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 08/08/2025 23:59
Dietetic Clinical and Practice Learning Educator
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
If you have been working as a Dietitian with an interest and experience in developing and delivering training programmes and have been involved in dietetic practice placement this exciting new role may be of interest to you.
The post holder will get the opportunity to shape nutrition and hydration training based on the recommendations of the Healthcare Food Standards.
The successful candidate will join our team of 30 staff (dietitians, a nutrition support nurse, assistant dietitian practitioners and an administrative assistant) and will closely with our education team, our current dietetic placement leads and our Practice Placement Facilitator.
The Trust supports remote working and working from home for all team members as appropriate to their role.
The Trust is committed to improving health and wellbeing of all its staff and we are now fortunate to have an onsite gym.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will take the lead in delivering and developing nutrition and hydration training and for dietetic practice placement learning.
Working for our organisation
For any further information regarding the Job Description please see the attached additional documentation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Education and Training.
To support the Trust in meeting the mandatory nutrition and hydration training requirements.
To take the lead, working with the education and nutrition and dietetic teams to develop a Nutrition & Hydration:
-Training matrix.
-Learning and Development Programme.
-Structured learning framework.
To develop and deliver nutrition and hydration training using a range of teaching methods, programmes and packages to achieve the agree learning priorities and outcomes.
To work alongside other clinical educators to promote and integrated learning environment.
To keep up-to-date and contribute to the development of Trust wide nutrition and hydration education through attending the Inter-Professional Education Group and Nutrition and Hydration Committee as required.
To work in partnership with all members of the education team to ensure effective use of resources and expertise.
Practice Placement
To establish and maintain effective communication within the multidisciplinary team, demonstrating leadership and good working relationships with all levels of staff and learners
To be approachable, visible, flexible and available to meet the needs of learners, preceptees and staff.
To act as a role model, sharing effective practice and learning, promoting a high standard of safe and effective care which is evidence based.
To provide leadership, guidance and support for learning.
To support learners according to their individual learning needs, to ensure they achieve the learning outcome, ensuring a constructive and supportive approach.
To be innovative with teaching methods and learning experiences to enable learners to develop confidence, competence and autonomy in their practice.
To support clinical staff to ensure professional standards relating to supervision and assessment in practice are understood and implemented in practice.
To support supervisors and assessors to implement student programmes, supervision and assessment effectively.
To support the Centre for Practice Learning with learners focused risk assessments and monitoring of reasonable adjustment plans.
To support clinical teams to identify learning opportunities within practice areas, whilst encouraging the organisation of learner, preceptee and preceptor support within clinical learning environments.
Person specification
Other Factors
* Ability to effectively fulfil the travel requirements for the post
Qualifications
* Recognised teaching qualification
Experience
* Significant dietetic experience in an NHS setting
* Significant experience of delivering of formal / informal education sessions to a range of audiences
* Evidence of leadership skills and autonomous practice
* Evidence of of continuing professional development
* Significant experience in the supervision and assessment of students in practice placements
Skills and Knowledge
* Effective communicator with the ability to adapt communication style as required
* Influencing and negotiation skills
* Highly professional manner
* Clinical credibility with a wide range of professional groups
* Demonstrate a range of IT skills to evidence assessment decisions and produce reports
Personal Attributes
* Ability to work within a team and as an autonomous practitioner
* Ability to work on own initiative
* Ability to manage time and workload effectively
* Approachable, honest, flexible, enthusiastic and reliable
* Ability to motivate self and others
Trust 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 Melanie Coy Job title Head of Nutrition & Dietetics Email address melaniecoy@nhs.net Telephone number 01246 513745 Additional information
For further information / informal visits please contact: Melanie Coy on 01246 513745
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