Job overview
Are you an existing band 5 Dietitian looking to develop or broaden your skills or a newly qualified band 5 Dietitian looking for a permanent post that will form an excellent start to your career, or a return to practice Dietitian looking for a retraining opportunity?
Due to an internal promotion an opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic Dietitian to join our innovative and dynamic Dietetic Department as a band 5 rotational Dietitian. We offer an excellent band 5 rotation programme that will enable you to gain a broad range of experience in a number of clinical areas within busy acute hospitals and community working with a varied and diverse population group.
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Main duties of the job
We appreciate that student placement training can have its limitations. Our rotation scheme allows you to develop further into a variety of specialist areas and gain skills you may not have opportunity for in your student placement.
Clinical specialties you will be able to gain experience in include Acute wards, gastroenterology, surgery, oncology, diabetes, renal, weight management, paediatrics, community nutrition support and home enteral tube feeding.
The post holder will be provided with regular clinical supervision and extensive CPD opportunities and excellent clerical support.
The acute rotation will involve a variety of acute medical and surgical wards at Royal Blackburn Hospital and our rehabilitation hospitals at Burnley and Pendle.
The community rotation will include being a part of our community nutrition support team providing dietetic care to patients in their own homes and clinics.
The Paediatric Rotation will include being part of our Paediatric team and providing dietetic care to children on the paediatric ward and in paediatric clinics.
The WRD (Weight management, Renal and Diabetes) rotation will include being part of the WRD team and covering your own clinics in weight management and Diabetes as well as working with and providing support to specialist Renal, Diabetes and Weight Management Dietitians.
Working for our organisation
East Lancashire Hospitals Trust is a large integrated health care organisation providing acute secondary healthcare for the people of East Lancashire in the heart of the North West. We are a specialist centre for many services including hepatobiliary, vascular, head and neck and cancer
services, specialist cardiology services, a digestive diseases unit and being a network provider of Neonatal Intensive Care.
The department has over 40 Dietitians as well as Assistants and Assistant Practitioners and is well known for its innovation and development. It covers a wide geographical area and the post holder will be expected to attend all our hospital sites, community clinics and domiciliary visits therefore a car driver/owner would be desirable. The department offers training to all placements of dietetic students and the post holder will be expected to be involved in the clinical teaching and assessments of students on placement and training will be provided.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please note – Student Dietitians approaching the end of their training are welcome to apply, tailored employment options are available that will allow new graduates to commence in post as a Band 4 Assistant Practitioner until HCPC registration is received. We also accept applications from “return to practice” Dietitians and again tailored employment options and training packages are available to regain HCPC registration
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* •BSc or MSc in Dietetics
* •HCPC current registration.
Desirable criteria
* •Clinical supervisory skills
Experience
Essential criteria
* •Experience working or training in an NHS establishment
* •Demonstrable evidence of ongoing CPD in Dietetics
* •Experience of working as part of an MDT
Desirable criteria
* •Post graduate dietetic experience
* •Dietetic patient group education
* •Involvement in BDA specialist interest groups
Skills & Aptitudes
Essential criteria
* •Organisational and time management skills.
* •IT skills (competent in the use of Microsoft office applications)
* •Ability to interpret clinical conditions including biochemistry
* •Competence in calculating nutritional requirements and developing nutrition care plans.
* •Up to date knowledge of artificial nutrition support
Desirable criteria
* •Audit experience
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
* •Ability to respond to unpredictable work patterns and frequent interruptions
* •Ability to prioritise own caseloads effectively
* •Effective working relationships with the Dietetic team and wider MDT’s
Special Requirements
Essential criteria
* •Commitment to work across all ELHT service delivery areas as required.
* •Access to a car for work or ability to manage alternative transport arrangements