Contact information
Emma Warren
emma.warren20@nhs.net
01924 544751
About the role
An exciting opportunity has arisen at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS trust for a Specialist Dietitian in Prehab Oncology Services to join our acute team in a 1.0WTE Band 6 position. The post is currently fixed term with an end date of 31st March 2027.
You should have experience working as dietitian across a range of specialities, including oncology and nutritional support. You will work alongside the Band 7 Clinical Specialist Oncology Prehab Dietitian covering cancer sites including (but not restricted to) Colorectal, Lung, Haematology and Urology. The post holder will also support the Clinical Specialist Dietitians for Upper GI and Head and Neck, as required.
Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, Kirklees Active Leisure Trust and Wakefield Councils are working collaboratively with Yorkshire Cancer Research and Sheffield Hallam University to implement the Active Together model to individuals diagnosed with cancer in Wakefield and North Kirklees.
The Active Together programme works with patients undergoing cancer treatments and runs alongside the existing diagnostic and treatment pathways to ensure patients are optimally prepared for treatment and beyond. It aims to maximise resilience to treatment, improve longer term health, minimise side effects and empower patients to be partners in their healthcare.
For all relevant cancer pathways, patients will receive individual assessments and be triaged into a support pathway suitable to their needs. This may be delivered in Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, selected council and Leisure facilities closest to the patient’s home or may be a self-management pathway.
The post holder will be required to work at any location where the Trust provides services.
The dietetic department is fully committed to CPD and clinical supervision. As we take A, B and C students from Leeds Beckett University, the post holder will also be expected to take an active role in supporting and supervising our student training program.
When applying for this post it is essential that you read the job description and person specification. Use the “supporting information” space on the application form to demonstrate how your skills, knowledge and previous experience meet the job description requirements and which clinical areas you have experience in.
It is essential that you are able to attend any location required of you, including patient’s homes therefore being a car driver with access to a vehicle to support home visits is desirable.
NB. Although this post is currently fixed term, we are hoping the funding will be extended but this is still to be confirmed.
For further information please contact Emma Warren Clinical Specialist Dietitian for Oncology Prehab on 01924 544751.
Main duties
* To be a key member of the multi-disciplinary Prehab Oncology team and to personally provide dietetic support to patients within the Prehab Oncology services at the 3 hospital sites.
* To provide full management of care including nutritional assessment, dietetic treatment and advice and monitoring of inpatients and outpatients in a variety of different settings/locations
* To educate and train patients/carers and health professionals including medical staff and external organisations e.g. CCGs, Care Homes, Voluntary Organisations, and Higher Education Institutions in Nutrition and Dietetics, related to Oncology conditions
* To jointly lead in departmental and multi-disciplinary team audits and research in this speciality
* To participate in the education and training of dietetic students during their clinical placements
* To undertake the measurement and evaluation of own work and current practices through the use and application of evidence based practice, audit, research and outcome measures, and lead others in doing so as required. Make recommendations to changes in clinical practice and lead implementation of new working practices in nutrition and Oncology Prehabilitation.
* To provide timely nutritional support via most appropriate route to patients identified as being at nutritional risk
* To provide dietetic advice for relief of treatment related symptoms, e.g. taste changes, dry mouth, nausea, diarrhoea, lethargy etc
* To develop and implement treatment plans and patient centred goals for patients following assessment and analysis of condition, nutritional history, biochemical and clinical data, drug interactions, social and cultural circumstances.
* To provide highly complex sensitive nutritional counselling to patients and carers using cognitive behavioural therapy and motivational interviewing to overcome barriers to change and effect behavioural change.
Essential person specification requirements
* B.Sc. Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent
* Health and Care Professions Council Registered
* Significant experience in working in Nutrition and Dietetics
* Good experience of working with Nutritional Support patients
* Experience of working with oncology patients
* Understanding of clinical governance
* Health and Safety awareness
* Understanding of a wide range of communication skills and their application in a variety of clinical settings
* Excellent written and oral communication skills with individual patients and their carers, public groups, medical and other professional practitioners
* Communicates complex diagnosis gaining consent and understanding of treatment plans required
* Communicates highly complex information overcoming barriers to understanding
* Communicate specialised and sensitive information with empathy and understanding.
* Be able to get to different locations, including home visits
* Able to fulfil the Occupational Health requirements of the post
* Access to a vehicle with the ability to travel independently in line with requirements.
Be part of MY team
We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff work in patients’ homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield). We prioritise our people and values so we can deliver the best possible care to patients. Our team is friendly, passionate, and innovative, always seeking better ways to work.
We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces to share ideas and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and especially encourage members of the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minority groups, and people with disabilities or neurodivergence to apply, as they are currently underrepresented in the Trust.
If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.
Application guidance:
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Our benefits
* Access to the NHS pension plan
* Generous holiday allowance of 27 days plus bank holidays, increasing with 5 and 10 years of service
* Exceptional employee health and wellbeing services
* Extensive benefits and support, including:
* Onsite nurseries and childcare salary sacrifice scheme
* Home electronics scheme
* Cycle to work scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
* Car lease salary sacrifice scheme - subject to eligibility criteria
* Working carers support and advice, carers network and carers passport
* Flexible working options and family and carer-friendly policies
* Established staff networks, including LGBTQ+ and Race Equality
* Career progression, training and support
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