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Galashiels Health Centre and Borders General Hospital
This post offer an excellent opportunity for a newly qualified or more experienced Band 5 Dietitian wishing to work within Community, Acute, Paediatric and Weight Management Dietetic services, developing within a broad range of clinical specialities. We are looking for a dietitian with clinical expertise and excellent communication and motivation skills. The post will be a rotational post within the Community, Acute, Paediatric and Weight Management teams, initially within the Community team.
The community rotation will be working alongside our band 6 community dietetics team and dietetic support worker. The post involves support to individuals and groups and requires travelling to cover outpatient clinics, domiciliary visits and care homes across NHS Borders community.
The acute rotation is based at Borders General Hospital, working closely with our, Band 6 dietitians, and Dietetic Support Worker to deliver dietetic services to individuals and in group settings. Clinical areas will include general medicine, stroke, renal, general surgery and ITU.
The Paediatric/Weight Management post is based at Borders General Hospital and in community clinic settings. You will work closely weight management dietitians to deliver Tier 3 weight management both to individuals and in group settings. The paediatric clinical work will involve working with our existing Band 7 and Band 6 dietitians, both in an acute and community setting.
The post holder will be supported to complete the Flying Start programme. Supervision and support will be provided to enable you to play an active part in the department and develop your clinical skills. You will be joining join a well-respected team of dietitians with a commitment to staff development, quality improvement and clinical excellence. The department has good IT facilities and utilises online patient management systems.
The Scottish Borders is within commuting distance from Edinburgh.
For the community and weight management setting you will be required to travel in order to deliver service needs, and a driving licence is essential.
For further information, please contact:
* Ann O’Connor (Community Team Lead Dietitian)
o Tel no: 07929 760521
o Email: ann.oconnor@nhs.scot
* Alison MacGregor (Community Dietitian)
o Tel no: 07855 146712
o Email: Alison.macgregor5@nhs.scot
Due to legislative changes from 1 April 2025, this post may require a different level of criminal records check done than is currently the case. If the post is assessed as a "regulated role", your appointment will be subject to joining the Protecting Vulnerable Groups (PVG) Scheme. If there is any change to what is currently required, this will be confirmed by either the Hiring Manager or the Recruitment Team. For more details on these changes please visit: Disclosure Scotland Changes .
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As part of the pre-employment checks for a preferred candidate, NHS Scotland Boards will check your entitlement to work in the UK. It can be evidenced through a number of routes including specific types of visa as well as EU settled and pre-settled status. To find out more about these routes of permission, please refer to the GOV.UK website here .
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