Employer Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Chesterfield Royal Hospital Town Chesterfield Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 24/06/2025 09:00
Community Dietitian
Band 6
Job overview
If you have been working as a Band 5 Dietitian in a community environment, and are looking to move to the next step, this role might be the one for you. We are looking for dietitian to join our community team at Chesterfield Royal Hospital providing dietetic services, mainly by telephone to patients at home and in care homes. The post will also involve seeing patients face to face at home, in care homes and in our community hospitals. Whilst the majority of the caseload will be oral nutrition support the post holder will, with support, get the opportunity to review patients who are enterally fed.
Whilst the team are based at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and there will be a requirement to come site for 50% of the time the post holder will be able to work from home.
Main duties of the job
To provide nutrition & dietetic services across the North Derbyshire health community.
Please see job description and person specification for main duties of the job.
Working for our organisation
As colleagues, we will always be guided by our Proud to CARE values :
Compassion: Treating everyone with kindness – welcoming diversity and inclusion, considering individual needs; and challenging inappropriate behaviours outside of our values.
· Ambition : Aspiring to be the best `– reaching high standards, providing exceptional care and services; and achieving measurable improvements in people’s health and wellbeing.
· Respect: Valuing and appreciating everyone – listening, learning, and acting on their experiences, being open and honest; and recognising that working with others brings benefits.
Encouragement: Opportunities for all – supporting education and development, helping people to bring their improvement ideas to life and speak-up; and getting everyone involved in our future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical.
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To provide a client centred nutrition & dietetic service to individuals and their carers at locations across the health community.
2.
To participate in the team approach to the care of individuals referred to the service.
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To liaise with the multidisciplinary team across the health community to ensure the nutritional needs of individuals can be met.
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To accurately collect relevant activity data required for service monitoring, management and evaluation.
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To develop evidence based dietary information in conjunction with other members of the community team.
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To provide cover for dietetic colleagues as appropriate.
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To provide clinical knowledge and expertise to the multidisciplinary teams based on sound knowledge of evidence based practice.
Operational Management.
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To manage and support Community Nutrition & Dietetic staff.
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To work with the team leader to ensure adequate cover arrangements are in place to deliver effective nutrition support services are provide based on clinical need.
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To identify and implement service developments within the community to ensure service objectives are met and to support the innovation and transformation agenda.
Clinical Governance.
1.
To be actively involved in the implementation and development of Clinical Governance.
2.
To advise the Head of Nutrition and Dietetic Service and the Community Team Leader on professional issues relating to community nutrition support.
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To work with the community dietetic team and the Community Team Leader to ensure the nutrition and dietetic training needs of nursing, medical and other staff are met within the health community.
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To contribute with other members of the nutrition and dietetic team to the identification, development and implementation of standards of dietetic practice.
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To represent the nutrition and dietetic service on community forums within the North Derbyshire health community.
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To actively participate in clinical audit and research.
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To participate in and support other staff with clinical supervision.
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To demonstrate a commitment to CPD by maintaining an up to date professional portfolio.
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To provide support and participate in the training of student dietitians and be the Dietetic Practice Placement Lead for the community service.
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To take the lead within the service with the other Band 6 Dietitian working with community hospital catering staff to develop menus that meet the requirements of the Healthcare Food Standards.
Person specification
Qualifications
* HCPC registered
Other Factors
* Evidence of ability to effectively fulfil the travel requirements of the post
Experience
* Significant dietetics Band 5 experience in an NHS community setting
* Significant experience of working with individuals requiring nutrition support (including enteral feeding)
* Involvement in student training
* Teaching experience
* Healthcare menu development and nutritional analysis
Skills and Knowledge
* Excellent written and oral communication skills
* Ability to work as both as an autonomous practitioner and as part of a team
* Ability to prioritise own workload
Personal Attributes
* Professional appearance and manner
Proud to Care Values
* Demonstrates the ability to meet the values
Flexible Working
If you're looking for flexible or predictable working arrangements, please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate this. If it works for our service and patients, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is committed to ensuring the safety of all our staff and patients therefore encourages and supports staff to be vaccinated against COVID19 as this remains the best line of defence against the virus.
UK Points-based immigration system
Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the United Kingdom (UK) are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Please note that from 1 January 2021, to work in the UK all candidates who are not UK or Republic of Ireland (RoI) nationals require sponsorship unless you have permission to work via another route. Non UK / RoI candidates wishing to apply can self-assess the likelihood of obtaining a Certificate of Sponsorship here Work in the UK - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .
It is vital that you provide full and accurate details of your current immigration status on the application form. Overseas applicants applying for entry clearance into the UK must present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided in continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
If you are applying for a vacancy in health or adult social care, you may be eligible to apply for the Health and Care Worker visa instead, which is cheaper to apply for and you do not need to pay the annual immigration health surcharge.
Communications
Communications throughout the application process will be via e-mail therefore please check your e-mail account and Trac account regularly. References are also requested by email (where possible). Therefore to speed up the recruitment process please provide an email address for all referees when completing your application form.
If you require any support in completing the application form, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Support Services team on 01246 513177 and we will be happy to provide assistance.
Please see the attached documents and links in relation to working for Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. In particular, the general conditions of employment and benefits of working for the trust.
This role is part of the integrated health and social care community across Derbyshire, where there are many opportunities to work across different locations and providers developing new and different skills. Whilst this role is initially based in Chesterfield there may be future opportunities to be based at different locations within the health and social care community which we may talk to you about in the future.
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Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Name Adam Jones Job title Community Dietetic Team Leader Email address adamjones4@nhs.net Telephone number 01246 513607 Additional information
For further information please contact Adam Jones, Community Dietetic Team leader or Melanie Coy Head of Dietetics on 01246 512173
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