Dietitian

The Nutrition and Dietetics Service at Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust is growing following investment and we are delighted to offer this opportunity to join our team.

Our belief is that dietitians, nutrition nurses and support staff:

• Enable recovery
• Empower quality of life
• Bring independence and dignity to our patients

We are looking for an innovative individual who is motivated by MDT working and keen to work in a growing department in a band 5 dietitian position working primarily with inpatients within elderly care, trauma and orthopaedics or general medicine with additional clinical attachment opportunities across surgery, stroke, medicine, gastro and oncology specialities and one community rotation working with people with a range of medical conditions on oral and enteral feeding pathways. All of our band 5 dietitian roles contain an outpatient element and are well supported by senior staff and peers.

Main duties of the job

This is a varied post providing a dietetic attachment and broad experience across the service providing you an opportunity to expand your dietetic knowledge and develop your passion for nutrition and dietetics across a range of working environments. We currently offer six monthly attachments, with four attachment options in the acute setting and one in the community setting. We tailor our attachments to the needs of the service and to you as a professional providing strong development opportunities into your speciality of preference or to receive a broad experience working in a number of areas department-wide.

Our attachments strongly align with the BDA preceptorship and we have a strong focus on continued professional development and peer support. Our team is supportive and friendly and all staff members joining the department are supported with internal and external training and development opportunities in addition to access to the nationally recognised Black Country preceptorship programme for newly qualified professionals. You would be joining our ambitious and forward-thinking therapies structure and existing band 5 dietitian team (working alongside seven band 5 dietitian peers).

About us

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:

1. Our People - to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
2. Our Patients - to be good or outstanding in everything we do
3. Our Population - to work seamlessly with our partners to improve life

Job description
Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails

You can hear from our team members in relation to what it is like to work for us:

Grace: https://youtu.be/aJRDXQBYnLU
Holly: https://youtu.be/CMYsnE3Hb1Q

Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential

• Degree/Post-graduate Diploma in Dietetics or Nutrition and Dietetics
• HCPC Registration

Desirable

• Member of BDA

Knowledge, Skills & Experience
Essential

• Completion of/ working towards completion of student dietitian placements/ experience transferable to UK clinical practice
• Broad knowledge of clinical dietetics and common conditions and able to link to relevance of dietetic input
• Demonstrable understanding of anthropometry and its indications
• Knowledge of BDA professional standards
• Understanding of clinical governance and its benefits i.e. audit/ incident reporting
• Ability to recognise limits of competence and know when to seek support from senior staff
• Clear, concise written communication

Desirable

• Experience of using an interpreter service for dietary consultations

Motivations
Essential

• Desire to work as a Dietitian in Sandwell and West Birmingham
• Desire to work as a Dietitian with clinical attachments

Experience
Essential

• Minimum of satisfactory completion of clinical placement as student dietitian during training

Employer details
Employer name
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
Address
SWB NHS Trust
Birmingham/Sandwell
B18 7QH

Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.

381-CT-6832926