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Senior Dietitian (Community Nutrition Support)
The closing date is 15 June 2025
This post is for internal candidates to South Tees Trust. If you are not currently working within the trust your application will not be reviewed and automatically rejected at shortlisting stage. Please be aware of this when submitting your application.
We have an excellent opportunity for a motivated and proactive dietitian to join the South Tees Community Dietetic team.
As part of the Adult Nutritional Support Team, you will work closely with colleagues across the South Tees community locality, providing expert advice to patients, carers, health care professionals, primary care and community based staff. The caseload will predominantly be delivering care to adults requiring oral and enteral nutritional support, through a mixture of face to face and virtual care.
Within the Adult Nutritional Support Team you will also actively participate in, or lead, quality and service improvement projects and developments.
Main duties of the job
This post involves travel as the service delivers care to patients in a variety of settings including clinics, patients' own homes and other community healthcare settings. The main office base for this post will be at Langbaurgh House, Guisborough. The community service uses Systmone, which facilitates mobile working.
Our ideal candidate will have a wide range of post registration clinical experience and preferably some experience in the development and support of other dietetic and support staff members, and dietetic students.
You should have excellent communication skills, including the proven ability to motivate patients and colleagues using a wide variety of approaches. Above all you must be passionate about working within dietetics using drive and innovation to make positive changes.
It is vital that you have the ability to develop good working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders across the health and social care economy.
The post will also involve education of students and other health care professional and support workers. We have been trainers for student dietitians for a number of years and are also now supporting the Dietetic Support Worker apprenticeship.
About us
Our wider service covers The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, The Friarage Hospital, Northallerton and the community localities of Hambleton and Richmond and Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland locality.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust offers leadership and improvement training to all new staff. This training programme has been designed to support our leaders in developing their understanding of leadership and management skills. You will be expected to attend the following training sessions
Leading your Team to Success
Leading Into the Future
Service Improvement for Beginners
Developing your Service Improvement Skills
The leadership and improvement programme aims to:
* Explore leadership within the NHS
* Promote Trust values and behaviours
* Develop your leadership effectiveness and skills
* Equip staff with the necessary knowledge and skills to lead and complete service improvements within the scope of your role.
After you complete these six and a half days of training you will be able to explore further leadership and improvement training opportunities. We also offer a range of additional in-house and externally provided courses and bitesize programmes through our Leadership and Improvement Team.
Job responsibilities
Please see the full job description and person specification document(s) for main responsibilities of the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Training
* To hold a Degree in Dietetics or equivalent
* To be registered as a Dietitian and fit to practice by the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
* To be committed to continuing professional development
* Leadership training
* Clinical supervisory skills training
Experience
* Can demonstrate relevant/varied post graduate experience across a variety of clinical areas including nutritional support and home enteral feeding.
* Recent NHS experience in a clinical setting
* Experience of supporting patients with discharge process between hospital and home
Knowledge and Skills
* Evidence of audit and participation in service development
* Basic IT skills
* Skills in the use of SystmOne or another electronic patient record system
* Membership of: British Dietetic Association (BDA), BDA specialist groups and other relevant groups
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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