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Clinical Specialist Dietitian
The closing date is 02 July 2025
We are looking for an experienced and motivated dietitian with advanced clinical knowledge and skills. If this is you, there is an exciting opportunity at Fairfield General Hospital in Bury.
As a clinical lead, you will ensure we deliver a high-quality service to our patients. You will have exceptional communication skills and use your expert clinical knowledge to support staff and service development.
You will have the opportunity to use and develop your leadership skills. You will support and supervise students, Dietetic Assistants, and other dietitians, as well as playing a key role in raising the profile of dietetics.
This post provides an opportunity to work with other dietitians in general medicine, stroke, and critical care. There will also be opportunity to work with patients with eating disorders / disordered eating admitted for acute medical intervention.
There will be opportunities to share good practice across the wider dietetic team at other hospital sites in the Northern Care Alliance.
Development posts will be considered.
Main duties of the job
You will be the clinical lead for dietetics working alongside senior colleagues to provide highquality nutritional assessment and intervention for our patients. You will ensure we provideevidence-based intervention and support staff and service development.
About us
The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.
As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.
In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.
Job responsibilities
To read more information about the advertised role, and the main job duties/responsibilities please open the Job Description and Person Specification located under the supporting documents heading. You can also read more information about working at the Northern Care Alliance within the attached Candidate Information Pack or by visiting our careers website:www.careers.northerncarealliance.nhs.uk
Person Specification
Qualifications
Registration
* HCPC Registration
* Member of the BDA
* Member of specialist groups
Knowledge
* Extensive clinical experience of nutritional support including enteral feeding
* Extensive experience of parenteral nutrition and critical care
* Advanced clinical supervisory skills
Skills
* Demonstrates good written communication skills without the use of Artificial Intelligence applications for example ChatGPT.
* Ability to work in stressful and unpredictable environment
* Evidence of training others
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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