Job Overview
Frimley Health Foundation Trust has an exciting, fixed term vacancy for a motivated and enthusiastic Dietitian to join our team. The successful applicant will work closely as part of the multi-disciplinary team to support oral and enteral nutrition care in Respiratory and Stroke specialities. You will work with patients whom require complex nutritional care and this is a great opportunity to develop and practice skills and knowledge within these areas of expertise.
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
* The main roles and responsibilities will be within Respiratory speciality and this will account for a minimum of 3 days of the role.
* Conduct comprehensive nutritional assessments for patients requiring enhanced respiratory support and stroke specialities
* Develop and implement personalised nutrition care plans, including enteral and oral nutritional support
* Collaborate with the MDT to optimise patient care and outcomes
* Provide education and training to dietetics staff, healthcare professionals, and dietetic students
* Lead and participate in service development or quality improvement projects within the respiratory wards
* Manage a complex caseload, ensuring timely and effective nutritional interventions.
* Support the clinical caseload within the stroke speciality by liaising and working alongside the stroke Dietitians and MDT
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.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Recognised degree in nutrition and dietetics
* HCPC registration
Desirable criteria
* Member of BDA and member of a special interest group
* Attendance at student supervision training
* Attendance of relevant accredited courses
* Nutrition based course post qualification within specialty
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
* Relevant post registration clinical dietetic experience
* Training and supervision to support staff and students
* Experience of audit
* Evidence of working as part of an MDT in clinic practice
* Experienced in all aspects of nutrition support – oral, nutrition support and enteral nutrition
Experience
Essential criteria
* Ability to communicate sensitive and emotive information to patients
* Able to research evidence based practice and apply to practice
* Good organisation and time management
* Problem solver
* Able to prioritise workload and meet clinical needs of patients
* Excellent interpersonal skills including observation, listening and empathy skills
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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