Band 7 Dietitian

NHS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000

Job description

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Are you an enthusiastic and dynamic Dietitian with excellent team working skills? An exciting opportunity has arisen to cover a maternity leave to join our team of 11 medical Dietitians at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham. The successful candidate will carry a complex caseload of acute medical patients as well as supporting the team with expert knowledge and guidance in relation to complex nutritional support. This role is vital in implementing innovative pathways from the front door of the hospital as identifying patients at risk of malnutrition early is essential to improve outcomes throughout their admission. The post holder will be a team lead, working alongside another band 7 within the medical dietetic team, which is continually growing. The medical dietetic team covers a variety of inpatient specialities including stroke, respiratory, diabetes, acute medicine, and elderly care.

Due to the nature of the position, there will be much scope to complete research, audit, and showcase dietetics. The post holder will actively participate in development, education, and delivery of training to dietetic staff, healthcare professionals, and dietetic students. The trust strives to encourage research and innovation and is committed to providing opportunities to encourage professional and personal development.

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will lead a small team of Dietitians and Dietetic Assistants but will be part of the larger Dietetic team at the QE Hospital of over 60 Dietitians covering various specialities. You will work closely with therapy and nursing colleagues to develop the acute medical services and work closely with the Dietetic leads at UHB to continue to develop the dietetic service. You will be expected to operationally manage a team in a fast-paced environment, so good leadership is essential to this role.

The successful individual will take a lead role in the advanced assessment and treatment of a variety of complex patients, so the applicant must have significant Dietetic experience within a range of specialities including enteral feeding, oral nutritional support, and rehabilitation.

The post is for 12 months and 0.6wte.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this. Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment to offering flexible working where we can; offering our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reaches their true potential, achieves their ambitions, and thrives in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture that empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and enables people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected, and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job responsibilities

*Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person Specification

Qualifications

• *Evidence of relevant GCSE, NVQ, GNVQ, AS, and A levels
• *Degree in Nutrition and Dietetics or equivalent
• *Registration with HCPC

Experience

• Significant post-graduate experience in relevant specialist area
• Practical skill & in-depth experience in a multi-disciplinary setting in relevant specialist field evidenced by a learning portfolio and leading to advanced theoretical knowledge in area/s of clinical practice, which would be expected to be at a Masters level or equivalent
• Advanced specialist post-graduate training in relevant specialist area
• Significant to substantial postgraduate experience of working in a specialist capacity in multi-disciplinary teams in relevant specialties, leading to the acquisition of advanced theoretical knowledge and highly developed skills.
• Experience of training Dietetic students
• Evidence of relevant continued professional development in the following areas
• Clinical e.g.
• *accredited specialist training courses
• *attendance at specialist group meetings of BDA
• *Advanced Diploma in Dietetic Practice
• *attendance at relevant multi-disciplinary courses/conferences
• Teaching e.g.
• *clinical supervisory skills training for student training
• *cognitive behaviour therapy training (CBT)
• High level of knowledge gained through attendance at postgraduate specialist courses which would be expected to be at Masters Level or equivalent
• Significant post-registration experience at entry to post
• Specialist experience relevant to specialist area
• In-depth knowledge of research and audit
• In-depth knowledge of nutritional assessment/nutritional screening tools
• Knowledge and experience of all types of nutritional support
• Maintains excellent knowledge of clinical developments
• Requires working knowledge of IT/computer programmes
• Experience of teaching professional and patient groups
• Knowledge of standards of record keeping and medico-legal issues

Additional Criteria

• -Excellent interpersonal and team working skills
• -Ability to absorb, interpret and summarise complex verbal information
• -Ability to cope with a variety of personal and professional approaches to patient care
• -Ability to discuss and influence with healthcare professionals across multidisciplinary teams and other agencies
• -Ability to communicate where there are barriers to understanding in addition to any communication impairment e.g. psychological resistance to change, hostility, extreme distress, and grief
• -Ability to analyse, interpret and explain complex information on diagnosis, management plan, and their implications in a clear and precise manner to patients, their relatives, and members of the multi-professional team
• -Ability to use skills of persuasion, motivation, negotiation, and problem solving with colleagues, members of the multi-professional team, and other professionals on a daily basis
• -Ability to absorb, interpret and summarise verbal information in a pressurised clinical environment
• -Skills in planning treatment for patients with complex and changing needs
• -Ability to manage a dietetic team
• -Organisational skills with the ability to organise own workload and work in a systematic way
• -Excellent interpersonal and team working skills
• -Demonstrates interest and enthusiasm for nutrition
• -Motivated to develop the service
• -Flexibility in the approach to a day in the knowledge that pressure of demand and throughput of patients will impact on original aims of the day
• -Willingness to travel to all sites as required by the job role
• -Work onsite due to the clinical caseload

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.