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Job Overview
We are seeking a dynamic, motivated and experience Band 7 Dietitian to lead on Medicine for Frimley Park Hospital and play a key role in advocating for nutrition across the Trust. This is a fantastic opportunity for a dietitian with a strong clinical background and leadership capabilities to step into a senior role, leading on a renal clinical area, representing nutrition in oral and hydration forums, and supporting dietitians in complex feeding decisions for oral and enteral nutrition. This post will also involve providing expert nutritional care to patients with complex needs, leading service development initiatives, and contributing to operational planning and quality improvement projects.
Job Overview
We are seeking a dynamic, motivated and experience Band 7 Dietitian to lead on Medicine for Frimley Park Hospital and play a key role in advocating for nutrition across the Trust. This is a fantastic opportunity for a dietitian with a strong clinical background and leadership capabilities to step into a senior role, leading on a renal clinical area, representing nutrition in oral and hydration forums, and supporting dietitians in complex feeding decisions for oral and enteral nutrition. This post will also involve providing expert nutritional care to patients with complex needs, leading service development initiatives, and contributing to operational planning and quality improvement projects.
Our department is a well-established team with dietitians working within 12 specialities. Our department values each individual within the team by supporting wellbeing, personal development and regular supervision, which creates a supportive team environment. We have a focus on encouraging continued professional development by providing internal and external opportunities for learning.
Main duties of the job
* Key clinical area for autonomous clinical practice will be within renal services, providing assessment and dietetic input for renal inpatients who are referred for nutrition support or enteral feeding.
* The post holder will act as a departmental resource to assist staff members dealing with renal patients elsewhere in the hospital and provide dietary advice to those starting dialysis, linking with the St Helier renal team to ensure a smooth transition and patient pathway.
* Support the integration of the Dietetic Assistant Practitioner framework across the services, ensuring evidence-based practices are consistently applied.
* Contribute to the operational plans that enhance service delivery, patient care and departmental efficiency.
* Lead investigations into nutrition-related complaints and incidents, analysing root causes and implementing corrective actions to improve patient safety and service quality.
* Participate in the Trust’s oral and hydration forum, sharing best practices, developing guidelines and promoting initiatives to improve patient nutrition and hydration.
* Lead on complex oral and enteral feeding decisions within medical directorate and provide clinical supervision and mentorship to junior dietitians.
Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.
Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.
We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.
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Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities
For detailed job description then please refer to attached Job description and person specification document.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Recognised degree in nutrition and dietetics or equivalent
* HCPC registration
* Advanced communication course
* Leadership or supervisory course
* Evidence of further postgraduate study in specialisation up to MSc level or equivalent
Desirable criteria
* Member of British Dietetic Association and an active member of specialist clinical interest group
Experience
Essential criteria
* Prioritisation
* Organisation and time management
* Effective written and oral communication skills
* Team working and autonomous working
* Presentation skills – evidence of presenting to large groups
* Ability to problem solve innovatively
* Change management
* Strategic thinking
Skills
Essential criteria
* Clinical specialist work post registration as a dietitian
* Training and supervisory support of staff and students Experience of audit and/or research
* Experience of audit and/or research
* Able to demonstrate a wide range of experience in all aspects of dietary assessment and treatment
* Leadership and line management
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.
We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.
We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.
We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.
Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.
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