Are you looking to develop your dietetic skills working with adults with a range of conditions in the acute setting ? This post is based within the Adult Nutrition and Dietetic team in Grimsby and is the ideal place to start or develop your practice as a Band 5 Dietitian.
The post-holder will be an essential team member within the service, working alongside experienced senior Dietitians, Dietetic Assistant Practitioner, Dietetic Assistant and the wider MDT.
You will receive ongoing informal and structured support from your senior colleagues, including support to complete your Preceptorship with a view to developing knowledge and skills where required. As you progress, you will have the opportunity for a high degree of autonomy in your clinical practice and day-to-day organisation of your work, within the context of a friendly and supportive team of dietetic colleagues. You will be encouraged to participate in service developments and will be able to access excellent training and support from the Trust's Quality Improvement team. There will also be opportunities to train other health care professionals and as your own clinical skills develop, you will become actively involved in student training with support to develop clinical supervisory skills.
Main duties of the job
Provide a high standard dietetic service undertaking all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
Be responsible for the caseload in a defined area of the service, supervising, and allocating work to assistants and students, as delegated.
Provide advice to other health care professionals as appropriate for level of skills.
Use clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based practice to provide a diagnosis and to develop and deliver treatment programmes.
Participate in evidence-based audit and research projects to further quality improvement in the service.
Meet with and keep to the HCPC Standards of Proficiency and Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics
Deputise for Band 6 dietitian when required.
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
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