist service that receives referrals from anywhere in the UK for people with Persistent Physical Symptoms/Medically Unexplained Symptoms and Long-Term Conditions.  We are excited to offer a 1-day a week secondment/or permanent position for a band 6 dietitian to lead on and develop dietetics in the team.

Main duties of the job

To develop, provide and maintain a clinical dietetic service within Liaison Psychiatry services at Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. Act as a lead source of expertise on dietetics and nutrition for other staff, and service users including the provision of education and training and relevant research.

You will be joining a well-established MDT and you will have the opportunity to use a range of dietetic skills with a diverse caseload such as disordered eating; enteral feeding; diabetes; weight management; nutritional support; food intolerance and allergies; IBS; re-feeding syndrome. 

You will have regular access to clinical and management supervision and will receive a service induction.

Both services have well established MDTs, and the dietitian will form an integral component to this.

Mental health experience is desirable but not essential as the trust has an established management and clinical support structure including 12-month preceptorship trust wide programme (for all new graduate nurses and AHPs) to address all development needs. We also have regular clinical and management supervision, monthly trust wide dietetic meeting and access to peer support and other development opportunities. 

Working for our organisation

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.
There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.
We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank. 

Applicants should be aware that for any individual who requires a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only. This is an essential requirement of the role, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you are unable to meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa. 

 

 

 

 

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Applications are welcomed from candidates who wish to apply for a position on the basis of a smarter (Hybrid) or flexible working arrangement – please contact the Recruitment Team if you have any queries regarding this in terms of your initial application.

Where candidates are successful at interview, flexible working arrangement requests will be taken into consideration and may be accommodated where the needs of the service allow.

Please note that from 1^st July 2018, all new employees are required to subscribe to the DBS Update Service, DBS checks for volunteers remain free of charge.

LYPFT is committed to upholding its’ statutory responsibilities in relation to safeguarding adults and children.  Please refer to job description for further information.

Patient Safety is a priority at LYPFT with a  focus on system-based improvement and creating opportunities for learning. We will ensure compassionate engagement with all those involved in an incident and all incidents are met with a proportionate response. 

LYPFT is a member of the Disability Confident scheme and is committed to providing a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process.

As part of the Trust's commitment to its Gold Standard Armed Forces Covenant status, members of the Armed Forces Community are entitled to a guaranteed interview subject to meeting the role criteria. 

We welcome applicants with lived experience of providing unpaid care and/or support to a family member or friend with a disability, health condition, frailty, mental health problem, addiction or other health needs. 

Please note that the Trust reserves the right to close the vacancy before the closing date if a sufficient number of applications are received. It is in the candidates best interest to apply as soon as possible.

In view of Home Office Immigration Regulations all applicants must state their current immigration status, including expiry dates.

In submitting an application form, you authorise Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the ESR IAT process should you be appointed to the post.

 

In submitting an application for a role please ensure that you only declare qualifications that are relevant to the role itself. We reserve the right to check all declared qualifications on an application form, whether they are directly relevant to the role or not. 

If you have not received any further communication from us within four weeks you are asked to assume that your application has been unsuccessful. If you should have any queries regarding progress with your application form please contact us.

Please note: The Trust does not offer reimbursement of interview expenses.