Senior Dietitian (Diabetes)

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Job description

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

About

We are one of the largest acute and community providers in the West Midlands having more than 850 beds on the New Cross site.

We also have 56 rehabilitation beds at West Park Hospital and 54 beds at Cannock Chase Hospital.

We are the largest employer in Wolverhampton, the Trust employs more than 10,000 staff, covering more than 350 different roles.

• New Cross Hospital
• West Park Hospital rehabilitation inpatient and day care services, therapy services and outpatients
• Cannock Chase Hospital general surgery, orthopaedics, breast surgery, urology, dermatology/plastic surgery and medical day case investigations and treatment (including endoscopy, rheumatology and dermatology)
• More than 20 community sites - community services for children and adults, walk-in centres and therapy and rehabilitation services
• Primary care - Ten GP practices have now joined us and offer extended opening hours to patients.

Key details

Location

Site: New Cross Hospital
Town: Wolverhampton
Postcode: WV10 0QP
Major / Minor Region: Birmingham & The Black Country

Contract type & working pattern

Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Ideally three full days, but could work as four half days and one full day.)

Salary

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Grade: (Band 6)

Specialty

Main area: Senior Dietitian - Diabetes

Job overview

Are you a Registered Dietitian looking for an exciting new post? We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated Dietitian with experience and interest in diabetes.

The successful candidate will have excellent interpersonal and time management skills, together with an ability to be flexible and a commitment to MDT working. In return, we offer excellent development opportunities within the field of diabetes.

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Working autonomously and with the MDT undertake dietetic assessment and intervention to a caseload of patients with diabetes. The majority of these interventions will be in clinics and groups and include carbohydrate counting.

Working for our organisation

Our Nutrition & Dietetic Service has a staff of 40 who provide a service to the ethnically diverse populations of Wolverhampton & Cannock. The dietetic service comprises 6 clinical teams within the department, and our admin team provides good secretarial support. We provide excellent training & development opportunities for our team, and clinical placements for learners from Coventry and Birmingham City Universities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To assess, diagnose and treat nutrition related problems in patients with diabetes.
• Proactively educate and support patients & their health care team to optimise glycaemic control in the light of diabetes and other co-morbidities/complications.
• To work with the team to develop patient education resources.
• To contribute to MDT meetings to improve patient care, treatment and outcomes.
• To develop and arrange training for members of the multidisciplinary and dietetic team as required.
• To participate in the training of learners on clinical placement.
• To develop practice by undertaking journal clubs, audit and project work.

Applicant requirements

Warning: You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
Info: 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.

Person specification

Registration

Essential criteria

• Current HCPC registration as a Dietitian

Experience

Essential criteria

• Post-graduate learning/experience in a range of NHS/outsourced settings.

Desirable criteria

• Experience in training and developing others

Knowledge & skills

Essential criteria

• Experience & enthusiasm for working with patients who live with diabetes
• Excellent communication skills in English
• Experience with educating on carbohydrate counting

Desirable criteria

• Post registration training in diabetes

Documents

• Senior Dietitian JD & PS (, 856.5)PDFKB
• RWT Professional Standards (, 95.4)PDFKB
• Wolverhampton Map (, 600.9)PDFKB
• Trust Brochure (, 6.3)PDFMB
• Employee Rewards Booklet v.13 (, 1.6)PDFMB
• Flexible Working Commitment (, 1.1)PDFMB
• NHS Staff Offer - National Express (, 963.3)PDFKB
• Joint Behavioural Framework v1. 2024 (, 2.5)PDFMB

Further details / informal visits contact

Name: Kathryn Robinson
Job title: Head of Nutrition & Dietetics
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: 01902695335

If you would like to visit or discuss this vacancy, please get in touch.