Advanced Dietitian (Gastroenterology / Nutrition Support)
- aylesbury, england, United Kingdom
- Permanent
- Full time
- £49 - £57 Per Annum
Job Description
Advanced Dietitian (Gastroenterology / Nutrition Support)
Band 7
Main area Dietitian Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
Site Stoke Mandeville Hospital Town Aylesbury Salary £49,387 - £56,515 per annum pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 25/08/ :59
Be part of our BHT family
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.
We care for over half a million patients every year:
- Provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
- Nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
- Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
- Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.
More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.
We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.
We pride ourselves in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.
Job overview
This exciting new post is ideal for an experienced Dietitian with expertise in Gastroenterology, who will drive our Trust wide gastroenterology service. You will work closely with the Nutrition Team, the gastroenterology ward and the Trust’s dietetic department as part of a dynamic and supportive team in a busy district general hospital. The post will focus on:
· acute inpatient Gastroenterology, Critical Care and Parenteral Nutrition responsibilities
· Nutrition Team liaison to support decision making in complex nutrition support
· gastroenterology outpatient clinic
direct line management responsibilities
· Service develop and quality improvement projects
There will be an opportunity to further develop clinical and professional skills such as FODMAP training, and ongoing professional development, managerial and leadership skills.
We are a friendly team and offer great opportunities for learning and support through clinical supervision, peer learning and CPD opportunities including supporting B & C student placements. We are very supportive, valuing our staff, and actively promote staff wellbeing, inclusivity, and equality.
Our unique, integrated service consists of over 40 members of staff based at 4 locations across the county. Come and join our dynamic, proactive team and we will help you grow in skills, knowledge and expertise as you develop your dietetic career.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be an autonomous practitioner and act as a source of clinical expertise using high quality, evidence-based practise in the area of gastroenterology for inpatient and outpatient areas.
Provide specialised assessment, treatment, and support of patients in critical care, and in intestinal failure requiring dietetic treatment with other members of the Nutrition Team
Lead on service development and quality improvement initiatives in this specialist area including audit and research
To work as a member of the Nutrition & Dietetic Department, developing and leading on dietetic services for gastroenterology working across integrated services to achieve improved health outcomes for this patient co-hort.
To work autonomously, developing the dietetic service to ensure complex, nutrition support gastroenterology patients including those on artificial nutrition support, are met within in-patient and out-patient pathways at Stoke Mandeville Hospital
To work autonomously, building excellent communication and handover processes with community services to ensure seamless care for patients moving between acute and community care within the Gastroenterology pathway.
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
Alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement and pension scheme, you'll have access to NHS discount schemes.
We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
We are working hard to increase diversity at all levels within the trust. We believe a diverse workforce can have a positive effect on both staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
We welcome applications from black, Asian and minority ethnic candidates, LGBTQ+ candidates, candidates with disabilities and care-experienced candidates.
We make employment decisions by matching our service needs with the skills and experience of candidates, regardless of age, disability, gender, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
Person specification
Qualifications
- Degree or post-grad equivalent in Dietetics
- Post graduate qualification or equivalent in specialist area of nutritional support, gastroenterology, critical care, parenteral nutrition, PENG (equating to a module of master’s degree)
- Qualification in advanced communication skills or coaching
Skills, abilities, professional membership
- Working with a range of clinical conditions related to gastroenterology as well as critical care and parenteral nutrition
- Experience of developing, implementing and managing projects; quality improvement and service development.
- Significant experience of developing and implementing guidelines, protocols and strategies
- Evidence of leadership skills, including managing or supervising others.
- Knowledge of national polices and evidence relevant to clinical specialty
- Student training experience
- Ability to document and record accurate records in line with national standards
- Competent user of IT equipment & basic software (email, word processing, data input etc)
- experience of working within a MDT nutrition team
- Specialist knowledge of nutritional support including nutritional screening, food first principles, diet adaption for gastroenterological conditions including enteral feeding, disordered eating and EDS.
- Membership of the specialist group of the BDA and other relevant professional organisations.
- Membership of BDA.
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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.
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