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Job overview
Job Opportunity: Band 7 Highly Specialist Community/Diabetes Dietitian per week
Location: Barking, Dagenham, Havering, and Redbridge
Base: Harold Wood Clinic, RM3 0QA
Nutrition and Dietetics Team - NELFT (North East London Foundation Trust)
NELFT's Barking, Dagenham, Havering, and Redbridge Nutrition and Dietetics team is excited to announce an opportunity for a Band 7 Highly Specialist Community Dietitian to join our team. We are seeking an enthusiastic, dynamic, and confident professional to contribute to our growing team's success, delivering exceptional care across the mentioned localities.
Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities:
1. Highly Specialist Dietetics Assessment and Treatment: Provide specialised dietetic assessment and treatment for adults residing in Barking, Dagenham, Redbridge, and Havering.
2. Integration into Multi-disciplinary Team: Represent the nutrition and dietetic service within the Diabetes multi-disciplinary team to ensure a coordinated service delivery. Integrate nutritional advice seamlessly into the treatment program.
3. Patient-Centered Care: Demonstrate sensitivity, non-judgment, and professionalism in dealing with patients.
4. Accountability: Assume professional and legal accountability for all aspects of your work, including the management of patients/clients in your care.
5. Communication and Time Management: Possess excellent communication and time management skills to efficiently coordinate tasks and interactions with patients, carers, and fellow health professionals.
6. Line Management and Training: Exhibit experience in line management and student training, contributing to the development of team members.
Working for our organisation
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focussing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
High Cost Area Supplement - Outer London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (with a minimum of £4,714 to a maximum of £5,941 pro rata for part time).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Detailed Job Description and Main responsibilities
Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role and working at Northeast London NHS Foundation Trust. We encourage you to refer closely to this when completing your application. We welcome your application even if you do not meet all the criteria listed in the person specification. Any development needs to help you succeed in the role, can be discussed at the interview stage.
References
Please ensure that the references are from your most recent employer and one of these must be your direct Line Manager or Supervisor. You must provide professional email addresses for all referees as we will contact them as soon as an offer has been made. Please note we do not request references prior to interviews. Additionally, ensure that any gaps in your employment history are clearly indicated. All applications made through NHS Jobs account will be processed by TRAC System. Please note that some emails may go to your spam/junk mailbox so make sure you check this regularly
Use of AI
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used, then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent postgraduate degree
2. Registered as a Dietitian with the Health Care Professions Council
3. Membership of the British Dietetics Association and specialist group
Experience
Essential criteria
4. Recent clinical experience of at least 3 years with UK NHS experience (minimum 1 year)
5. Experience of working in a community setting, particularly diabetes experience
6. Experience of working as part of a MDT:
7. Ability to deliver training both internally and externally to other staff groups.
Desirable criteria
8. Experience of audit/research.
9. Experience of developing protocols and clinical guidelines
Knowledge
Essential criteria
10. An awareness of NHS priorities
Skills
Essential criteria
11. Clinical knowledge & experience across a variety of disease states and diabetes Therapies
12. Experience of: Enteral Feeding/Nutritional Support(PEG/PEJ/RIG/NG/NJ feeds)
13. Experience of Type 2 structured education
14. Effective organisational skills- to be able to prioritise and manage own workload within time and financial constraints
15. Problem solving approach - to be able to identify, analyse and evaluate a range of complex dietetic & non-dietetic, patient & non-patient related problems
16. Confident in line management support for junior members
17. Experience of providing support to Students & actively take part in student training
Desirable criteria
18. Experience of Type 1 structured education
Other
Essential criteria
19. To be able to travel efficiently throughout the area
20. Demonstrates ability to work as part of a team & flexible
Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
21. A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
22. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
23. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
24. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.
As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.